Weekly News Digest

Legal and money weeks don't get much denser than this one: Aylo put $120 million on the table to close out the 2021 Pornhub class actions, ByteDance signed Hollywood's first AI copyright pact covering Seedance, and Round...

The week's biggest story is OnlyFans getting dragged into federal court over the referral program that built the platform, with real money implications for anyone who ever recruited a creator. Around it: Texas started en...

Three threads defined the week. AI image tooling took another visible step up with xAI shipping Grok Imagine Image 2.0, the legal vise on adult content kept tightening as Pornhub went on the offensive against 27 states a...

Quiet week on the platform-policy front, with one big exception: X formally opened the door to AI-generated adult content, as long as you label it. That reshapes how AI creators can run promo on the biggest open traffic...

AI tooling ran the week. Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its top model, Black Forest Labs shipped FLUX 3 (one model for image, video and audio), and Meta plus Instagram pushed a stack of creator-faci...

Enforcement, not features, defined the week. X started rerouting stolen-post revenue to original creators, Reddit locked NSFW discovery behind EU age checks, and Missouri became the 27th state to sign a porn age-verifica...

Two numbers framed this week: Fanvue's $200M run rate and August 2, the date EU deepfake-labeling rules go live. Meta had the messiest seven days, launching an AI image tool that let anyone remix strangers' Instagram pho...

The subscription platforms sat still this week. OnlyFans, Fansly and Fanvue shipped nothing new, while the AI production stack sprinted: ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 entered public launch with 30-second one-shot video, Elon...

This week was dominated by one story: a bombshell investigation from The Information revealing xAI deliberately built Grok into the world's largest AI adult content platform — with 10 billion images and 2 billion videos...