Cognition acquired TierZero, an AI production operations startup founded by Anhang Zhu and Yun Park, to integrate TierZero's incident response and infrastructure automations into its Devin software en…
World models, AI systems capable of understanding physical environments, have become a major focus in 2026, attracting billions in funding from investors. Startups like AMI Labs, World Labs, Runway, L…
China's Ministry of State Security warned that a popular augmented reality game may be providing geospatial data to train foreign military AI models. The ministry cited reports that an AI company link…
Pokémon Go players' voluntary 3D scans trained Niantic Spatial's AI models for GPS-free navigation, which are now being combined with defense contractor Vantor's software to guide military drones when…
Niantic Spatial, an AI company spun out of Pokémon Go developer Niantic in May 2025, used billions of real-world images captured by millions of Pokémon Go players to train a "large geospatial model" f…
Data from the augmented reality game Pokémon Go was used to train artificial intelligence systems later adapted for military drone applications. The location and movement data collected from millions …
Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator announced. Hu, a former YC founder whose company Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic in 2018, has worked with…