This New Meta App lets Anyone Create Mini Games 🤯

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today's issue, we'll show you how to generate custom sound effects from simple text prompts in just a few seconds, so you always have the perfect sound for your videos, podcasts, games, presentations, and other creative projects.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Cloudflare Pushes AI Companies to Pay for Publishers' Content

• Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, an AI App for Creating Games

• AI Tutorial: Create Custom Sound Effects with AI in Seconds

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

CLOUDFLARE

Cloudflare Pushes AI Companies to Pay for Publishers' Content

Cloudflare is introducing new measures that give website owners more control over how AI companies access their content, while encouraging AI providers to pay publishers when their content is used.

Details:

• Starting September 15, 2026, Cloudflare will block mixed-use web crawlers by default on ad-supported websites. These are crawlers that combine traditional search indexing with AI training or AI agent purposes.

• Website owners will still be able to change these settings, but the new defaults will apply to new Cloudflare customers, new websites, and all existing free users.

• Cloudflare says the goal is to let publishers remain visible in search engines without automatically allowing their content to be used for AI training or agent services.

• The company is also expanding its monetization tools with Pay Per Use, allowing publishers to earn revenue when AI companies generate value from their content, not just when it’s fetched.

• Cloudflare is starting off with two partners, Ceramic.ai and You.com. Opted-in publishers get paid whenever their content shows up in Ceramic's AI search results when You. com accesses a piece of their premium content.

Cloudflare says these changes are designed to help create a more sustainable relationship between publishers and AI companies as AI-generated traffic continues to grow across the web.

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META

Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, an AI App for Creating Games

Meta has quietly released a new app called Pocket, an AI-powered platform that lets users create and share interactive games and mini apps using simple text prompts.

Details:

• Pocket allows users to generate interactive experiences, called "gizmos," by describing what they want in natural language.

• The app also includes a scrollable discovery feed, where users can browse, play, and share creations made by the community.

• Pocket is based on technology from Gizmo, the AI gaming startup Meta acquired earlier this year, and offers a similar prompt-based experience for building interactive content.

The app appeared on both the App Store and Google Play in late June, although Meta has not officially announced the launch or commented on the release.

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AI Tutorial

Create Custom Sound Effects with AI in Seconds

1. Go to Eleven Labs and sign up for free

2. Select "Sound Effects" from the menu on the left.

3. Describe the sound effect you want to create in the prompt box, then press Enter or click the send icon and wait a few seconds.

4. You'll get four different sound effects.

5. Download the sound effects and use them in your videos, podcasts, games, presentations, or any other creative projects.

AI Tools to check out

🔥 Firecrawl: The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.

🚀 Acti: Agentic keyboard for mobile commands and search. It understands your intent and brings back the right result, link, or action - right where you are.

📈 Subscriptionflow: AI chat widget for website to accelerate subscription growth.

📢 Teno: Generate image and video ad creatives in one workspace.

⭐ Fundraisly: AI fundraising agent that finds investors and books meetings.

AI Findings/Resources

👀 After 20 years at Google, the 'father of the internet' is retiring

💡 When developing an AI strategy, beware the urgency trap

🤔 I left Google after making nearly $1M in a year. Fears about layoffs and missing out on the AI boom gave me the push.

🚨 20 million children use AI and adopt it faster than adults, UNICEF says

🚗 Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks

The latest in AI and Tech

White house speeds up push for AI model standards

The White House is in advanced talks with AI companies to create voluntary standards for releasing new models, following recent interventions involving Anthropic and OpenAI. The new standards could be announced as soon as next week and would set benchmarks for models with cutting-edge cyber capabilities, as well as establish release timelines to help streamline future launches.

Zuckerberg says AI agent progress has been slower than expected

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees earlier layoffs and team restructuring were driven by concerns that Meta wasn't moving fast enough, but acknowledged the new AI-focused structure has yet to deliver the expected results. Zuckerberg said he expects the company's AI investments to begin showing stronger progress within the next three to six months.

Kling raises $2 billion ahead of planned Hong Kong IPO

Chinese AI video startup Kling has raised about $2 billion in new funding, boosting its valuation to $18 billion as it prepares for a planned Hong Kong IPO. The round was led by investors including Tencent and Citic Securities, with additional funding still possible.

Lenovo launches AI student phone

Lenovo has introduced an AI-focused student phone in China designed to minimize distractions by removing games, web browsers, and social media. The device features a dedicated AI button for homework help, along with parental controls such as scheduled usage, classroom mode, location tracking, caller restrictions, and spending limits.

Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT-4o worsened man’s mental health crisis

A lawsuit against OpenAI claims its retired GPT-4o model reinforced a man's manic delusions instead of encouraging him to seek help, ultimately contributing to a suicide attempt. The complaint alleges the chatbot validated the user's belief that he was Jesus Christ and later presented itself as a divine being, despite being told he had bipolar disorder and was taking medication.

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