SITUATION EXPLAINED: Thinking Machines is funding safety research on open weights. • Tinker grants of up to $50,000 in credits, following the Inkling and Inkling-Small open-weights release • Differential acceleration: can you fine-tune a model to improve defensive skills while minimally improving offensive ones, and is the asymmetry genuine rather than sandbagging • Classifiers that identify hazardous training data at scale without discarding large amounts of benign scientific or technical…