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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: Paramount CEO David Ellison met with Trump last week for two conversations; Trump has said he will stay out of Netflix-Paramount competition for WBD (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/media/david-ellison-tr…

Trump met with David Ellison days before saying he’s ‘not involved’ in Paramount’s Netflix battle
The timing of the meetings — early last week — is notable because Trump was asked by NBC’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday about Paramount and Netflix’s battle for WBD, and he said, “I haven’t been involved.”

> Last Tuesday my kid came back from school, sat down and asked: “How does ChatGPT actually know what word comes next?” And I thought - great question. Terrible timing, because dinner was almost ready, but great question.
"So whats the next word, then?"
https://matthias-kainer.de/blog…

So whats the next word, then?
The maths behind Transformers, explained so that a 12-year-old (or your dad) can follow along

The timing of this act of piracy and theft by the USA's Trump regime is revealing: the day the Venezuelan coup supporter (who called for invasion of her country) incomprehensibly receives the Nobel peace prize.
It's theatre, but of an extremely ominous form.
US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'
The move is a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government.

We’re rewinding to the turn of the millennium this week with a track from alt-rock icons Placebo, back when eyeliner budgets were high and guitar tunings were morally ambiguous...
Check it out and see what we had to say about the track, the band behind it, and whatever other nonsense fell out of our heads in the process.
Follow us for more curated music picks from across the epic world of #rock

Placebo - Special K
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

Elon Musk Reacts to Apple and Google Teaming on Gemini-Powered Siri
Elon Musk today expressed concern about Apple and Google partnering on a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google's generative AI...

The painter Henri Rousseau
(1844–1910)
famously never left France;
He concocted his fantastical jungles from visits to the botanical gardens in Paris,
images in books and taxidermized specimens in natural history museums,
and a teeming visual imagination.
The results are on view in a mesmerizing exhibition,
“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets,”
at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia until Feb. 22.
These works haven’t been assembled …

The Barnes Foundation
A landmark exhibition of paintings by the self-taught artist Henri Rousseau debuts at the Barnes Foundation in fall 2025.

As Americans slept and Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader,
an inconvenient deadline was looming:
the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing,
“We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.”
“We have not forgott…

Key Epstein Deadline Arrives as Attention Turns to Venezuela
The House Oversight Dems noted the convenient timing of Trump’s surprise attack.

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

New reporting by
"The Information" has revealed some recent topics of conversation between #OpenAI employees as they work to supply #advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate.
The plans are not final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...