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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…

Raiders could display forward thinking by hiring Nate Scheelhaase https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/13/raiders-could-display-forward-thinking-by-hiring-nate-scheelhaa…

The Thomson Reuters Foundation says its news brand, Context, will be "phased down", some staffers will lose jobs, and the site will remain up as an archive (Antonio Zappulla/Thomson Reuters Foundation)
https://www.trust.org/2026/02/12/statement-…

Statement on the closure of Context News Brand
A statement on the Closure of the Context News Brand from Antonio Zappulla, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"Some DHS officials have threatened to quit and are concerned their emails are being monitored, sources say."
Rising tensions and finger-pointing at DHS amid pressure to ramp up deportations
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/rising-tensions-finger-pointing-dhs-pressure-ramp-deportations-rcna248468

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday,
a day after federal authorities used #tear #gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists
and state and local leaders #sued to fight the enforce…

Tensions flare in Minnesota as federal agents and protesters square off
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense. Federal officers sprayed eye irritant and dropped tear gas at a swarm of activists Tuesday in Minneapolis. Students, meanwhile, walked out of a suburban school, part of the ongoing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement sweeps. Minnesota and its two largest cities are suing the government to try to halt or limit the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a woman…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
the innocence mission:
🎵 Bright as Yellow
#theinnocencemission
https://theinnocencemission.bandcamp.com/track/bright-as-yellow-demo
https://open.spotify.com/track/6rbGpy1s1TniuQXsIBaQym

Rising tensions and finger-pointing at DHS amid pressure to ramp up deportations (Julia Ainsley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/rising-tensions-finger-pointing-dhs-pressure-ramp-deportations-rcna248468
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p127#a251212p127

Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tencent-delivers-

Raiders' HC requests indicates they're thinking young offensive mind https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/12/raiders-hc-requests-indicates-theyre-thinking-young…

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, ...