Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'

An Apache 2.0 designation makes Inkling a true open-source foundation. This gives developers the legal freedom to download, ...
Decrypt

Stop Over-Prompting: OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Guidelines Change Everything

Forget the XML blocks and persistence scripts. OpenAI’s new prompt guide says define the destination, set conditions, and get ...
The New Yorker

Hua Hsu

Shiva Naipaul’s newly reissued book of reportage, “Journey to Nowhere,” from 1980, is far less interested in the trope of the charismatic cult leader than in the mechanisms of belief.