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Roblox agrees to pay $12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users (Jessica Hill/Associated Press)

Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
Roblox agrees to pay $12.5M and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with Nevada over claims it failed to protect young users  —  Roblox, a gaming platform popular with kids, will implement increased protections for young users and pay more than $12 million …

Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX told employees that it has moved up the scheduled date for when shares awarded to employees become eligible for sale from May to April  —  SpaceX has moved up a scheduled vesting date for shares awarded to employees to as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter …

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks (Qwen)

Qwen:
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks  —  · 4355 words  · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文  —  HUGGING FACE  —  MODELSCOPE  —  DISCORD

IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit $294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit $117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video hit $78B, up 25.4% (George Winslow/TV Tech)

George Winslow / TV Tech:
IAB and PwC: digital ad revenue hit $294.6B in 2025, up 13.9% YoY; social media advertising hit $117.7B, up 32.6%, and digital video hit $78B, up 25.4%  —  The 13.9% pop was driven by social media, up 32.6% to $117.7 billion and digital video, up 25.4% to $74 billion last year

The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
The US and the Philippines agree to launch a high-tech industrial hub on the island of Luzon to counter China's supply chains; the US will run it as an SEZ  —  Hub will aim to forge China-proof supply chains with automated factories and local resources  —  An agreement with the Philippines …