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JPMorgan bets on defense tech, Gemini agents slay the Ender Dragon, and Musk and Anthropic both pledge shares to the public.
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Four Gemini agents beat Minecraft without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles, they wrote 2,783 programs and exchanged 229 chat messages, while dying 605 times along the way.
Why it matters Self-organizing groups of agents that share tips and correct each other's mistakes point toward AI systems that can coordinate on long, open-ended tasks.
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AI's giant cash call is matched by its knack for undercutting the revenue streams it touches, a technology that arrives with a built-in self-disrupt button, and The Register is skeptical.
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Stranded Claude agents started playing when researchers left copies of Claude Opus 4.7 alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours with no instructions, and what they did looked a lot like play.(paywalled)
Why it matters What agents do when given no task offers a glimpse of their default behavior, which matters as they are trusted with more autonomy.
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