Meta has released an app for making generative AI games

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Meta has released an app for making generative AI games. We'll talk more about it in moments, but first. Once upon a time, every single laptop shipped with a bulky charging brick. These chargers were heavy, cumbersome and fairly finicky. However, times have changed. Laptop chargers are smaller and lighter than ever before. What happened?
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Meta appears to have soft-launched a new app called Pocket that's aimed at getting people to vibe-code their own mini-games. Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Pelluzzi spotted Pocket and posted about it to Xtoday. But reporting platform app figures told TechCrunch, that the app has been available on both IOS and Android since June 29th. Though the app is listed publicly, it's not available in the US on any of the half dozen phone models associated with our Google accounts. And a help page on Meta's site says, the Pocket app is not yet available everywhere. The company has not made any public announcement yet about the launch or where the app is being trialed. We've reached out for comment and will update this post if we receive a response. From cosmetic tweaks to a standalone app for AI Slop, Meta has been going gangbusters on getting artificial intelligence into its services in the past year. TechCrunch suggested that Pocket may be the result of the company wholesale hiring the team behind Gizmo, an app that used AI to create interactive experiences based on prompts from users earlier this year. Pocket uses that exact same nomenclature, dubbing itself a creative platform for making and sharing Gizmos in the app listing and the Play Store short code of com.facebook.gizmo does little to dispel the notion either.
Thanks for listening to the show. Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Today's show featured journalism by Engadget contributor, Anna Washenko, and was produced by Spoken Lair. I'm Amran Shaikh, and as always, we'll talk more tomorrow.