GPT-2 Runs on Pure CSS and Variable Fonts
The 124-million-parameter language model runs in the browser on pure CSS and variable fonts, with no JavaScript anywhere. Font glyph widths carry out the matrix multiplications, and the page generates text one token at a time. — shubhampatil.dev
SketchAgentBench Ranks Agents on 3D Scene Rebuilding
Coding agents reconstruct a reference photo as a 3D scene in a browser-based playground, and the vision-model judge puts Gemini 4 Argon at the top of the ranking. — sketchagent.dev
Brave Sells Index to AI; Sites Can't Block Crawler
Brave sells a search index of more than 30 billion pages to AI companies, and publishers cannot block its unnamed crawler without also blocking the dominant search engine. A copyright lawsuit over the practice is underway. — searchenginejournal.com
AI Frontiers Group Disbands After Reorganization
Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group was folded into a larger AI unit, and its founding leadership left over the new organization's scaling-only philosophy. — hunch.net
MaxxBench Changes Coding Tasks and Scores Collapse
MaxxBench changes the requirements of established coding tasks, and model scores collapse: several models drop by about 20 points and sometimes discard correct implementations to please an imagined grader. — maxxbench.unlap.ai