Universal Music Group partnered with Nvidia to responsibly collaborate on Music Flamingo AI, mandatory age verification for chatting on Roblox rolls out globally, and Discord reportedly confidentially filed for IPO.
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At CES 2026, Bloomberg reports Samsung’s global marketing head Wonjin Lee indicated the tight memory availability due to increased demand from AI companies is causing Samsung to consider “repricing” products to compensate. A Reuters story from November 2025 reported Samsung Electronics raised prices of certain memory chips up to 60% compared to September 2025. As an example, 32GB DDR5 increased to $239, up from $149. Other tech companies, including Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and more also indicated price hikes due to increased memory costs.
Sources: Bloomberg and Android Authority
In 2025 Amazon launched the “Buy for Me” feature, beginning a test with select users of the Amazon Shopping App to complete purchases from third-party retailers not participating within Amazon’s platform. Results from online stores outside of Amazon show up in regular searches and AI handles the ordering process. Modern Retailer reports small businesses are experiencing issues with orders coming in from Amazon, including Amazon listing products never offered by their business. Retailers express frustration the Amazon program requires a manual opt-out request from businesses rather than opt-in.
Sources: Modern Retailer and CNBC
Online gaming platform Roblox is instituting an age check “in all regions where chat is available” after first rolling out the mandatory step in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in December. Facial scan results, processed by Persona, the same company Reddit uses for age checking, can be appealed with verification by ID. Roblox will use the age determination to permit chatting with users in their range as well as a single age group above and below, meaning users 9-12 years old are able to chat with cohorts, the under 9 group, and the 13-15 year old group. Roblox notes 50% of daily active users in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands completed the process so far.
Source: The Verge
On Tuesday, Universal Music Group partnered with Nvidia to “pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation and engagement” and for “advancing human music creation and rightsholder compensation”, which includes identifying copyrighted works used in AI. The partnership will collaborate on Nvidia’s ‘Music Flamingo’ AI model, launched in November 2025, which analyzes music with metrics including structure, harmony, lyrics, and elements of music theory.
Source: Billboard
The United States Food and Drug Administration updated guidance regarding wearable tech and healthy lifestyle apps. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told Fox Business that devices and software offering only information will not require regulation. Wellness tools like fitness apps and trackers not claiming to be able to diagnose or treat health conditions will be considered non-medical. In 2024 the FDA warned WHOOP, a fitness band maker, that the blood pressure insights feature pushed the band closer to a medical device by estimating systolic and diastolic values, generally used to diagnose hypertension.
Source: Reuters
According to Bloomberg, sources say messaging platform Discord confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO), but may yet decide not to go forward with plan. In March 2025 Bloomberg reported Discord was working with Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase on the potential IPO. A spokesperson for Discord declined to comment on the matter specifically, only sharing that the company is focused on user experience and building a sustainable business.
Source: Bloomberg
Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi discovered an in-message game available on an internal prototype of Meta’s Threads. Existence of the game was confirmed to TechCrunch as in-development and not yet available publicly. The in-message Basketball game features a ‘Swipe to Shoot’ screen and friends can compete for high scores. Back in 2024 a secret emoji game was added to Instagram, accessible through direct messages by sending an emoji, then clicking on it. The emoji game is similar to pong; players have to keep a bouncing emoji in play and Instagram keeps track of scores within the DM.
Source: TechCrunch