APAC Logs 10.5bn AI-Bot Hits In Two Months

Akamai’s State of the Internet report revealed that Asia-Pacific businesses encountered more than 10.5bn AI-bot triggers in just two months, as bot activity surged 300% year-on-year. The region accounted for roughly one-fifth of global traffic, second only to North America. India led with 3.2 billion triggers, followed by Japan (2.8 billion), China (1.7 billion), and Singapore (899 million). Commerce accounted for 47% of APAC AI-bot activity, with retail making up nearly three-quarters of that segment. Training bots represented 73.7% of total regional activity. The report said scraping-heavy traffic skews analytics, strains infrastructure, and reduces ad revenue, even as some bots aid indexing and accessibility. Akamai found that companies in APAC monitored 98.6% of AI-bot traffic compared with 91.1% in North America, showing heightened vigilance against phishing, impersonation, and fraud risks linked to APAC AI bots.