Weekly News Digest

Week of May 25–31, 2026 — The Brief Quiet platform week, loud security week. The alleged 340M-record OnlyFans dataset hitting dark web forums dominated chatter — even though it almost certainly isn't a fresh platform br...

This week was all about the Take It Down Act becoming reality. The federal compliance deadline lands May 19, meaning every platform you operate on — OnlyFans, Fansly, Fanvue, even your traffic sources — must now run a 48...

Overview: A quiet week for OnlyFans on the surface, but loud underneath — the Take It Down Act's platform compliance deadline lands May 19, the EU just hammered nudify apps into oblivion, and Instagram simultaneously kil...

Quiet-but-loaded week. OnlyFans is clearly prepping for a sale (new general counsel from Skadden's M&A bench), the AI video stack just got two new toys creators will actually use (Pika Agents and Alibaba's HappyHorse...

The biggest story this week is the OnlyFans $3B stake sale to Architect Capital — a deal that reshapes platform ownership and signals incoming financial services for creators. Meanwhile, Euphoria Season 3's OnlyFans stor...

A quieter week on the surface, but some meaningful shifts underneath. The Sora shutdown's ripple effects are still being felt across AI video workflows, Canada is escalating pressure on deepfake-generating AI with formal...

This was the week OpenAI fully retreated from adult content, OnlyFans grappled with leadership uncertainty after Radvinsky's death, and the AI-powered adult ecosystem continued to expand without the big tech players. The...

This week's story is legal precedent, data reports, and platform signals. A Texas court ruled that commercially distributed adult content doesn't qualify for "revenge porn" protection — a ruling that directly weakens cre...

This week was dominated by two seismic stories: OpenAI clearing the internal decks for ChatGPT's "Adult Mode" (including firing the VP who opposed it), and Hollywood going nuclear on ByteDance over Seedance 2.0's brazen...