The AI system has detected and reported 1,200 cases to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children this year.

On Thursday, Roblox announced Roblox Sentinel, an artificial intelligence system that's designed to flag inappropriate messages in its chat feature.

Roblox posted strong fiscal second-quarter results earlier this month. Bookings jumped 51% to $1.44 billion, beating estimates.

Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an ...

Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect ...

The move comes as the company faces lawsuits and criticism it doesn't do enough to protect children from predators.

Roblox is open sourcing its AI-based Sentinel tech designed to detect grooming or child endangerment by identifying chat patterns. The firm said Sentinel works by analysing over six billion chat ...