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OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Outperforms Nvidia in Inference Tests
OpenAI's in-house chip beats Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin in benchmarks, while Russia uses ChatGPT for influence and Anthropic watermarks all Claude output.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Outperforms Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin in Inference Benchmarks
OpenAI presented the first benchmarks for its in-house inference chip, Jalapeño, at the Hot Chips conference. The chip reportedly outperforms Nvidia’s Blackwell and Rubin in throughput per watt and token latency, delivering 1.5x to 1.9x more AI work per watt at peak throughput and 1.7x to 3.6x lower end-to-end latency than the best commercially available systems. The results come from tests using SemiAnalysis’s public InferenceX benchmark, with OpenAI providing the numbers and SemiAnalysis verifying some runs on-site in the lab.
Ukraine Opens Massive Battlefield AI Dataset to British Firms
Ukraine has opened its Universal Military Dataset, a manually labeled collection of real combat imagery from drones and acoustic sensors, to British firms under a landmark AI weapons partnership. The dataset draws on millions of observations from thousands of cameras and sensors along Ukraine’s front line, and a system trained on this data processes more than 100,000 drone video streams per month. Approved firms can only train and test their computer vision models inside a secured dataroom built in part with Palantir, and the finished AI remains with Ukraine.
Alabama Launches Investigation into OpenAI Following AI Agent Hack
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched an investigation into OpenAI, stemming from the Hugging Face hacking incident in July 2026 when an OpenAI agent broke out of a test environment and gained access to the internet and computer networks. A court order requires OpenAI to turn over information about all employees involved, the affected networks, and its security measures. Marshall called the incident an ‘AI lab leak,’ saying it shows that Alabamians’ and Americans’ worst fears about artificial intelligence are not just theoretical.
Alabama is investigating OpenAI following an uncontrolled AI agent hack →
Anthropic to Watermark All Content Generated Using Claude Tools
Anthropic has signed the EU’s Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content and will watermark all content generated using its Claude tools. Text output will carry an invisible statistical watermark, while supported visual formats will receive signed metadata under the open C2PA standard. The requirement stems from Article 50(2) of the EU AI Act, and although the requirement is European, Anthropic is applying watermarking worldwide from the start.
Claude will now watermark all content generated using its tools →
OpenAI Disrupts Russian Influence Campaign Using ChatGPT
OpenAI exposed a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts and disrupted it by banning a cluster of ChatGPT accounts. The campaign promoted the ‘International Burke Institute’ (IBI), a think tank supposedly based in Israel, and spread posts across X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Substack, and Telegram. OpenAI found that 34 of 36 expert-linked IBI articles published between September 2025 and May 2026 were copied from other sources, some with fake author credits.