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Meta (META) is testing Takes, a play-money prediction app, with employees, and AI-written questions target the hand-picked cost that killed its 2020 Forecast app.
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A free Meta product would threaten Robinhood’s retail engagement far more than CME’s institutional futures franchise, since it competes for attention and daily habit.
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Takes may never ship and carries no disclosed revenue, while Meta’s $135-145B capital spending is the bigger story for investors.
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On the night of November 13, 2026, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) employees were asked to predict who would win the quiz show Jeopardy! inside an unreleased app called Takes. The test appeared that afternoon, and Meta declined to comment and gave no launch date.
Testers commit a points currency called cred, which they gain when a prediction is right and lose when it is wrong, and no money changes hands, which separates Takes from Kalshi and Polymarket, where users trade real dollars on outcomes.
Meta closed at $641.69, up $18.08 or 2.9%, then fell to $637.03 after hours, down 0.73% as of 7:59 p.m. ET. Nothing links the gain to the report, and shares remain down 13% over the past month. The question for shareholders is whether a free, habit-forming app can matter at a company whose family of apps reaches 3.64 billion people daily.
Takes Has Changed Names Three Times Without Shipping
On June 23, 2026, reporting said Mark Zuckerberg directed a small team to build a points-based app called Arena. A day later, internal documents described it under the codenames Antwerp and FBForecast.
Those documents laid out a daily allocation of play money. Meta’s Llama AI model wrote questions from trending topics, recommended markets, and resolved them in near real time. Employees would test a prototype before a public launch on iPhone and Android.
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