The team behind livestreaming platform Kick, founded by Bijan Tehrani and Ed Craven, is launching Club, a new ad-free app that takes a 20% cut of creator payments and aims to help creators build fan c…
MacSurf's latest Patreon post, titled 'Retro Computing and AI Assisted Coding,' discusses the intersection of retro computing and AI-assisted coding, though no specific figures or outcomes are provide…
Patreon cut 93 employees, about 20% of its workforce, on Thursday, but CEO Jack Conte insisted the layoffs are not because AI is replacing humans. Conte said the company needs a leaner cost base to na…
Patreon is cutting 93 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, in a restructuring aimed at flattening management and focusing on core priorities, CEO Jack Conte told employees in a memo today. Conte insisted th…
Intel reported second-quarter revenue growth of 25%, its largest gain since 2011, after the federal government pushed favorable long-term contracts on the chipmaker. Monday.com announced it will cut ~…
Patreon laid off 20 percent of its workforce, cutting 93 jobs, as CEO Jack Conte cited AI-driven industry transformation and the need for internal reorganization. Conte emphasized that the layoffs are…
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff, or 93 employees, according to a blog post from CEO Jack Conte. The company is restructuring to become a "stable, dependable rock" for creators, offering …
Patreon laid off about 20% of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, on July 23, 2026, with CEO Jack Conte citing AI as the forcing function in a memo to staff. Affected employees will receive 16 wee…
Patreon is laying off 93 employees, 20% of its workforce, as CEO Jack Conte restructures the company around AI-era operations. Conte told staff and creators that AI has 'fundamentally transformed the …
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workforce, or around 93 employees, CEO Jack Conte announced in a memo. Conte said the cuts are not because AI replaces humans but because AI has "fundamentally …
Patreon has conducted layoffs as part of a shift toward an AI-first deployment strategy, where a lean team using LLM agents and automated coding tools can handle the workload of a larger legacy team. …
The Oversight Board has selected a case involving an AI-generated video of a Buddhist monk that appears to be part of the Walk for Peace march, asking for support with a link to a Patreon page, to exa…
Jack Conte, founder and CEO of Patreon and member of Pomplamoose, delivered a keynote arguing that AI is not a threat to creativity but a transformative tool, comparing it to the historical resistance…
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping content on its platform, CEO Jack Conte announced on Instagram. The network-level protection applies to all posts publ…
Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick and co-founder of WIRED, argues in a 2026 update of his 2008 essay "Better Than Free" that when AI makes perfect copies of creative work free and abundant, creators must s…
Patreon CEO Jack Conte expressed cautious optimism about AI's impact on creators, stating that while AI poses risks to creative work, it also offers opportunities for new forms of expression and monet…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to deploy Crawl Control technology that blocks known AI training crawlers while allowing legitimate search bots, a move CEO Jack Conte framed as about creator consent…
Patreon announced Thursday it is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI training bots from scraping creators' content, moving beyond its previous robots.txt requests after finding that AI crawle…
Patreon partnered with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers from scraping creators' content without permission, compensation, or credit. CEO Jack Conte announced the network-level protection on al…
GamingOnLinux, a reader-funded site approaching its 17th anniversary, is urging its community for financial support to sustain operations amid rising paywalls and AI scraping. The site aims to reach $…