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The AI industry is quietly building its moats — some with 30 billion images from unsuspecting Pokémon trainers, others with metered pipes they hope will become as essential as running water.

Monday, March 16, 2026

500 Million Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Built the World's Largest Visual Navigation Dataset for Robots

Niantic has revealed that eight years of AR scans from Pokémon Go's massive player base produced over 30 billion geo-tagged images — now being used to train robots that can navigate within centimeters without GPS.

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GPT-4 Turns Three as Users Petition to Save Its Successor

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman marked GPT-4's third birthday while a growing user revolt — over 1,370 testimonials under the #keep4o hashtag — demands the company reverse course on deprecating the model or release its weights.

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Ethan Mollick: Meta and xAI Are Falling Behind, Leaving Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on the Path to Recursive Self-Improvement

The Wharton professor argues that failures by Meta and xAI to maintain competitive parity mean recursive AI self-improvement — if it arrives — will likely come from just three labs.

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The Singularity
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500 Million Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Built the World's Largest Visual Navigation Dataset for Robots

GPT-4 Turns Three as Users Petition to Save Its Successor

Ethan Mollick: Meta and xAI Are Falling Behind, Leaving Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on the Path to Recursive Self-Improvement

Altman Pitches Intelligence as a Metered Utility; Musk Counters with 'All Jobs Will Be Optional'

Microsoft's Multimodal AI Turns Standard Pathology Slides into Spatial Proteomics Maps

Tether CEO Teases 'True Breakthrough' from Stablecoin Giant's AI Division

Sitegeist, the Browser Agent That Reportedly Outperforms OpenAI's Atlas, Goes Open Source

Android Coding Agent Founder Joins xAI and SpaceX to Build 'Best Coding AI'

OpenClaw Agent Framework Hits 103 Templates as Agent Marketplaces Take Shape

Japanese AI Construction Startup Tomo Reaches $10 Billion Valuation in Five Years

1983 Steve Jobs AI Prediction Resurfaces, Goes Viral