Weekly News Digest

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...

This week's headline is ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 — a Chinese AI video generator so good that Hollywood immediately went to war over it, and agencies should be paying close attention to the creative (and competitive) impl...

This week was defined by two forces converging: mainstream culture absorbing the creator economy (an A-list Apple TV show literally centered on OnlyFans), and AI's deepening grip on how adult content is created, dis...