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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help

18 October 2026 at 12:39

Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or strategies, they coordinated on their own, wrote 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, and died 605 times. The session cost $1,620.

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AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it

18 October 2026 at 08:49

Illustration: A fork holds data and molecule symbols and feeds them into a colorful, wire-connected AI testing system.

A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the right path on just under 60 percent of simple binary questions. Thinking longer doesn't help.

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