Various LLMs attempt to render a clock

Various LLMs attempt to render a clock

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Google Blog: A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3. “Gemini 2 laid the foundation for agentic capabilities and pushed the frontiers on reasoning and thinking, helping with more complex tasks and ideas, leading to Gemini 2.5 Pro topping LMArena for over six months. And now we’re introducing Gemini…
Associated Press: Roblox steps up age checks and groups younger users into age-based chats. “Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to chat with other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to communicate with people around…
Mashable: Why does Google AI Overviews say ‘Call of Duty 7’ doesn’t exist? Wishful thinking, perhaps. . “For the past few months, searching ‘Black Ops 7’ on Google has returned a bizarre response from the search engine’s Gemini-powered AI Overview, which insists the game doesn’t exist.”
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The Malaysian Reserve: Libraries showcase new roles as social hubs, downtown boosters. “Sited in the middle of a once-sleepy 1960s strip mall, the 25,000 sq ft facility is a major expansion over the previous branch library and it has an ambitious goal: To serve as a vibrant community anchor…
Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It’s a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: “Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder and BAM — your site was live for the whole world to see. No build steps. No frameworks. No deployment pipelines.…
Calishat: Turning Wikipedia Into a Word Game: Wiki Stack Game. “Wiki Stack Game starts you off with a big handful of random words. Your objective is to add words to a Wikipedia search with the goal of making the query as long as possible while still getting results.”
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