Former Pokémon Go owner Niantic announced last week that it will be using the data generated by millions of users to assist AI delivery bots. Whether all those players explicitly consented or not, the ...

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Hundreds of millions of Pokemon Go players have unknowingly helped create an AI navigation system that will now be used by delivery robots. The augmented reality smartphone game, which uses a phone's ...

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots ...

Niantic, the company behind augmented reality games "Pokémon," "Monster Hunter," and "Pikmin Bloom," has split its company in two, selling off the gaming half to games company Scopely. So what does ...

Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its games business and pivot to enterprise AI. Why blow it all up now? Walking ...