Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks In Brief Posted: 9:52 PM PDT · May 11, 2026 Image Credits:Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu / Getty Images Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence,...

A teenage Minecraft YouTuber raised $1,234,567 for a meme prediction market called Giggles. It broke me. I cannot say with 100% certainty that nineteen-year-old Justin Jin is not pulling an elaborate prank on me. In my defense, Jin’s company Giggles – which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” – started as a joke. “This was around 2023, when TikTok was rumored to get...

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OpenAI to Launch ChatGPT 'Adult Mode' Despite Warnings From Its Own Advisers Users of the popular chatbot will eventually be allowed to have X-rated sexual chats. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being somewhat fascinated...