Roblox is making a push to attract more adult players to its platform, according to its 2025 year-end earnings report. The company, which rolled out age verification last year, is prioritizing high-fidelity shooters, RPGs, sports, and racing games to appeal to players over 18, The Verge reported.
The move comes as Roblox seeks to expand its user base beyond its traditionally younger demographic. The report indicated that 45 percent of Roblox's daily active users are already over the age of 18.
In other news, the AI industry continues to see significant investment and development. Amazon projects $200 billion in capital expenditures through 2026 across AI, chips, robotics, and low earth orbit satellites, according to its recent earnings announcement, TechCrunch reported. This is up from $131.8 billion in capex in 2025. This investment positions Amazon as a leader in the AI capex race, alongside companies like Google.
Reddit is also looking to capitalize on AI, suggesting its AI-powered search engine could be a major opportunity for its business. During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, Reddit hinted that search, while not yet monetized, represents an "enormous market and opportunity." CEO Steve Huffman stated that generative AI search will be particularly beneficial for queries requiring multiple perspectives, an area where Reddit believes it excels. "Theres a type of query were, I think, particularly good at I would argue, the best on the internet which is questions that have no answers, where the answer actually is multiple perspectives from lots of people," Huffman said, according to TechCrunch.
However, some venture capitalists are urging caution amidst the AI boom. Jennifer Li, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, warned against fixating solely on annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth. "Not all ARR is created equal, and not all growth is equal either," Li said on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, emphasizing that the focus should be on sustainable and meaningful growth rather than simply chasing high ARR numbers.
Meanwhile, Sapiom, a San Francisco startup, raised $15 million to help AI agents integrate with external tech services. Founded by Ilan Zerbib, formerly Shopify's director of engineering for payments, Sapiom aims to simplify the process of connecting AI applications with services like SMS, email, and payment processing, TechCrunch reported. This could eliminate back-end infrastructure headaches for nontechnical creators using prompt-to-code tools.
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