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Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
WIRED • • business
Key Points:
- Bose is collaborating with Skullcandy to improve the latter's headphones, aiming to enhance audio quality and noise cancellation and shift the brand away from its bargain-bin reputation.
- Smoke from about 100 uncontrolled wildfires in Ontario, Canada, is traveling over 1,000 miles, turning skies a sickly orange across the eastern United States.
- Intel officials predict that the Pentagon’s expenses related to the Iran war will surpass $100 billion, though the Trump administration has not released any official cost estimates.
- Meta has provided conflicting statements regarding the existence of its NameTag face recognition technology following a report by WIRED, leading to confusion about the system’s development status.
- Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-source AI model designed to understand video and audio, positioning the company as a competitor to major AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI.
