Techmeme: Report says Roblox exploits young game developers, many of them children, including by making it difficult to withdraw money earned through microtransactions (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Wired)

Techmeme: Alphabet's Verily raised $1B led by Alphabet; founder and CEO Andy Conrad will become executive chairman as President Stephen Gillett becomes CEO in January (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Techmeme: Report says Roblox exploits young game developers, many of them children, including by making it difficult to withdraw money earned through microtransactions (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Wired)

Techmeme: Quentin Tarantino and Miramax settle their copyright infringement lawsuit over Pulp Fiction NFTs and say they may collaborate to release more NFTs in the future (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Techmeme: Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Techmeme: Revolut plans to launch one-click payment feature Revolut Pay, and has signed up Shopify, Prestashop, WH Smith, and Funky Pigeon (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Techmeme: Visa says it acquired CryptoPunk 7610, one of the 3,840 female punk NFTs, for around $150K last week, adding it to its art collection (Yogita Khatri/The Block)