Artificial Analysis has a leaderboard of the top models. I'm surprised to see Gemini Argon not on the list, but then I see Gemini Carbon. I guess that's Google's latest model now. I've felt that Argon was truly the best, at least in terms of coding. It picked up things that Claude 5.5 Opus missed and told me about some security issues that no one has ever mentioned before. This chart has changed since this morning.
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Logitech launches MX Master 4 Developer Edition mouse. It seems to be just a cosmetic change. Nothing new under the hood, which is a disappointment.
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The Rise of the Lone Scientist Under Agentic AI. This is interesting. More papers are appearing that are solo efforts. Science and math used to be like that, where a single person, sponsored by a wealthy benefactor, would do research and publish discoveries. Lately, it's been almost impossible to do. You have to be affiliated with a university or recognized corporation to be taken seriously. But in the era of AI, this may not be necessary in all cases. Paper here.
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How AI could work in hospitals. This is one of the best discussions I've read about the realities of AI penetration into healthcare, at least in the hospital setting. This is a tough area for AI to get a handhold.
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Has the AI bubble burst in China? I'm not sensing anything new happening just yet.
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Sad. An Oregon fiber optic company wants to invest in Oregon, but Kotek's datacenter moratorium puts a stop to that.
Here's what's interesting: Explore Health, the new healthcare exchance in Oregon, is set to open for business soon. That will require cloud computing, meaning datacenter dependence. So on one hand, datacenter expansion is put on hold, but the state wants to use more cloud compute.
The whole reason for even doing this is one of the examples of why the government shouldn't be running healthcare. Explore Health will be mainly for people who don't qualify for Medicaid. This government entity will try to get Advance Premium Tax Credit from the federal government and unlock cost-sharing reductions. It's basically a search engine for health plans. The reason why this is needed is because under Obamacare, consumers can't apply to private insurance for these discounts themselves. Apparently the federal government under Trump tried to allow this, and it led to multimillion dollar fraud. One thing I didn't know was that using the HealthCare,gov exchange takes 1.2% to 2% user fee for using their website. It's the Federal User Fee, so Oregon figures that it can get that money instead of it going to Washington D.C. All this because the state hasn't been able to figure out how to make private insurance more transparent, so consumers can do this shopping by themselves. And there is concern that if private insurers implement a user-friendly way to select health plans, they will steer people to more expensive and profitable plans. So we have to have middle-men, brokers, to try to get people to a good healthcare plan. All this because we don't have a free market healthcare system. Instead we have a heavily-subsidized cartel of insurance companies, layers of federal and state exchanges, while federal and state mandates jack up costs which passed to the consumer.
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Seattle's Harborview Hospital expansion was projected to cost $1.74 billion. Now, it's $3 billion and rising. How to pay for this? Having more billionaires and millionaires in the city could have helped. But oh well.
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Portland’s Royal Sonesta Hotel: bought for $108.3M in 2016. Now reportedly sold for $6.83M – a staggering 93.7% price collapse. No one wants to invest in Portland.
According to Price Waterhouse Coopers, Portland ranked 80th of 81 cities for 2026 in terms of real-estate market opportunity. No wonder real estate is taking huge losses. Vote accordingly.
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