The Bots Have Won The Web!

Bots passed human web traffic for the first time, per Cloudflare's CEO. The S&P 500 rejected fast-entry for mega-cap IPOs like SpaceX. Anthropic embedded engineers at the NSA, Meta hid face-recognition code in its app, and Cambridge trialed the first AI-designed vaccine.

• Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Tom's Hardware)
• S&P Dow Jones rejects proposals to expedite S&P 500 eligibility for mega-cap IPOs such as SpaceX's; companies remain ineligible until one year after their IPOs (Bloomberg)
• Sources: Anthropic has embedded around half a dozen forward-deployed engineers within the NSA to help the agency deploy Mythos for offensive cyber operations (FT)
• Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI smart glasses over multiple Meta AI app updates in 2026 (Wired)
• University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (BBC)

Longreads

• A preview of what to expect from WWDC on Monday, including iOS 27, a revamped Siri, macOS 27 Liquid Glass refinements, and more (Bloomberg)
• Ted Chiang argues LLM conversations are cleverly disguised sentence continuation, not consciousness, and that no intrinsic property of neural networks suggests otherwise (The Atlantic)

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