AI agents tripled web traffic in a month. Now sites are fighting back
Meta's Muse hit 5M downloads as agent traffic surged, but Amazon, Yelp, and Pizza Hut are blocking the bots while Shopify rolls out the red carpet.
By Mohammed Al-Shehri·· 3 min

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