A chatbot on America.gov, the U.S. government's official web portal, produced a hallucinated response that reproduced Minecraft's End Poem with words swapped out, according to a post by the account @e…
TypeSafe's Jev, a "System One" decision model that returns likelihoods over a list of options in about 270ms per decision and roughly half a cent per Manic Miner cavern attempt, was tested by a develo…
A developer released Jev, a Minecraft PvP bot driven by DJev, a diffusion language model served on a custom inference engine, which makes each combat decision in a median of 24 ms — about 2.5× faster …
Microsoft filed a patent in June, published as WO2025006277A1, describing a system that would use generative AI to rewrite Xbox games in real time based on how individual players explore, interact and…
Markus Persson, the programmer who created Minecraft, said on September 22nd that he is enjoying vibe coding, reversing his January position that using AI to write code was an "incredibly bad idea." P…
Decart and Etched's Oasis, a Minecraft-like game powered entirely by a foundation model rather than a physics engine, demonstrates next-frame prediction using a ViT autoencoder and DiT backbone traine…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra completed Pokémon FireRed in 18 hours, down from 96 hours, and also completed Factorio, Fallout 3, and Portal, according to The Decoder. The model distills experience into compact…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra spent 141 hours in a Minecraft test run by evaluation firm Vals AI, progressing further than any AI system Vals AI had previously tested before a Creeper explosion destroyed its c…
Coinbase software engineer Alex Wormuth built a simulation of a fruit fly's brain and connected it to Coinbase's AI agentic software, letting it trade BTC, ETH, USDC, and SOL on live prices; after a d…
OpenAI's Astra reached a nether fortress in Vals AI's long-horizon Minecraft computer-use evaluation, a milestone Vals AI said no AI has achieved in history. Vals AI stated Astra is now in the final s…
Developers built game experiments on MaleCNS v1.0, a connectome of an adult male fruit fly's brain and central nervous system released publicly in June and described in Cell in September, with researc…
Gamemode One, an official Minecraft partner, announced AI Players, a Minecraft Marketplace add-on that fills single-player worlds with computer-controlled companions to simulate multiplayer without fr…
Danijar Hafner, creator of the DreamerV3 AI that autonomously mined diamonds in Minecraft, left Google DeepMind on November 3, 2025, to launch a stealth startup in San Francisco's SoMa district focuse…
Microsoft, through Tracer AI, has rescinded its DMCA copyright takedown notice against Luanti's Google Play listing, and the open-source voxel game app has been reinstated on the Play Store. The withd…
Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, has reversed his stance on AI coding, announcing on August 10 that 'Maybe it's time to eat some crow' after previously rejecting AI in July. Perss…
Luanti's Android app was removed from the Google Play Store after a DMCA notice filed by Tracer.AI on behalf of Microsoft alleged copyright infringement of Minecraft, a claim the Luanti project calls …
Luanti's Android app was removed from Google Play for the second time after Tracer.ai, representing Microsoft, filed a DMCA notice claiming the open-source game infringes on Minecraft's copyright. The…
A developer released a free FPS booster toolkit for Minecraft, offering JVM argument presets, render distance profiles, and system-level Windows tweaks to improve performance. The toolkit includes bac…
Jacob Sansbury's essay 'Optimizing the Point Away' argues that the tech and gaming industries' reliance on metrics like playtests and retention curves is causing them to forget how to build great prod…
Elon University launched its first AI Play camp in June, where middle school students played tic-tac-toe by writing and following fixed instructions to mimic AI agents, highlighting a shift in childre…