Weekly News Digest

OnlyFans said the word "IPO" out loud, a California judge refused to ship its auto-renew class action to London, and Passes reportedly lost its CEO in the same week. Underneath the headlines, two numbers matter more than...

OnlyFans finally put a discovery surface inside the main app, and it is built on OFTV. The UK set a hard date for its ban on choking, incest and age-play porn, a federal appeals court cleared social media age checks in F...

OnlyFans spent the week tightening the screws from two directions: a rewritten Terms of Service that lands November 1 and lets the platform freeze accounts on a "may have breached" standard, and a group claim filed in En...

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...