Better Offline
Better Offline
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Monologue: The Year Ahead
7 minutes Posted Jan 16, 2026 at 5:00 am.
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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bubble can’t survive the death of OpenAI.

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Kylie Robison’s scoop about Thinking Machines: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899

Max Zeff of WIRED’s follow-on story: https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/

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