Pokémon Just Designed the Tamagotchi Every Millennial Always Wanted

Pokémon Just Designed the Tamagotchi Every Millennial Always Wanted

Remember when Tamagotchis ruled the world? Those little digital pets taught us the pain of responsibility through pixelated death, and frankly, we’ve been chasing that high ever since. Virtual pets have evolved dramatically since those monochrome days, but most attempts feel like footnotes in gaming history. The formula needed something bigger, something with actual emotional…

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Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5…

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Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon

Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late…

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