Netflix Buys Ready Player Me, an Avatar-Creation Developer, to Let Users Make Their Own Gaming Personas

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform.

I got an up-close look at Roblox's new safety feature. Here's what I found.

I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify ...

She just wanted to play Roblox with friends. Then the messages from a predator began.

Roblox is one of the world’s most popular kids’ games, but lawsuits around the country allege predators are hiding in plain sight.

As Hollywood Navigates Roblox and Fortnite, What’s Working — and What Isn’t

How Roblox and Fortnite are being utilized by Hollywood studios to spread brand awareness, even as safety proves to be an ...
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Roblox Isn’t Playing Games. Why the Stock Could Jump 50%.

In September, a quirky game called Steal a Brainrot hosted 25 million players at the same time on Roblox’s global platform, surpassing a record set just months earlier by Roblox’s prior hit, Grow a ...
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Running Your Own Local Open-Source AI Model Is Easy—Here's How

If you’re not a developer, then why in the world would you want to run an open-source AI model on your home computer? It turns out there are a number of good reasons. And with free, open-source models ...
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Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun To Depart And Launch AI Start-Up Focused On 'World Models'

(RTTNews) - Meta's (META) chief artificial intelligence scientist, Yann LeCun, plans to leave the company to launch his own AI start-up, marking a major shift inside Meta as CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...