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Tech's Wild West: Roblox Grows Up, Bing Bot Goes Rogue, Loyalty Flatlines

Roblox is making a push to attract more adult players to its platform, according to a report by The Verge on February 5, 2026. The company is prioritizing high-fidelity shooters, RPGs, sports, and racing games to appeal to users over 18, following the rollout of age verification in the past year.

Roblox's 2025 year-end earnings report indicated that 45 percent of its daily active users are over the age of 18. This shift in strategy aims to further expand its adult user base.

In other tech news, Hamster Corporation is stepping in to fill a void left by Nintendo by offering downloadable versions of retro console games for direct individual purchase on the Switch 2, Ars Technica reported. This comes after Nintendo discontinued its Virtual Console, replacing it with time-limited access through a paid Nintendo Switch Online subscription in 2018. The new "Console Archives" line of emulated classics will be available on the Switch 2 starting today and on the PlayStation 5 next week.

OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its coding model, according to Ars Technica. The model will be accessible via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and a new macOS desktop app. OpenAI claims that GPT-5.3-Codex outperforms previous versions in benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. The company envisions the model being used for managing deployments and debugging, similar to applications in enterprise software development.

Meanwhile, Neocities founder was dealing with the fallout after Bing inexplicably blocked approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on the platform, Ars Technica reported. Neocities, founded in 2013, allows users to design free websites without standardized templates.

Silicon Valley is experiencing a period of intense talent acquisition, particularly in the field of AI, Wired reported. Meta invested over $14 billion in Scale AI and brought on its CEO, Alexandr Wang. Google spent $2.4 billion to license Windsurf's technology and integrate its team into DeepMind. Nvidia wagered $20 billion on Groq's inference technology and hired its CEO and other staff. OpenAI recently rehired several researchers who had left to join Mira Muratis' startup, Thinking Machines.

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