F-Droid says Google's developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step.

Nothing on Monday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create apps with simple text prompts and deploy them to a platform of sorts known as Essential Apps.

Nothing has just announced Essential Apps, which are user-created widgets that can be shared via the company's web platform.

These Essential Apps, available via a new platform called Playground, are the first steps toward 'a new kind of AI-native operating system,' Nothing says.