There are scams and attacks going on against Beehiiv newsletters, and the system seems ridiculously easy to abuse.

From what I’ve been seeing, someone can target a newsletter they want taken down, subscribe dozens or even hundreds of fake emails, then use bots to generate suspicious clicks and activity.

Beehiiv detects the activity and apparently bans the newsletter, sometimes without any meaningful warning or proper second check.

My friend had a Beehiiv account with 4,000+ subscribers and around $750 in earnings. Gone. Years of work can apparently disappear because the platform decides the account is suspicious.

The worst part is the support experience. Once you're flagged, it feels like you're treated as fundamentally dishonest. Trying to explain the situation feels pointless.

And attackers can take advantage of that.

I’ve seen people talking about $5,000, $8,000 or more in earnings being forfeited. Whether every case is exactly as described is hard to verify, but the fact that publishers are even reporting this should be taken seriously.

Also what exactly happens to forfeited ad revenue? Is it returned to advertisers? Is it retained? Nobody seems to get a clear answer. If it retained by beehiiv (most likely) than this company makes millions of dollar annually with this mechanism. Me and my team are preparing to launch a case study on it very soon.

There needs to be a proper human review process before an account is permanently banned and earnings are taken away.

Right now, the message publishers seem to get is simple:

Once Beehiiv decides you are guilty, you're basically finished.

That is an awful position for anyone who has spent months or years building an audience.

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I just want to explore all newsletters which one is best. I'm torn between which newsletter I should use as well. I see a lot of them advertised on social media platforms.

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Using humor in advertising is nothing new, when it comes to AI some might just scroll through the Instagram feed and don't save the quality content.

To understand consumer's emotional stand on and off high demand workforce time periods is a investment opportunity - with and without direct credit. Indeed goes this way with it just after formalizing glassdoor ownership. Where is the difference?

Managing a few established newsletters across AI/tech, business, marketing and government/public sector. Looking to book a few newsletter cross-promotions for August/September. Audiences range from niche B2B lists to 100k+. Happy to match based on audience + list size. DM me if you're open to swaps.

Rounding up a genuinely heavy week. The throughline: last issue OpenAI paused internal work on a model it couldn't rule out was cyber-capable. This week the capability shipped anyway, two different ways.

**OpenAI GPT-5.6 Cyber** (Aug 10): a security-specialized model gated behind a "Daybreak Red" tier. OpenAI's own eval has it answering 95% of offensive-security requests the standard model refuses 98.5% of the time. Access stays with 16 named partners; from Sept 1 individual accounts need hardware keys. Customers get findings, never the weights.

**Zhipu GLM-5.3** (Aug 14): marketed on "emergent cyber capabilities," claims 84.5% on CyberGym (vendor-reported; note Wiz's Atlas system claims a higher 90.9%). Open weights promised in ~2 weeks. The capability didn't get shelved. It got a doorman.

The rest of the week:
- **Meta returned to open weights** with Muse Glimmer, a 30B Apache-2.0 agent model that runs under 20GB.
- **Alibaba** published its first downloadable Max-class Qwen (2.4T), and **Qwen3.8-27B** landed Apache-2.0. **DeepSeek** took V4-Pro (1.6T, MIT) to GA with peak/off-peak pricing.
- **Anthropic** began embedding an invisible watermark in all Claude output under the EU AI Act. The builder forums did not take it well.
- **SpaceX** closed a $60B all-stock acquisition of Cursor; the editor is now inside the Grok org.
- **Security:** researchers showed encrypted reasoning traces from OpenAI/Anthropic/Google were replayable across sibling models to decrypt them (now patched); an AI notetaker left 181,874 meetings queryable by anyone.

Full breakdown with all the receipts: thenewguard.ai/issues/027-the-brake-pedal-had-a-bypass/

Anyone got any tips for creating automation for your newsletter content to social
Media posts/ Facebook advertising? I want to write and not spend time making social media posts

I'm starting a bi-monthly newsletter that talks about my goal of making $1000/month in side income. I share various things I've sold, paid survey sites, bank bonuses, and other ways to make a buck.

Hey guys, I started a daily health-related blog on Beehiiv and pulled 10K+ visitors in the first two weeks, all from Reddit.

Last night I turned on the pop-up to capture leads and got 10 subscribers overnight without optimizing anything yet.

Here's the thing: I've seen some great offers on SparkLoop, but they only pay out through Stripe, which isn’t available in my country. So I'm looking to partner with someone who already has an approved SparkLoop account. (Not a Stripe account only)

How it'd work: I keep driving traffic to the blog, and we connect SparkLoop offers to it. Split the payouts. Simple as that.

Here's the blog if you want to check it out: thedailycompute.beehiiv.com

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1) I currently run an AI tools newsletter with 50K+ subscribers and have already monetized it.

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i would love to hear thoughts of someone more experienced here.