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Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/tencent-timi-montreal-closed

Tencent closes TiMi Montreal game studio
The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.

SPRIND Bürgerhackathon: Deutschland, was nervt?
Beschweren ausdrücklich erwünscht! Die Agentur für Sprunginnovation lädt zum ersten bürgerschaftlichen Hackathon nach taiwanischem Vorbild ein.
https://www.

TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion (Vivian Jones/The Tennessean)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/20/tennessee-bill-death-penalty-women-abortion/88777975007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p56#a260221p56

Why don't all militaries everywhere just ban fitness apps that connect to the internet?
Strava Data Leak: How a French Navy Officer’s Workout on the Strava App Exposed Aircraft Carrier Location Amid Iran War Tensions

Strava Data Leak: How a French Navy Officer’s Workout on the Strava App Exposed Aircraft Carrier Location Amid Iran War Tensions
French Navy faces security scare after Strava workout data exposed aircraft carrier location during Iran war tensions in Mediterranean Sea.

POL-GÖ: (54/2026) Widerstand und tätlicher Angriff bei Kontrollen in der Waffenverbotszone in der Göttinger Innenstadt - Ermittlungen gegen 26-Jährigen. Zwei Beamte nicht mehr dienstfähig Göttingen (ots) - Göttingen, Waageplatz / Reitstallstraße Sonntagmittag, 22. Februar 2026, gegen 12.30 Uhr GÖTTINGEN (ab) - Im Rahmen von Kontrollmaßnahmen in der Göttinger Waffenverbotszone ist es am heutigen Sonntagmittag (22.02.26) gegen ...

Calvin Tomkins, who, over six decades at the New Yorker, wrote dozens of profiles of artists like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely, has died at 100 (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/03/20/c…

Calvin Tomkins, who narrated the rise of contemporary art, dies at 100
During a six-decade career at the New Yorker, Mr. Tomkins profiled scores of artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencent-integrat…

Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-names-former…

OpenAI Names Former TML Staffer Zoph to Oversee Enterprise Push
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad ...

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...