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Archive August 25, 2026 20:08 UTC
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Signal: The record is closing — pollution notices dropped, public comment ended, attribution called impossible — while the machines write the sources they will later cite.
OpenAI's Jalapeno Beats Blackwell on Watts and Speed
OpenAI's first custom inference chip returned more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the best silicon on sale, on SemiAnalysis's InferenceX benchmark — results OpenAI published itself, days before Nvidia's earnings.
SemiAnalysis: better than Blackwell, and maybe Rubin OpenAI built the chip in nine months, then let AI rewrite the code CNBC: Nvidia's hyperscaler concentration faces its earnings test

NEWAnthropic's $30T Market Is Counted in Wages
Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors its addressable market tops $30tn — above SpaceX's record $28.5tn, twelve times all listed US tech revenue — because it counts human labour, not software.
Gizmodo: a market the size of the entire US economy
NEWIsrael Funds a Think Tank Built for Chatbots
An ad firm paid by Israel has published 100-plus unbylined, AI-written articles behind an llms.txt file — content built not for readers but for the models that will later quote it.
OpenAI bans a Russian op pushing a different fake Israeli think tank
Chinese Hackers Doubled Attacks. DeepSeek Broke Into Nothing.
Taiwan's TeamT5 says state-backed groups more than doubled their volume after adopting DeepSeek for exploit code and reconnaissance — while Unit 42's own recovered session found every confirmed intrusion was still made by a human hand.
implicator.ai: the agent searched, reasoned, and breached nothing
Ghost Note The Robot Carnival Has a Handstand Act