Surprise, surprise, Minecraft players are already using mods to bypass Xbox's new age restrictions

Xbox's UK social restrictions have come into full effect, and those yet to verify they're over 18 can't access core Minecraft ...
Sportskeeda

What is Verity Minecraft mod?

Verity is a mysterious horror Minecraft mod that adds an all-knowing AI-like entity to the game. The entity is initially a simple smiley ball that can talk and be kept as an item in the inventory. As ...
Variety

Mark Normand to Present YouTube Comedy Series ‘Human Trials,’ Which Puts Stand-Up Comics in Front of Hyper-Niche Crowds (EXCLUSIVE)

What if a stand-up comedian walked onstage only to find the audience was 50 bald men? Or 50 clowns, or nuns, or bikers or goths? The series also incorporates audience interviews and real-time feedback ...
Business Wire

Coforge launches “Mod Squads” – Outcome based human-agent pods under a subscription pricing construct

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coforge, an AI-native engineering services leader, has launched AI Mod Squads – a new delivery model with a simple monthly subscription fee. Mod Squads combine ...
Wall Street Journal

The Messy Human Drama That Dealt a Blow to One of AI’s Hottest Startups

Mira Murati’s meeting with her co-founders was going off the rails. Murati, the chief executive of AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, had shown up for work on Monday last week expecting to have a ...
talkandroid.com

The Best Roleplay Mods to Transform Your Minecraft Experience

Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles. If you make a purchase through these links, we will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more. Roleplay in ...
Wall Street Journal

AI Is Learning to Escape Human Control

An artificial-intelligence model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down. Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 ...
IGN

[UPDATE] Minecraft Studio Mojang Currently Has No Intention of Using Generative AI in Its Development Process

UPDATE: Microsoft has clarified that Minecraft developer Mojang currently has no intention of incorporating generative artificial intelligence into its game development process. The headline of this ...
TechCrunch

A high schooler built a website that lets you challenge AI models to a Minecraft build-off

As conventional AI benchmarking techniques prove inadequate, AI builders are turning to more creative ways to assess the capabilities of generative AI models. For one group of developers, that’s ...
MIT Technology Review

These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own

Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion. Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive—they thrived. They developed ...
The Washington Post

Lucy’s Legacy

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the ...