VLGE is making it easier to world build and shop on Roblox

Fifty fashion brands are launching their shoppable worlds for VLGE's World Fashion Week, founder Evelyn Mora says.
Wired

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...

3 Things Roblox Must Get Right to Become a Profitable Company

Roblox has no trouble attracting players, but profitability is another story. With steep losses and a premium valuation, ...
ZDNet

Microsoft Copilot now offers Claude models - how to try them

Microsoft's Researcher agent can now be powered by Claude Opus 4.1. Anthropic's models are also now available in Copilot Studio. Microsoft has been distancing itself from its dependence on OpenAI.

'A threat to creative expression and social progress': Advocacy groups respond to Roblox's new 'sensitive issues' label

Women in Games, Out Making Games, and BAME in Games call for transparent age ratings rather than vague "sensitive issues" ...
GamesRadar+

Hideo Kojima wants to "scan a ghost" into OD, but he already recorded the ghost in his studio and "that's why we went to the shrine together with Microsoft" to make sure the ...

Horror Games Hideo Kojima wanted to "make you s*** your pants" with the now-canceled Silent Hills, and now he's trying to do it again over 10 years later with his new horror game OD: "It's really ...
AOL

AI models are already as good as experts at half of tasks, a new OpenAI benchmark suggests

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…A new OpenAI benchmark shows how good models are getting at completing professional tasks…California has a new AI law…OpenAI rolls out Instant Purchases ...
The Irish Times

Olivia Dean: ‘Why do I have to be in distress to make good music? Why can’t I just be happy?’

Olivia Dean has mixed feelings about dating apps. “There’s lots of success stories. But what they do is inspire this culture of people being disposable,” the London soul singer says. Apps encourage ...
The Boston Globe

How to save MassHealth from Trump’s cuts — and improve health care for everyone in the process

Jake Auchincloss is the representative for Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District. MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, is experiencing what hospitals would call code gray — an assault on the ...
Columbia Daily Tribune

What are Missouri football’s odds to make CFP field, SEC title game? What the models say

At the first pitstop of the season, let’s check in on the Tigers’ standing for the postseason. Missouri football, which is currently working through its first of two idle weeks this season, has opened ...

'Sesame Street' is coming to Roblox

"The Sesame Workshop team understands the great power of meeting learners where they are, not just by showing up on Roblox, ...
GamesRadar+

Toby Fox says the "smart" way to make games is reusing what you can, but the way he makes Deltarune is "stupid": "Everything in the game is simply a container for a never ...

RPGs Toby Fox doesn't think Deltarune Chapter 5 "will be released in the first half of 2026" but there's some good news: "we don't have any external factors surrounding the release date this time.