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Brussels has ordered Meta to make Instagram and Facebook less addictive, threatening the company with huge fines if it continues to offer features such as “infinite scrolling”.
Pocket is a new app from Meta that lets you create and share interactive content, like mini games, with friends. It's powered by Meta's AI.
The company is building an app separate from Facebook and Instagram where people can wager on the outcome of real-world events, using "play money."
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.
Pocket is listed in app stores but seemingly unavailable in the US.
Facebook and Instagram want in on the lucrative prediction market industry.
Meta is reportedly developing Arena, a standalone prediction-markets app that could launch with points before adding real-money features.
Meta’s push to replace phone numbers with usernames for its Indian user base has run into a wall in Delhi. But the real story is what one identity, shared across three apps, does for a single advertis
Meta's Facebook and Instagram both use "addictive design" that could fall foul of the European Union's new Digital Services Act, and the European Commission has already preliminarily found Meta's iPhone apps are in breach of its rules.
Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi's CEO last year about a potential deal, but talks did not move forward. Now Meta is making its own prediction market app.
