Niantic officially sells to that Saudi-owned game developer. iRobot says it might not be alive in about 12 months time. Sam Altman believes he has an AI that can write believable fiction. Is the cavalry coming to save Intel? And why can’t we create a true AI Einstein in a data center?

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Links:

• Pokémon Go developer Niantic to sell gaming business to Saudi group (The Verge)
• Saudi-owned Scopely buys Pokémon Go in $3.5bn gaming deal (FT)
• One-Time Amazon Takeover Target iRobot Warns Doubt on Future (Bloomberg)
• Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU (TheVerge)
• Sam Altman says OpenAI has trained a fiction writing AI model that’s actually decent (SiliconAngle)
• Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal (TheVerge)
• Exclusive: TSMC pitched Intel foundry JV to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom, sources say (Reuters)
• Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’ (TheVerge)

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