Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, is using player data to create a 3D map of the physical world. The model uses geolocation information from scans players ...

Data captured from Pokémon Go and other games are being used to create large AI models that can predict what buildings and other objects look like.

“Pokemon Go” developer Niantic announced its new AI model on Nov. 12, created using data players have sent over the years. The data-collecting feature, which can be disabled, is indicated in Niantic’s privacy policy, where the studio confirms it uses ...

You probably didn't know it, but if you played or are still playing Pokémon Go (there are more than half a million active players ), you were helping train an AI-powered geospatial model that aims to map the world.

Making us genuinely nostalgic for those days when all that Pokémon Go users were doing was finding corpses and committing crimes, today it turns out that they’ve also been training robots how to, like,