Blog Security AI Pulse: How Big Tech Impacts AI Bot Traffic Rob Lester is a Data Scientist at Akamai. He is researching the application security environment and Layer 7 traffic at large, including the role of AI products. Additional commentary by Emily Lyons Welcome back to AI Pulse, the blog series in which we share data insights on the state of AI bots. In this fourth post in our series, we are diving into AI bot traffic across the tech giants: Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and others. If you missed any of the previous posts, check out AI Pulse: OpenAI’s Wild Bot Behavior After GPT-5,   AI Pulse: AI Bot Mitigation Is Increasing Everywhere , and AI Pulse: What Circadian Rhythms Reveal About AI Bot Behavior now. Tech giants account for less AI bot traffic than you’d expect Since we started sharing AI bot insights, you may have noticed some potentially unexpected distribution of traffic among different sources.…