Cloudflare acquired Human Native on January 15, 2026. The London startup had built a marketplace connecting content owners with AI companies seeking training data. The deal completes an 18-month infrastructure build, but the strategic question remains: is Cloudflare operating a toll booth that charges for passage, a warehouse that aggregatesContinue Reading
You can listen to the article here ( ~ 15 minutes): For 150 years, photography’s power rested on a simple fact: cameras don’t explain, they describe. Now we’re building systems that do both, and the implications for everyone who creates, manages, or verifies visual content are just starting toContinue Reading
AI Everywhere, But Not All the Time Every October in San Francisco, where robot taxis are busily roaming the streets, something peculiar happens. The photography industry’s old guard—print manufacturers, stock agencies, software makers—sits down with its new blood: the brilliant engineers building AI-powered photo services, mobile apps, editing tools, andContinue Reading
The industry finally stopped theorizing and started building the infrastructure to preserve truth itself We’ve reached the inflection point. Not the one we’ll read about in retrospect, but the one happening right now—where the exponential flood of AI-generated content threatens to drown out any meaningful signal of authenticity. The WorldContinue Reading
You used to prove your identity with a password. Now you need to prove you’re not synthetic. The alarm bells started ringing in Hong Kong when an employee transferred $25 million to fraudsters during what appeared to be a routine video conference with colleagues and the CFO. The twist? EveryoneContinue Reading
Six years ago, a group of concerned publishers and a formidable creative software company, well-versed in the manipulation of digital content, joined forces to develop what may be the most important and underestimated standard of this generation. Ironically, this was before the rise of Generative AI. Since then, three summitsContinue Reading
More and more businesses are waking up to a critical risk: manipulated visual content can inflict lasting damage on brand reputation, customer trust, and ultimately, the bottom line. What was once primarily a concern for news organizations has now become a pressing issue for any company using images and videoContinue Reading
In the fast-paced world of online retail, visuals aren’t merely a factor—they’re decisive. As e-commerce continues to dominate consumer habits, the way products are photographed, edited, and displayed has become an urgent priority. But beneath the surface, a quiet revolution is underway. The recent Photoroom report, Clothing Photography and PhotoContinue Reading
What if every photograph that could ever be taken already exists? Not in the sense that someone has already captured them, but in the sense that they are all possible, waiting to be revealed. How AI Generates Images: Deconstructing and Reassembling Reality Generative AI doesn’t “copy” images from its trainingContinue Reading
In today’s hyper-connected world, we’re facing an unprecedented deluge of digital content. From photos and videos to articles, books, and music, the sheer volume of available material is staggering. But what happens when there’s simply too much content? The Content Explosion: By the Numbers To truly grasp the scale ofContinue Reading