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Pokemon Go Made Niantic Billions But Now It’s Ditching Gaming For AI
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5:29Now PlayingNiantic 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?
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