Airwallex vs Mercury

Roblox expands AI game creation and cross-platform play

At its annual Roblox Developer Conference, Roblox announced new features including expanded AI-powered game creation tools, the ability to publish games as standalone apps on mobile, PC, and consoles, and in-browser play via links. The 'Build' feature, which allows natural language game creation, is expanding from New Zealand to Serbia and Singapore, with desktop access and a scene-generation feature planned. Roblox also introduced new NPC capabilities, an offline mode, a Friends chat tab, and a discovery algorithm that matches game length to user age. Financial products were unveiled, including a Roblox Wallet for daily real-money payouts (partnering with Airwallex for US users) and a Roblox Card for spending earnings. Since 2013, creators have earned over $5 billion, with $1.7 billion in the last 12 months. CEO David Baszucki reported over 29 billion player hours in the last quarter.

• Roblox announced new AI game creation tools and expanded its 'Build' feature to Serbia and Singapore.
• Creators will be able to publish games as standalone apps and allow in-browser play via links by year-end.
• Roblox introduced a Wallet for daily real-money payouts, partnering with Airwallex for US users.

Airwallex 'Who We Are' page replaced with tracking pixel

The page no longer displays company information; instead it shows a warning about a cached snapshot and a 1x1 image tracking probe.

Airwallex: Payments Will Become Invisible, Says Tom Sellin

Airwallex, the Australian fintech, is accelerating its European expansion and positioning itself as the financial infrastructure for an emerging era of AI-driven, agentic commerce. In a Finance Forward podcast interview, Tom Sellin — Head of Growth DACH at Airwallex — said that payments will become "completely invisible" within the next three years as AI agents handle checkout on users' behalf. Airwallex, founded in Melbourne in 2015 by Jack Zhang and last valued at about $12 billion, has reserved more than $1 billion for expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa through 2030 and plans to invest €31 million in Germany. The company aims to compete with established payment providers such as Wise, Stripe and Adyen.

• Airwallex was founded in 2015 in Melbourne by Jack Zhang.
• Airwallex was last valued at approximately $12 billion (as stated in the article).
• Airwallex has reserved more than $1 billion for expansion in Europe, the Middle East and Africa through 2030 and plans to invest €31 million in Germany.

Introducing Mercury Books

Mercury has launched a new product called Mercury Books, a bookkeeping solution, and also introduced exclusive mutual fund products through Mercury Treasury.

Grok Bot Built in a Month by Small Team

Roman Ugarte, who led Growth at Cursor, details how he and a small team built Grok Bot for SpaceXAI from scratch in four weeks, then launched it publicly three weeks later. The article covers key decisions, such as building independently rather than integrating with Cursor, and the team's manual onboarding of nearly 300 initial users. Early product choices and a 'colleague-pilled' philosophy contributed to the bot's success. Roman also discusses moats and Cursor's competitive strategy.

• Grok Bot was built from scratch in four weeks by a small team at SpaceXAI.
• Roman Ugarte previously led Growth at Cursor, scaling it from 15 to over 1,000 employees before acquisition by SpaceX.
• The team manually onboarded nearly 300 of the first users.