Additional commentary by Emily Lyons Introducing AI Pulse We’re excited to launch AI Pulse, a blog series that takes a look at the current state of AI bots.  Akamai protects the world’s largest organizations, which gives us unmatched visibility into billions of AI bot requests every single day. These bots are reshaping the internet in real time, and we see them at a scale no one else can. In this series of eight blog posts, we will share key insights from that traffic — diving into who the bots are, what they want, and how they behave. The woolly mammoth: OpenAI Since the start of 2025, we’ve observed AI bot traffic increasing dramatically across web apps and APIs, rising nearly 300% year to date. Across our customers, OpenAI (inclusive of ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, and OAI-SearchBot) produces the majority of AI bot traffic.  So,  we’re kicking off our AI Pulse series by investigating the woolly mammoth of all AI companies: OpenAI.…