He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Roblox is launching and open-sourcing Cube 3D, the first version of its foundational AI model for generating 3D objects.

They were making houses or ships or scenery, and they wanted to jump in, and all of that learning was the germination of Roblox," he says. The name Roblox was a mash-up of the words "robot" and ...