ProductThe Verge·October 28, 2026

Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store listings, the "16-bit pet care game" is not really a game, but "a daily journal disguised as a pet." Users should talk, not type, with their pets, the description says, as well as play "cozy games"…

This is a summary curated by AIFuture. Read the complete article at the original source:

Read the full story on The Verge

More AI News

ProductMarkTechPost

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM with 4.3B active parameters. It transcribes 40 languages, adds speaker labels and word timestamps, and posts a 4.71% mean WER on the English Open ASR Leaderboard. The post NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Oct 29, 2026

ProductThe Verge

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don't like AI, and it's not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about the launch of widescreen and long-form video for Instagram, Mosseri said he thinks there's a trend of…

Oct 28, 2026

IndustryTechCrunch

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.

Oct 28, 2026