Y Combinator runs GPT-6.1 agent swarms in Minecraft
Fifty agents sent about 5,900 messages, formed a hierarchy, and recorded 34 deaths, 22 on the first night.
Fifty agents sent about 5,900 messages, formed a hierarchy, and recorded 34 deaths, 22 on the first night.
It scores 85.0% on MineStudio Bench and 37.4% average success on OpenHA, and can craft an iron pickaxe from scratch.
One hundred twenty runs span 0.8B–27B models, 50–1,600 hours of data, and five world mixtures.
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents autonomously defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 27 hours using only Mineflayer.
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents autonomously defeated Minecraft's Ender Dragon in 27 hours using Mineflayer.
MC-EvoBench tests whether Minecraft agents convert experience into durable capabilities that transfer across reset worlds.
Attacca improves long-horizon Minecraft agents to 39-47.5% clean success, up to 7x better on extended tasks.
Frontier coding agents edit Minecraft and Terraria worlds, but reliability falls as intervention depth grows.
Huntress found fake GTA 6 installer ISOs spreading NJRAT, DCRAT, Mercurial Grabber and a Chaos ransomware wiper that steals credentials.
Malwarebytes data shows scammers tailor fraud by platform: 90% of toll scams arrive via email/SMS and MrBeast is now the most impersonated person.
Attackers keep distributing WeedHack malware through fake Minecraft clients even though the original infrastructure was taken down in July.
McAfee Labs reports Weedhack malware spread via spoofed Minecraft client websites using SEO poisoning, with over 6,300 blocked access attempts.
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