Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Cloudflare, a company that protects websites and makes internet traffic faster, found that bots now make up more than half of all internet traffic, with the numbers growing as AI companies scrape web content and deploy AI agents. Cloudflare sits between websites and these bots, allowing website owners to block AI tools, allow them, or only permit those that pay for access. The company is also using AI internally, having recently laid off over 1,000 employees (20% of staff) and replacing some of those roles with AI systems.