Cloudflare’s Human Native acquisition signals a new content economy for publishers

January 27, 2026

By Jessica Davies Cloudflare’s move to bring AI startup Human Native into its stack signals a turning point: licensed, structured content could become a foundation for a more sustainable AI economy.

While the ink is pretty fresh on the acquisition, announced on Jan. 15, several media experts and publishers regard it as a signal for how Cloudflare plans to help build an infrastructure for the AI content economy.

And Human Native’s platform addresses a vital part of the AI compensation struggle publishers have had to date: incentives for AI developers to opt in.Continue reading this article on digiday.com. Sign up for Digiday newsletters to get the latest on media, marketing and the future of TV. …read more

Source:: Digiday