Squeeze Kid
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Hi I’m Cynthia! I'm on the growth team at @renalta and write about consumer, culture, & capital 🤍 I made my first IG reel last December (@bycynthiachn) and just started sharing more here (this is my first post on X!!) My focus is on patterns across consumer data and emerging financial systems like fintech and crypto, especially how value is created and perceived. A lot of this comes from observing the systems shaping how we spend what we value and how those signals move across culture and markets. If that resonates, stay tuned!

We’re on the verge of interactive, real-time, photorealistic video generation with what are called World Models. These require a fair amount of expensive compute, but costs will come down over time. Today, these interactions are essentially real-time dreams. They lack the persistence and shared logic that turns a video into a multiplayer game. Or concert. Or classroom. Or the holodeck. We believe the ultimate architecture for gaming (and the holodeck) is Roblox Reality. It’s a hybrid architecture that marries the structured data and logic of the Roblox Engine and Roblox Cloud with the generative power of Video World Models. The Roblox Engine provides the underlying synchronized ground truth—the score, physics, multiplayer sync, etc.—while our video model acts as a Super Upsampler to layer on photorealistic detail. We believe this will ultimately remove barriers to high-fidelity creation, allowing a team of three people to build a narrative-driven, photorealistic masterpiece in a single week. This is an early look at turning solitary AI dreams into a social, playable reality. about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/…


Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced today during an internal town hall that Microsoft is dropping the “Microsoft Gaming” name and returning to the Xbox brand for its entire gaming division. “Xbox needs to be our identity,” said Sharma This reverses the 2022 rebrand when Phil Spencer became CEO of the broader gaming unit during the Activision Blizzard acquisition. It forms part of Sharma’s efforts to refocus on the core Xbox brand and put fans first



Asha Sharma became CEO of Xbox only 2 months ago and she's already done some big things for its customers: - Cut Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 per month - Announced Project Helix, the codename for the next-gen console - Rebranded from Microsoft Gaming back to simply Xbox - Scrapped the “This is an Xbox” marketing campaign - Committed to human-crafted games and ruled out low-quality AI content - Boosted direct fan engagement on X with faster responses and updates


Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Game Pass Ultimate will drop from $29.99 to $22.99 per month New Call of Duty games will no longer be released day one on Xbox Game Pass


Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Game Pass Ultimate will drop from $29.99 to $22.99 per month New Call of Duty games will no longer be released day one on Xbox Game Pass

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Game Pass Ultimate will drop from $29.99 to $22.99 per month New Call of Duty games will no longer be released day one on Xbox Game Pass

🟢 Asha Sharma 3 months as Xbox Boss - ✅ Slashes Game Pass price ✅ Kills “This is an Xbox” ad ✅ Prioritises console ✅ Updates Achievements ✅ Reviewing exclusives ✅ Announced Project Helix ✅ Brings back Xbox fan fest ✅ Announces Gears E:Day deep dive We are so back

Game Pass Ultimate has become too expensive for too many players. Starting today, we’re dropping the price from $29.99 to $22.99/month. Future Call of Duty titles will no longer join Game Pass Ultimate on day one. They will join this tier the following holiday after launch (about a year later). Current Call of Duty titles will remain available to Ultimate subscribers. We’ll keep learning and evolving Game Pass to better match what matters to players. xbx.lv/4cWO9hR


Gaming got written off post-COVID while everyone chased AI, but it’s still a ~$200B market and the incumbents are weaker than they’ve been in years. Last cycle gave us Fortnite and Roblox. This cycle will do the same. At gaming multiples vs AI at 50x revenue, it’s one of the best asymmetric bets in consumer right now. Watch.





