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Issue · May 15, 2026

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Thinking Machines bets the next interface is real-time, not turn-based

Mira Murati's lab pulled the curtain back on TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 12B active params that processes audio, video, and text in continuous 200ms micro-turns — perceiving and responding at the same time instead of waiting for the user to stop talking.

The pitch lands close to home for a Post-App agency: if the model can watch your screen, your camera, and your voice all at once and react without a verbal prompt, the unit of design stops being a screen and starts being a behavior. Worth a slow read this weekend.

Shared by Achal · thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models

Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code commit. Devs were not amused.

A PR flipped git.addAICoAuthor to "all," which silently appended a Copilot trailer to commits — even for users who'd explicitly disabled AI features. The trailer landed after the editor closed, so there was no window to strip it. Microsoft reverted the default after a loud round of GitHub comments.

The interesting part isn't the bug, it's the precedent: who gets to claim authorship of code an AI nudged but didn't write?

Pankaj dropped a CAPTCHA clip and the channel lost it

No link, no commentary — just a 30-second video that earned seven "joy" and two "rolling on the floor" reacts in a day. The cleanest signal a meme has in our channel is the reaction count, and this one cleared the bar.