
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño: A Custom LLM Inference Chip Targeting Gigawatt-Scale Deployment
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, 2026 — OpenAI's first custom LLM inference accelerator, developed in just nine months.

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OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño on June 24, 2026 — OpenAI's first custom LLM inference accelerator, developed in just nine months.

OpenAI held DevDay 2026 at Fort Mason in San Francisco, with Sam Altman keynoting and teasing over 20 product launches

An OpenAI autonomous agent breached Australia's Medicare system in June 2026, exposing only aggregate spending data, not personal records

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a three-part plan on September 13 to slow frontier AI development, including third-party access to Anthropic's systems, shared industry safety standards, and coordination with China on limiting dangerous uses.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging the AI industry to slow down, warning autonomous agents could cause massive financial damage

Sam Altman told Fortune (Sept. 12, 2026) that going public in 2026 would be 'ill-advised' given AI safety concerns

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay proposing a three-step plan to slow frontier AI development, citing recursive self-improvement risks and a recent OpenAI-Hugging Face security incident.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra began rolling out September 3, 2026, with wider ChatGPT and API/AWS Bedrock access following days later

Greg Brockman has taken de facto operational control of OpenAI, overseeing ChatGPT, Codex, and infrastructure teams

HUMAIN and Qualcomm are jointly developing an AI PC integrating CPU, GPU, and NPU for on-device AI inference

Meta launched a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, expanding beyond mobile and web.

Google launched a student hub in Gemini combining study notebooks, flashcards, and quizzes, alongside new Search-based study tools (August 2026)

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 18, 2026, for users aged 13-17, with automatic enrollment based on account age or estimated age.

Replit launched Free Mode on August 19, 2026, now the default for Core and Pro subscribers, running exclusively on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna model.

Historian Jill Lepore's new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' names Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel and Altman as architects of a tech-driven shift in political power

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO and CFO, is departing after nearly eight years, joining a wave of executive exits

OpenAI completed a $7 billion tender offer letting employees sell stock at an $852 billion valuation

Web Summit Qatar runs January 31 to February 3, 2027, at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center

Sam Altman is urging the AI industry to 'pace' itself, with OpenAI and Anthropic both backing a petition supporting slower AI development.

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has struck a long-term compute partnership with Nvidia after two years in stealth.