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Google's Gemini AI Is now a Pokémon Master

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro has officially completed Pokémon Blue The game ran as a livestream experiment by an independent engineer Gemini played the game with some light developer intervention, but ...
CNET

Pokemon Go Has a New Owner, While Niantic Is Evolving Its Maps to Fold in AI and AR

Niantic's pivot to spatial mapping has been underway for years. What it means for Pokemon Go's future is unclear, but a deeper blend of AR, AI and your future maps of the world are going to be what ...
PC Gamer

Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four

AI Disney's embarrassing AI-generated Star Wars video of scrambled-up animals was the opening salvo in a year full of AI humiliation AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about ...
Mashable

Anthropic’s AI agent Claude is playing Pokémon and just can’t catch ‘em all

Anthropic's AI agent Claude is trying to beat Pokémon Red. Apparently, it's no Ash Ketchum. Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Last month, the $61.5 billion-valuated AI startup Anthropic set up a gaming ...
Forbes

Pokemon Go Made Niantic Billions. Now It’s Ditching Gaming For AI.

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 ...