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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

The Verge / 04 October 2026 / 6h ago

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StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]

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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

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