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A source close to Thinking Machines alleged that ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.

Ukrainian veteran politician Yulia Tymoshenko's party offices searched in corruption investigation, source says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/ukrainian-veteran-politician-yulia-tymoshenkos.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
The Magnetic Fields:
🎵 Sad Little Moon
#TheMagneticFields
https://themagneticfields.bandcamp.com/track/sad-little-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/5vCilUgr2rpyklEUE0jcDA

Brainwaves: Is AI actually thinking?
Brainwaves: Is AI actually thinking? On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti Duration: 35:28 Published: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:00:00 -0500 Episode: Media: Podcast:
https://oakfire.com/2026/02/brainwaves-is-ai-actually-thinking/

Drei #Astronauten der aktuellen Shenzhou-21-Mission befinden sich derzeit ohne intaktes Rückkehrfahrzeug auf der chinesischen #Raumstation #Tiangong.
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Three astronauts are stuck on China’s space station without a safe ride home
“This does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”…

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/tinker-general-availability/

Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input
Today we are announcing four updates to Tinker: No more waitlist New reasoning model: Kimi K2 Thinking New inference interface that is compatible with the OpenAI API Vision input support with Qwen3-VL General availability The waitlist is over! Everybody can use Tinker now; sign up here to get started. See the Tinker homepage for available models and pricing, and check out the Tinker cookbook for code examples. More reasoning with Kimi K2 Thinking Users can now fine-tune Kimi K2 Thinking on Ti…

Ok, so this is a long one…
The first entry of 2026 in my ongoing series of #ThinkingOutLoud about #ArtsPedagogy touches on Dewey, Vygotsky and scaffolding, and the micro-phenomenological interview as outlined by Claire Petitmengin. And tries to tie it all to film education.
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Three Free Agents the Raiders Should Be Thinking About https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-three-free-agents-should-be-thinking-about

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to "unethical conduct" (Kylie Robison/@kyliebytes)
https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899

Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) on X
BREAKING: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at an all-hands with employees today. Soumith Chintala will be taking over as CTO.

Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-poaches-bytedance-…

Tencent Poaches ByteDance Researchers as China AI Race Heats Up
Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept China’s technology sector, one giant—Tencent—seemed to mostly be sitting on the sidelines. The company, which owns the hugely popular WeChat app, didn’t seem enthusiastic to win a fierce race in the country to develop cutting-edge AI models, ...