To be more precise: Niantic sold itself to Scopely and spun the spatial platform out as Niantic Spatial Inc. — with a technology licensing agreement where opt-in user scans flow back to Niantic Spatial. If you're curious about how VPS works, watch this:
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NVIDIA GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Keynote with Industry Leaders
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We’re going live at #NVIDIAGTC in 30 minutes. ⏱️
— NVIDIA (@nvidia) 16 mars 2026
Join us for GTC Live at 8 a.m. PT as we get ready for Jensen Huang's keynote 11 a.m.
Featuring industry leaders from: @bfl_ml, @Cadence, @CaterpillarInc, @cohere, @CoreWeave, @DellTech, @EdisonSci, @FireworksAI_HQ, @IBM,… pic.twitter.com/XM5FfFoTnpWe’re going live at #NVIDIAGTC in 30 minutes. Join us for GTC Live at 8 a.m. PT as we get ready for Jensen Huang's keynote 11 a.m. Featuring industry leaders from: @bfl_ml
, @Cadence
, @CaterpillarInc
, @cohere
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, @DellTech
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Rising Political Opposition to AI Infrastructure and Job Automation
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A “People vs. AI” movement is rising.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 16 mars 2026
Bernie Sanders is calling for a moratorium on data centres. Over $98bn of AI infrastructure build was blocked in a single quarter last year. In California and New York there are calls for wealth taxes.
Just wait till the job automation… https://t.co/6g7i73QaMOA “People vs. AI” movement is rising. Bernie Sanders is calling for a moratorium on data centres. Over $98bn of AI infrastructure build was blocked in a single quarter last year. In California and New York there are calls for wealth taxes. Just wait till the job automation
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Data Brokers Selling Social Media and Location Data
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I obviously think social media data and location data that is aggregated and sold by data brokers is probably top of the list.
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Ride-sharing datasets and data broker practices in AI
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also a great data set – along w/ other ride sharing cos. i also left out social media and other datasets data brokers fuse and resell
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Niantic’s 3D World Map Built From 30 Billion Crowdsourced Images
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People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year — he's also the guy who… https://t.co/x6u9ZtjHK9 pic.twitter.com/uDLesrGWW5
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 16 mars 2026People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year — he's also the guy who
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AI Systems Exceed Human-Created Solutions in Decentralized Networks
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Whatever we can create, they can do better Verifiable ownership, smart contract,’ censorship resistance, permissionless- they can do better
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Product scaling beyond expectations by orders of magnitude
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selling more than spectacles by a few orders of magnitude
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Nemotron’s Intentional Limitations in AI Model Design Strategy
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i have a pet theory that Bryan and co cannot make Nemotron TOO good bc otherwise it would scare off customers. it needs to be “good enough to reflect everyone’s baseline consensus on SOTA techniques to lower the bar for neolabs + be maximally useful for synthetic data bc that is
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Databricks Document Processing: Extracting Enterprise Unstructured Data
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Most critical enterprise data doesn't live in organized column and rows. It's unstructured – PDFs, reports, and diagrams. Extracting insights historically meant rules-heavy OCR pipelines that break the changes.@Alex_TheAnalyst walks through how document processing in Databricks… pic.twitter.com/yZ48rLevvw
— Databricks (@databricks) 15 mars 2026Most critical enterprise data doesn't live in organized column and rows. It's unstructured – PDFs, reports, and diagrams. Extracting insights historically meant rules-heavy OCR pipelines that break the changes. @Alex_TheAnalyst walks through how document processing in Databricks