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Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, says it has built and deployed a new AI-powered navigation system that leverages reinforcement learning (RL) to steer balloons ...

Alphabet’s Loon has discontinued use of man-made algorithms in steering its Internet-providing balloons. Instead, the fleet is directed around the globe by an artificial intelligence. This particular ...

Only Google could think that the way to improve the flight of giant, helium-filled balloons is by coming up with better algorithms. And to be fair to the Mountain View-based search leviathan, it seems ...