Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education
Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.
Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring
Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring
New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology
Sources: some OpenAI executives were surprised by a WSJ report that OpenAI was aiming to IPO in December; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026
The maker of ChatGPT hopes to triple its revenue in the coming year because it is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars.
Anthropic raised a $30B Series G led by GIC and Coatue and co-led by D. E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, Iconiq, and MGX at a $380B post-money valuation
We have raised $30 billion in Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion post-money. The round was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founder...
Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic; the growing trend of backing rival startups, once taboo, shows how AI has scrambled funding
Silicon Valley investors are breaking a longstanding taboo by investing in competing startups.
A look at Tether's global expansion, after it recently hit ~300 staff; sources describe Tether's internal focus on corporate structures and “profit and loss”
One of crypto's biggest players has grand plans to deploy its large profits — Tether has expanded …
Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more
The company pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't safe, records show.
Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more
The company pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't safe, records show.
Some YouTube creators are using AI tools to make videos for kids and babies, raising concerns that such AI content may negatively impact early brain development
As younger children spend more time on the platform, concern is growing that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos purporting to be educational.
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is building a “new category of work”; Mercor hit a $500M ARR in September and pays contractors ~$1.5M/day
Plus, perimenopause apps, Musk's mammoth pay package … X: Kevin V. Nguyen / @kevinnguyen_89 : There are a lot of young people in their early 20s running around in San Francisco rn ...
Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more
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Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps
Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they're asked to pay up. X: @dealbook . LinkedIn: Kay Dean and Naina Hira...
On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fan...
A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. X: @richardjnieva . LinkedIn: Sundeep Peechu and Peter Fenton . Bluesky: @dannygro...
A look at newsletter platform Beehiiv, which has a $30M ARR and fees starting at $43/month for 1,000 subscribers, unlike Substack, which takes a 10% revenue cut
Not for the first time, the newsletter platform Substack … Bluesky: Danny Groner / @dannygroner : “The scheme seems to be working: The Media Collective currently supports 20 to 25 ...
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations
www.ft.com/content/99b6... #ai #entryjobs Christopher Mims / @mims : Great piece, data do not support “AI is taking all the jobs” — “AI may be part of the picture but other facto...
The AI arms race between employers and jobseekers isn't going well for anyone, as applicants turn to GenAI to speed up a process that already felt dehumanized
www.ft.com/content/43cd... Colm Murphy / @colmpm : Some interesting parallels in this @sarahoconnorft.ft.com piece on hiring with some of the dilemmas we face in higher education. ...
Sources detail how Jeff Bezos made peace with Donald Trump; many pointed to Amazon losing the $10B JEDI contract during Trump's first term as a watershed moment
In the past year, the Amazon founder has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with the president that has surprised even longtime associates