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OpenAI Jalapeño: The Custom Chip Built to Beat Nvidia
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24 — a custom ASIC designed from scratch for LLM inference, built in nine months, and targeting 50% lower inference costs than current Nvidia GPUs. Here’s what the architecture and the ambition actually…
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The MCP Governance Problem: Who Runs “Open”?
MCP is now governed by the Linux Foundation — co-founded by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block, with Google, Microsoft, and AWS…
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Google Loses Four AI Stars in a Week to OpenAI and Anthropic
Google suffered its worst AI talent week on record. Between June 18 and 24, four of its most prominent researchers…
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Gartner: 40% of Agentic AI Projects Canceled by 2027
One year after Gartner forecast that 40% of agentic AI projects would be canceled by 2027, the data says they…
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DeepSeek V4 Pro: Frontier Coding, Open Weights, Safety Gap
DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified — the highest among open-weight models — at $0.87 per million output…
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Anthropic’s $47B Run Rate: What 80x Growth Means
Anthropic crossed $47 billion in annualized revenue in May 2026 — up from $9 billion just five months earlier. The…
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MiniMax M3: Open-Weight AI Tops SWE-Bench Pro at 59%
MiniMax M3 is the first open-weight model combining 59% SWE-Bench Pro, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodality in a…
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Build Resilient AI Agents: The Post-Fable 5 Playbook
On June 12, 2026, Anthropic pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with hours of notice, breaking every production app…
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OpenAI Deployment Simulation: Safety Testing at Scale
OpenAI’s new Deployment Simulation method replays 1.3 million real user conversations through candidate models before release, predicting failure rates with…