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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business After years of working to build their audiences on OnlyFans, a number of sex workers and adult content creators are now grappling with the sudden blow of potentially losing their incomes and access to the fans who have paid their bills. OnlyFans, a subscription-based website that enables creators to

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Thursday’s decision by the creator platform OnlyFans to soon stop hosting a wide swath of sexually explicit content is sending shockwaves through the internet. OnlyFans, a website with 130 million users and more than 2 million content creators, has become synonymous with pornography. For many, performing on the app is

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Gopuff, a startup that originally launched to offer hookah deliveries for college students and later food deliveries to help satisfy the munchies, is rapidly establishing itself as the future of the on-demand industry. The Philadelphia-based company has announced raising billions of dollars from investors to grow its on-demand delivery

By Steven Jiang and Jill Disis, CNN Business China has passed sweeping new rules about the collection and use of personal data as Beijing toughens its regulation of the country’s tech companies. The Personal Information Protection Law — which was approved Friday by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and which will take

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Elon Musk said Thursday night at Tesla’s AI Day that the company is building a humanoid robot, and will probably have a prototype next year. “It’s basically going to start dealing with work that is boring, repetitive and dangerous,” Musk said of the Tesla robot. “What is the work that

By Rob McLean and Jill Disis, CNN Business OnlyFans is banning sexually explicit content starting in October, the company announced Thursday. “In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform, and to continue to host an inclusive community of creators and fans, we must evolve our content guidelines,” the company said in a statement,

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the two wealthiest people on this planet, both want to be center stage when NASA returns astronauts to the moon. But NASA only has enough money for one of them, and it went with Musk’s SpaceX. That means Bezos’ Blue Origin is mad. Both of

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The Federal Trade Commission renewed its bid to break up Facebook on Thursday by filing an amended complaint in federal court alleging the tech giant has monopolized social media and harmed competition. The new complaint comes nearly two months after a federal judge tossed out the original complaint, arguing that

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business For those who don’t think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you’re sitting around a table in a conference room. On Thursday, Facebook unveiled Horizon Workrooms, a free app

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s crackdown on private business has taken a new, more intrusive turn with government plans to dictate how live-stream shopping influencers speak and dress. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday outlined proposals for an “industry standard” for live-streamers who market products on online shopping platforms. The rules include details

By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Facebook on Wednesday announced that it had taken action against the so-called “disinformation dozen,” one month after the White House singled out the twelve people and argued that they were responsible for a majority of coronavirus misinformation. In making the announcement, Monika Bickert, vice president of content policy at Facebook,

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla’s Autopilot feature could soon face its second federal probe of the month. The automaker’s driver-assist and traffic-aware cruise control features are already under investigation by federal safety regulators for their role in a series of crashes. On Wednesday Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Edward Markey of Massachusetts asked

By Brian Fung, CNN Business Tens of millions of current, former or prospective T-Mobile customers’ personal information has been leaked to hackers, the wireless carrier said Tuesday, disclosing further details on a data breach it has been investigating since the weekend. The breach affects as many as 7.8 million postpaid subscribers, 850,000 prepaid customers and