Additional commentary by Emily Lyons Welcome back to AI Pulse, our blog series in which we share data insights on the state of AI bots.  If you missed any of the previous blog posts in the AI Pulse series, check out OpenAI’s Wild Bot Behavior After GPT-5,   AI Bot Mitigation Is Increasing Everywhere , What Circadian Rhythms Reveal About AI Bot Behavior , and How Big Tech Impacts AI Bot Traffic now. This post’s insights are all about AI bots’ favorite targets — with a breakdown by industry, AI bot types, and more. We also discuss mitigation and how the most targeted industries are responding. AI bots definitely play favorites Since we began tracking AI bot traffic, clear patterns have emerged, recognizing that some industries attract far more activity than others. With our newly formalized AI bot categorization, we’ve been able to dig deeper to understand which types of AI bots target specific sectors, and why. Figure 1 shows the distribution of AI bot traffic across Akamai’s network.…