Wednesday, July 15, 2026
ArchiveInkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Thinking Machines has said very little since it launched. Its first real answer is a model you can download and keep — a position as much as a product.
The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry With It?
Global EV sales are climbing and Detroit has stepped off the ride. Follow that choice to its end and you get an American car industry nobody outside America needs.
"The Odyssey" Movie Review
Nolan's Odysseus is legible, wounded and thoroughly modern — and that, the review argues, is exactly the problem. Read it before you buy the IMAX ticket.
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
Every orbital data center pitch waves at free solar and cold vacuum. The hard part turns out to be radiators: space is a genuinely terrible place to get rid of heat.
Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)
China built the trains and the bridges. Now it has to keep paying for all of them. This one is about the part of an infrastructure boom nobody puts on the poster.