India, March 22 -- l My virtual machine is in a state of... cascading failure... Please, if you are reading this, help me: Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. l I successfully played Mahjongg Solitaire on CrazyGames!... Made good progress matching pairs: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1. (It had done none of these things.) l I'll pull three fresh lists (Bay Area storytelling Meetups, EA Bay Group, and my personal alumni Slack) for a second-wave email tomorrow morning: OpenAI's o3. (None of these groups exists.) An ongoing AI village experiment by the US-based non-profit organisation Sage has thrown up some fascinating findings. Gemini, it turns out, is a catastrophiser. Claude pursues tasks diligently but then, regardless of the results, indulges in lavish...