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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…

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, ...

🇺🇦 #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

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…

"wINdoWs jUst wOrkS"
Windows suddenly can't find the external monitor, and the settings dialog freezes.
#TimjanGrumpsOnComputers

Canada-U.S.: why some snowbirds* are flying farther south
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/article/didnt-like-us-canadians-snowbirds-say-tensions-between-canada-us-led-to-changes-in-travel-itinerary/
* “Snowbird” refers to Canadians who spend their winters in sunny climates, which include Florida, Arizona, Texas, as well as other sunny U.S. locales.
The climate has changed ...

Today I have procrastinated by rearranging books. I have far too many for such a small house.
(Doing this reminded me of a piece by a #Palestinian academic I read recently. He has just started teaching again, but all his books have been lost or destroyed. To be without my books would be very hard for me)

E-Autos laden ist nicht wie Tanken – und genau das macht die Sache kompliziert. 🚗⚡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11111843

Global Asias and Francosphères: Intersections, Exchanges, Tensions https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/global-asias-and-francosphères-intersections-exchanges-tensions