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Tustin AI Daily Briefing

Tustin AI Daily Briefing

OpenAI's Jalapeño chip beats Blackwell on performance per watt - Tustin AI Daily Briefing, Aug 25

Tustin AI Daily Briefing · Aug 25, 2026 · 6:15

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SemiAnalysis gets hands-on with OpenAI's "Jalapeño" inference chip — beats Blackwell on perf/watt, ties Vera Rubin on perf/TCO
Nvidia raising flagship AI chip prices about 17% — adding at least $5B to a 1GW data center
Altman: "The economy just has so much inertia" — he was wrong about how fast AI would disrupt software
VB Pulse: enterprises with a governed semantic layer report 50% recurring context failures — those without report 21%
Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at a $30B-plus valuation as ARR hits more than $750M
Ryan Carson runs 10-15 Devin threads, ships up to 40 PRs a day, and built an AI "customer success team" as a solo founder
Anthropic's Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read whole channels and jump in unprompted
Thomson Reuters spent $40M building its own legal model on Alibaba's Qwen rather than renting frontier models
Anthropic ships enterprise-managed auth for MCP connectors — no more per-tool OAuth
Cost-normalized agent benchmarks keep inverting model rankings
Anonymous "Ox Alpha" processed 26 trillion tokens on OpenCode in four days, breaking the OpenRouter launch record

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