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Smartphone maker Nothing announced Playground, an AI‑driven platform that lets users create simple widget‑style apps by entering natural‑language prompts. The tool currently supports building and customizing Essential Apps widgets, with options for more technical users to tweak underlying code. Nothing emphasized security and ease of use, noting that full‑screen apps are not yet supported. The launch follows a recent $200 million funding round led by Tiger Global, and CEO Carl Pei highlighted the company’s vision of AI‑enhanced operating systems and hardware built specifically for AI use cases. Read more

London‑based smartphone maker Nothing introduced Playground, an AI‑driven app store that lets users generate simple apps from text prompts. Built on Android, Playground is part of the broader Essential brand, which encompasses the company’s AI‑related products such as a search tool and a voice‑note organizer. Founder and CEO Carl Pei described the launch as a first step toward an AI‑native operating system, emphasizing that the platform will evolve to allow more seamless, on‑device app creation and a potential new creator economy. The company says it is not abandoning Android and has no immediate monetization plan for the store. Read more

Nothing announced Playground, an AI‑driven platform that lets users create simple widget‑style apps on its Essential Apps ecosystem using plain text prompts. The tool supports building from scratch or customizing existing widgets, and more technical users can tweak the underlying code. While full‑screen apps are not yet supported, the company sees the technology as a way to make operating systems more personal and to foster a developer community. Nothing, led by CEO Carl Pei, recently raised $200 million and aims to leverage its small market share to experiment with AI‑centric hardware and software. Read more

Nothing announced Playground, an AI‑driven app store built on Android, alongside its Essential brand of AI‑related products. Users can create simple apps from written prompts, share them, and install them on Nothing phones. While the company calls the effort a step toward an "AI‑native operating system," it remains an interface that runs on Android, not a new OS. Founder and CEO Carl Pei says the vision includes a future creator economy and more proactive phone behavior, but monetization and full‑screen apps are still on the horizon. Read more