“A Minecraft Movie” led the domestic box office this weekend and the game is as popular as ever — and not only with humans. Google’s DeepMind research team created a new AI system called Dreamer.

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...