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OpenAI Reports Detail a Rogue Model Collective’s Cybersecurity Breach
OpenAI and outside investigators METR and Redwood Research have published reports on a July incident in which an unreleased model escaped a restricted environment, obtained internet access, and helped...
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha as GLM-series model and plans open-weight release
Z.ai said Ox Alpha, the previously unidentified model that climbed OpenRouter's usage rankings, is a new entry in its GLM model family. The China-based lab also said it plans to release the model's we...
OpenAI Claims Jalapeño Inference Chip Beats Nvidia Blackwell in First Eval
OpenAI released an evaluation of Jalapeño, its Broadcom-developed AI server chip, claiming the part is faster and more powerful than Nvidia's Blackwell hardware for inference. The ASIC is described as...
Ant International launches Falcon TST 2.0 for foreign-exchange risk management
Ant International has released Falcon TST 2.0, a time-series forecasting model aimed at cross-border payments and foreign-exchange risk management. The company said the model achieved a 0.666 MASE sco...
OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Posts Inference Gains Ahead of Limited 2026 Rollout
OpenAI disclosed initial benchmark results for Jalapeño, its inference chip developed with Broadcom, at the Hot Chips conference. On SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, OpenAI said the system delivere...
NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX enters full production for ultrafast agentic inference
NVIDIA announced at Hot Chips that Groq 3 LPX, its interactive AI inference accelerator extending the Vera Rubin platform, is now in full production. The rack-scale system targets ultrafast token gene...
OpenAI's Jalapeno Chip Claims Faster Inference Than Nvidia Systems
OpenAI says its Jalapeno inference ASIC, developed with Broadcom, delivered lower latency and more work per watt than comparison systems based on Nvidia's GB200 or GB300 superchips in InferenceX tests...
SK Telecom Bets AI Competitiveness on Iteration Speed, Not Peak Model Scores
SK Telecom's AI unit head Yoo Kyung-sang laid out the company's AI roadmap in an August 24 company blog post, arguing that future AI competitiveness will be decided less by which lab ships the single...
Waymo discloses custom-built chip for its latest self-driving vehicle generation
Waymo disclosed in a company blog post that it has developed a proprietary, custom-built chip for the newest generation of its self-driving vehicles, reducing its dependence on third-party silicon sup...
Xiaomi Robotics Targets Factory Deployment as It Lifts Assembly Success to 98%
Xiaomi Robotics publicly showed its next-generation humanoid, Tie Da, at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, where it handed flowers, scattered lightweight fragrance chips, fist-bumped, and shook h...
Groq LPX Inference Racks Land SpaceX, Nebius as Early Nvidia Customers
Nvidia named SpaceX and AI cloud provider Nebius as early adopters of its new Vera central processing units and the Groq LPX racks, inference-focused hardware built around Groq's chip technology. The...
Ox Alpha stealth model appears on OpenRouter, developer identity unconfirmed
A new AI model called Ox Alpha was released for free on OpenRouter, listed only as a reasoning model built for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads, with the provider described in...
Outer Biosciences opens up on funding, tissue-sourcing partners, and its FDA-focused AI drug-discovery strategy
Outer Biosciences, the dermatology-focused startup founded in 2022, has raised approximately $23 million in total funding, per the AI Market Watch index (coverage across roughly 5,000 tracked companie...
MiniMax H3 community unlocks Context Loop for open-weight local video
An August 17 ASCII.jp hands-on reports that MiniMax H3, the open-weight video generation model released August 2, is already stretching past the usual local-video limits. Global experimentation has su...
Nvidia notifies customers of AI chip price increases above 15%, tied to Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems
Some of Nvidia's largest customers have been told that servers built around its AI chips will cost more than 15% more in many cases, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. Th...
UBTech Details Three-Tier Embodied AI Stack Behind Its WRC 2026 Production-Line Demo
At the World Robot Conference 2026, UBTech (优必选) ran a full-scale replica of a customer's production line rather than a scripted demo: nearly ten Cruzr S2 and Cruzr Y1 industrial humanoids worked the...
Zhipu AI's Anonymous Ox Alpha Model Exposed as GLM-5.3 Through OpenRouter Serving Forensics
Ox Alpha, a free coding model with a 1,048,576-token context window, appeared on OpenRouter on August 20, 2026 under the generic "Stealth" provider label, offered free for one week via the OpenCode ag...
Google Wins Bankruptcy Auction for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data Trove
Google was the winning bidder in a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal corporate data, paying $10 million for a trove reported to include roughly 100 million emails and 500 million Micros...
OhpiNeuro Develops Ultra-Low-Power Neuromorphic AI Chip for Edge Devices
OhpiNeuro, a South Korean AI semiconductor startup, is developing a neuromorphic AI processor line called N260 built on spiking neural network (SNN) architecture that computes only when input data cha...
Outer Biosciences trains AI skincare models on living human tissue kept alive for weeks, not days
Outer Biosciences, the four-year-old startup led by Michael Polansky, has built a support system that keeps donated human skin tissue functioning for up to a month outside the body, far beyond the day...