Meta has released Waddle World, a Tamagotchi-style AI pet game, for now only in the Philippines. Players hatch and care for a pet that can chat with them and create illustrated journal entries about their conversations.
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has found its first dwarf planet candidate, a distant icy body called 2026 ED138 orbiting beyond Pluto. Early measurements put it among the largest candidates ever found beyond Neptune, and if confirmed it would join Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake.
Jio Platforms, Mukesh Ambani's telecom and digital unit backed by Meta and Google, jumped 21% in its market debut after India's largest IPO raised $3.2 billion. The offering drew more than $77 billion in bids, and the debut valued Jio at about $131.9 billion.
SAP and Japan's NTT announced plans to cooperate on SAP Sovereign Cloud and SAP Business AI. The partnership combines SAP's enterprise software with NTT's global infrastructure to help regulated industries adopt cloud and AI while keeping control of sensitive data.
Anthropic's S-1 shows no venture firm owns the 5% needed to appear in its principal stockholders table, because at a $965 billion private valuation even large stakes are small percentages. Strategic partners hold bigger stakes, and Amazon looks set to be the single largest winner from the IPO.
