Meta Launches Pocket AI Minigame Creator
Meta has made Pocket, its generative AI minigame creation app, available in the US. The company describes it as a platform for making and sharing “gizmos.”
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Meta Launches Pocket’s AI Game Creation in the US
Meta is expanding Pocket, an experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. The app was previously tested quietly in Brazil.
A New Complexity Scorecard for Game World Models
The paper proposes Transition Complexity Profile (TCP), a reproducible framework for measuring how difficult game-world transition prediction is at a specified interface. It evaluates branching, interaction-driven uncertainty, opponent influence, and temporal or spatial dependencies to improve comparisons across game-modeling and reinforcement-learning benchmarks.
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Alibaba Sells Lingxi to Refocus on AI
Alibaba will sell all shares of Lingxi Games to Chixin Capital for 10.1 billion yuan, exiting self-developed game content. The deal reflects Alibaba’s shift from gaming toward AI, where its Qwen models and consumer products are becoming strategic priorities.
Humanoid Robots Move From Showcases to Work
The second World Humanoid Robot Games will open on August 22 with 666 teams and 2,056 robots, marking sharp year-over-year participation growth. Industry leaders say robot configurations and core components are converging, but practical use cases, industrial-grade hardware, and large-scale training data remain unresolved.
Ke Jie Claims He Found AlphaGo’s Weakness
Go champion Ke Jie said during a livestream that he had discovered a way to defeat AlphaGo, despite the system once being considered virtually unbeatable. He described the approach as “pretending to be an idiot,” though the claim has not been independently verified.
Epic Calls Apple’s EU Fees ‘Junk Fees’
Apple announced changes to its EU App Store charging rules, prompting a rapid backlash from long-time rival Epic Games. Epic argues that the revisions remain inadequate and continue to impose excessive costs on developers.
Kling AI Becomes Kuaishou’s Growth Engine
Kling AI generated more than RMB 850 million in Q2 revenue, up 240% year over year, making it the standout growth driver in Kuaishou’s otherwise slowing business. Kuaishou is prioritizing AI investment, spinning Kling AI out for independent financing at an implied valuation of US$18 billion despite near-term profit pressure.
Rapidus Bets on 2nm Without Fighting TSMC
Rapidus is pursuing mass production of advanced 2nm semiconductors through a large-scale Japanese national project. Instead of matching TSMC’s scale, the company plans to compete with RUMS, an integrated one-building production model designed for diverse, lower-volume manufacturing.
GPT-5.6 Cross-Region Inference Arrives on Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 models—Sol, Terra, and Luna—across more than 25 AWS Regions through cross-Region inference. Developers can use US geographic or global inference profiles to improve throughput and access the models through OpenAI and Converse APIs.