Can ‘Applied Creativity’ be the next ‘Design Thinking?’

A new report from Accenture Song uncovers the secret sauce that makes Lego, Ikea, and Rivian creative powerhouses.
Times Higher Education

Assessing critical thinking in critical times

For example, inviting local employers to attend class presentations or changing a paper assignment to a class poster session requires students to display their critical thinking skills publicly, ...
9to5google

Gemini app rolling out ‘Extended’ thinking level, new 3rd-party app integrations

Ahead of I/O 2026, Google continues to roll out Gemini app features, with some users now seeing a “Thinking level” option. In the model picker, you’ll see a new “Thinking level” menu at the bottom of ...
9to5Mac

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2 image-gen model capable of magazine design

After dropping a teaser this morning, OpenAI is announcing its new image generation model for ChatGPT and Codex with ChatGPT Images 2. Prior to the livestream, OpenAI used this image as a holding ...
Psychology Today

How to Break a Loop of Stuck Thinking

Let me tell you a funny story: A few days ago, my 3-year-old told me she had a sore armpit. I asked her some questions, concerned. I assumed she'd strained her lats hanging from the jungle gym, or ...
Deccan Chronicle

Ignite 2026 focuses on design thinking, policy

Hyderabad: India’s first consumer research conference, Ignite 2026, here on Friday, spotlighted the intersection of public policy and design thinking. Jayesh Ranjan, special chief secretary, urged ...
VentureBeat

Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI's AI scaling strategy: 'First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner'

While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the ...
VentureBeat

Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) ...
9to5Mac

New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves for its blunt conclusion: even the most advanced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapse on complex tasks. But not ...
natural

Guest post: How ‘feedback loops’ and ‘non-linear thinking’ can inform climate policy

This guest post is by: Dr Jan Rosenow, energy programme leader at the University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute and senior advisor at the Regulatory Assistance Project. The global shift ...
The Straits Times

Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?

Artificial intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain’s role in daily life? The Industrial Revolution diminished the need for ...