Meta Unveils Pocket App and Enhances AI Capabilities for Businesses and Creators
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Meta's little vibe-coding app Pocket has now arrived in the US after a brief testing phase in Brazil. The app lets people generate minigames, called gizmos, via prompts. The games get published to a scrollable feed, bringing in a social media component. Users can save gizmos to a favorites list and repost gizmos to their feed.
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TechCrunchMeta’s experimental vibe-coding gaming app, Pocket, is now rolling out to everyone in the U.S. The app, which arrived quietly last month in the test market of Brazil, allows people to generate small, interactive games using AI prompts, which are published to a scrollable feed.
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Along with the new app, Meta is introducing new AI capabilities for businesses and creators. The company says its app across the web, on mobile, and on Mac can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace.
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TechCrunchThe Mac app release is part of a Meta AI update for business owners. The company said that merchants can connect their Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides) accounts to Meta AI, and get insights by asking queries to the AI assistant.
EngadgetIt's part of the company's latest push to make more business-friendly AI tools. Meta is rolling out a standalone desktop app for Meta AI. The new Mac app is part of the company's latest push to provide AI tools for business owners and creators who rely on Facebook and Instagram.
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Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin. Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac.
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TechCrunchIf you’ve ever wanted to share all of your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news for you: the AI lab has just launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing interested users to connect their Messages inbox with the chatbot.
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01 Engadget These games make full use of the capabilities available in modern smartphones. They can respond to both touch and tilt and can include photos and even songs. Once saved to a profile, other people can remix them into unique creations.
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02 Gizmodo Bloomberg reported that the Thursday update allows ChatGPT users (currently only Work and Codex users on Apple Silicon Macs) to “take actions such as reading, writing and sending text messages,” as well as search messages for summaries and other info. Note that Apple not only tends tbe sensitive about user privacy, but is actually suing OpenAI over claims of corporate espionage.
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03 The Verge The launch comes as Meta makes its AI chatbot more like a productivity-focused assistant to better compete with its AI rivals — many of which already have desktop apps. You can share your window with Google’s Gemini AI app, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude apps take things a step further by allowing the chatbots to take control of your computer.
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04 TechCrunch The benefits of doing this, OpenAI argues, are numerous. Users can use the plugin to sort, analyze, or edit their messages directly from ChatGPT. The plugin also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work, so users can use it professionally, not just personally.
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