Agents are becoming the internet's primary consumers, reshaping traffic economics
illscience · x · 2026-09-22
After 20 years of Google intermediating consumer internet traffic, companies are now scrambling to figure out how to be on the right side of a new traffic-for-margin trade, as AI agents rapidly become the primary consumers on the internet — a seismic shift is coming.
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