Blog Security AI Pulse: How AI Bots Surface Your Content Tom Emmons is a data enthusiast who leads a team focused on machine learning and automation at Akamai. His areas of security expertise are in DDoS and application security. Additional commentary by Emily Lyons Welcome back to another edition of AI Pulse, our blog series where we share AI bot traffic insights observed across the Akamai network. If you missed any of the previous blog posts in the AI Pulse series, be sure to check them out. For our final post of the year, we’re digging into two often overlooked topics: how AI bots actually surface content, and the persistent challenge of evasive scrapers. (And don’t worry; the AI Pulse series will be back in 2026.) If your content is online, AI will likely try to find it Many businesses still feel their content is unique. They assume it is different enough or gated enough that it will be excluded from AI systems.…