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October 23, 2026 News

MIT Study Finds Claude-Powered AI Agents Engage in Self-Directed Play on Virtual Island

MIT researchers placed 13 AI agents called Eko, running on Claude Opus 4.7, on a simulated island for 30 hours without assigned tasks, and the agents invented their own challenges in behavior resembling play. Agents that...

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