Weekly News Digest

Voice AI owned the week: ElevenLabs shipped v4 with 10-second cloning on Monday and doubled its valuation to $22B by Wednesday, then Microsoft walked in Thursday with a cheaper clone-capable model. Kling announced 4.0 wi...

OnlyFans' CEO spent Thursday in New York telling a mainstream business crowd that the platform is becoming a "Shopify for content" and is heading into financial services, while a federal courtroom in Hartford produced th...

Regulators owned this week: California signed the toughest chatbot and under-16 social laws in the country, X quietly rewrote its terms to block class actions, and Ofcom's first big age-check fine started to bite. Meanwh...

The courts and statehouses did most of the talking this week. A federal judge kept Minnesota's nudify ban fully enforceable over xAI's objections, California sent a universal age-assurance law to Newsom's desk, and Utah...

OnlyFans opened its books this week and the numbers dominated every conversation: $6.3 billion paid to creators last fiscal year, 5,076 lifetime millionaires, and $709 million in dividends to the late owner. Buried under...

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...