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OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, a Custom LLM Inference Chip to Cut Compute Costs and Reduce Nvidia Dependence
OpenAI and Broadcom pulled the wrapper off Jalapeño on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, a custom silicon accelerator that OpenAI is calling its first “Intelligence Processor” and its first…
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SubQ 1.1 Small Explained: How Subquadratic Sparse Attention Hits 98% Retrieval at 12 Million Tokens With 64.5x Less Compute Than Dense Attention
Subquadratic, a frontier AI research and infrastructure company, has released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context language model built on a new…
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OpenAI’s Leaked 2025 Financials: $34 Billion in Spending, a $38.5 Billion Net Loss, and a $17 Billion Microsoft Bill Ahead of Its IPO
OpenAI’s audited 2025 financials leaked this week, and they are the clearest picture yet of what it actually costs to run the company behind ChatGPT. Independent journalist Ed…
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Lloyd Blankfein on the 3 Sectors Where He Puts His Money Now: Big Tech, Energy, and Financial Services, Day Trading From an iPad, and the Warren Buffett Handshake That Backed Goldman in 2008
Lloyd Blankfein spent almost 40 years at Goldman Sachs, the last dozen as its chairman and chief executive, and he still trades almost every day from an iPad.…
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US Government Orders Anthropic to Suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Inside the Export Control Directive, the Jailbreak Dispute, and What It Means for Frontier AI
On June 12, 2026, Anthropic published a statement announcing that the US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive forcing the company to suspend…
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SpaceX IPO Priced at $135 Per Share: SPCX Raises $75 Billion in the Largest IPO in History, Trading Begins June 12 on Nasdaq
TLDR SpaceX confirmed the pricing of its initial public offering on June 11, 2026: 555,555,555 shares of Class A common stock at $135.00 per share, a raise of…
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Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade Crypto and Pay Autonomously, and Why Agentic Finance Is Massively Bullish for Bitcoin
Coinbase just fired the starting gun on agentic finance. With the launch of Coinbase for Agents, announced June 11, 2026, you can now connect your favorite AI agent…
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Ray Kurzweil Predicts AI Will Change Humanity Completely by 2030: AGI by 2029, Longevity Escape Velocity by 2032, Nanobots in the Brain, and Why Quantum Computing Won’t Matter
Ray Kurzweil has spent more than 60 years studying artificial intelligence and made 147 documented technology predictions since 1990 with a reported 86 percent accuracy rate. In this…
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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Alex Rives on CZI Biohub, Open-Source AI, and Building World Models of Biology to Cure All Disease
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and AI researcher Alex Rives sat down with the No Priors podcast to explain why CZI Biohub became the primary focus of their philanthropy,…
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Dario Amodei on Policy for the AI Exponential: Anthropic’s Plan for AI Regulation, Job Displacement, Civil Liberties, and Democratic Leadership
In June 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published “Policy on the AI Exponential”, a wide-ranging essay arguing that the gap between how fast AI is advancing and how…
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Bill Gurley on Mental Models, Systems Thinking, AI Investing, Stablecoins, and the Future of Venture Capital
Bill Gurley spent his career at Benchmark backing some of the most consequential marketplaces and network-effect businesses of the internet era, including Uber, and he is one of…
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Benedict Evans on the Economics of AI Usage, Why Foundation Models May Become Commodities, and What Comes Next for SaaS
Benedict Evans returns to the a16z podcast to update the thesis behind his widely read “AI eats the world” presentation, and the picture he paints is less about…