OpenAI showed off "Jalapeño," its first in-house inference chip, with benchmarks at the Hot Chips conference. According to SemiAnalysis tests, the chip beats Nvidia's Blackwell and even Rubin in throughput and energy efficiency. "Usually first generation chips aren't competitive, but OpenAI is beating Nvidia Blackwell and even Rubin," SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel said.

The UK becomes the first country to get access to Avengers Labs, Ukraine's platform holding roughly five million annotated combat images for training military AI. Three British startups are already working on pilot projects. The deal shows how real war data is systematically becoming the currency for building out autonomous weapons tech.

OpenAI has disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts by banning a cluster of accounts. The operators accessed the platform through VPNs from Russia and promoted the fictitious "International Burke Institute," including German-language Telegram content critical of the EU and the German government. The campaign's reach stayed small, but OpenAI warns the infrastructure behind it could have been scaled up over time.

With Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Google launches an AI solution for the legal industry that connects to systems like iManage, DocuSign, and Everlaw through MCP connectors. Partners like Deloitte sell ready-made AI agents for tasks like contract review. Anthropic already offers similar solutions. All providers use the same models as in their other products.

Meta Platforms will launch its AI agent Hatch in the coming weeks and release a new AI model called Watermelon in October.