IEEE Spectrum's weekly Video Friday roundup features GENE.01, a fully functional humanoid robot developed in six months by Generative Bionics, capable of walking and sensing with a full-body multimoda…
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…
Khronos Group presented an open standards roadmap at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 in Hong Kong, December 15-18, covering cross-platform ML inferencing acceleration, glTF Gaussian Splats, and OpenXR Spatial Enti…
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…