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Cloudflare buys Human Native to flip the script on AI

January 15, 2026 by Brian Fagioli
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Cloudflare is acquiring Human Native, a startup that structures content for licensed AI training. The deal hints at a coming shift where creators decide how their work is used and finally get paid for it.

Categories Artificial Intelligence, Cloudflare Tags AI, Cloudflare, creators, data marketplace, Human Native, licensing, machine payments, publishers, training data Leave a comment

Cloudflare launches Content Signals Policy to fight AI crawlers and scrapers

September 24, 2025 by Brian Fagioli
Cloudflare Fights AI Scraper

Cloudflare is giving publishers and site owners a way to declare preferences on how AI companies use their content, expanding robots.txt with new policy language.

Categories Artificial Intelligence Tags AI crawlers, AI training, Cloudflare, Content Signals Policy, data scraping, Matthew Prince, open web, publishers, robots.txt, website owners Leave a comment

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