ai put minecraft in skyrim (and open ai had a dev day)
AI news this week: Claude Opus 5.5 is modding every video game plus OpenAI DevDay's Dots & GPT-6.1 Sol.
On today's AI For Humans, Kevin Pereira and Gavin Purcell dig into cheaper, faster coding agents allowing people to take games apart and stitching them back together: Skate 3 skateboarding inside Modern Warfare 2, Minecraft and Mario in Dark Souls and even Sega's Seaman. We explain what's actually happening under the hood (mods vs. decompiles vs. two game engines talking to each other), check out Rehan Sheikh's Universal Modder toolkit.
Also: OpenAI's DevDay brought Dots, always-on agents