When a historic UK-based retailer set out to modernize its IT environment, it was wrestling with systems that had grown organically for more than 175 years. Prior digital transformation efforts had resulted in a patchwork of hundreds of integration flows spanning cloud, on-premises systems, and third-party vendors, all communicating across multiple protocols. The company needed…
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared…
Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive — they thrived. They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a religion. The experiment played out on the open-world gaming platform Minecraft, where up to 1000 software agents at a time used large language models (LLMs)…