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https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

Thinking Machines stellt sein erstes KI-Modell „Inkling“ vor
Thinking Machines steigt mit Inkling in den Wettbewerb offener KI-Modelle ein und setzt dabei auf Anpassbarkeit statt Spitzenleistung.
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Thinking Machines stellt sein erstes KI-Modell „Inkling“ vor
Thinking Machines steigt mit Inkling in den Wettbewerb offener KI-Modelle ein und setzt dabei auf Anpassbarkeit statt Spitzenleistung.

A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.
The only problem is that doing this was always pointless
This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.

Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product
Your first idea for how to solve a problem is most likely to be a low-impact hack. Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.

I can cry on demand by thinking about how I'll never be able to pet all of them 😭

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/…

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.

I'm thinking about Stalin's pipe of himself playing chess against FDR again. You just know he was the most annoying motherfucker. Intentionally smokes it when playing chess against a guest for meta effect before hitting 'em with the most banal existentialisms delivered as if profound

Republicans are all abuzz about socialism because the party’s political prospects look dire this fall.
Donald Trump’s approval ratings are in the thirties,
Americans are experiencing surging energy prices,
and Trump and other Republicans are engaged in open corruption while cutting vital government programs.
They need something, and in a pinch, socialism has always been the go-to emergency button for the right to push.

Why the GOP loves to use ‘communism’ as an attack
Explaining the Right this week explores why Republicans keep trying to scare people into thinking Democrats want communism.

Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its "most advanced live dialogue models yet", to more effectively enable voice agents (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/mod…

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.