☕️ OpenAI reveals its first AI processor

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🌶️ OpenAI reveals its first AI processor

💬 Anthropic puts Claude inside your Slack channels

🎲 Meta is building a prediction markets app

🚀 SpaceX secretly launches its new Starfall capsule

⚖️ Alibaba sues Pentagon to escape military blacklist

🎁 + 14 other news you might like

🧰 + 6 trending tools

🌶️ OpenAI reveals its first AI processor LINK

OpenAI has revealed Jalapeño, its first custom chip built in partnership with Broadcom, an "intelligence processor" designed to run AI inference for current and future large language models on AI servers.

Jalapeño is an ASIC made for AI inference, the process where models handle a user's request to run an agent like Codex or give a ChatGPT response, rather than training on data.

OpenAI calls the chip the first step in a multi-generation compute platform that it plans to deploy by the end of 2026, with early testing showing better performance per watt than current options.

💬 Anthropic puts Claude inside your Slack channels LINK

Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a product that puts Claude directly inside Slack channels as a permanent team member that gathers knowledge over time, works on its own schedule, and can act without being tagged first.

Available in beta for Enterprise and Team plans, Claude Tag gives each channel one shared Claude with its own identity and accounts, so any team member can steer, correct, and build on a task in real time.

Administrators define what Claude can access at the workspace level through "agent identity," set token spending ceilings per channel, and keep shared channels from becoming a backdoor into anyone's private documents since Claude uses its own accounts.

🎲 Meta is building a prediction markets app LINK

Mark Zuckerberg has told a small Meta team to build a smartphone app called Arena that would compete with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, operating separately from Facebook and Instagram, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Arena would start with a video-game-style points system instead of real-money wagers, which sidesteps oversight from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, though Meta has not ruled out adding real-money betting later.

Meta could steer its roughly 3 billion monthly active users toward Arena, a scale that dwarfs existing platforms, and the news sent DraftKings down more than 2 percent while Flutter Entertainment and Robinhood also fell.

🚀 SpaceX secretly launches its new Starfall capsule LINK

SpaceX quietly flew its new Starfall return capsule for the first time on June 23, launching aboard a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral and cutting the webcast about 10 minutes after liftoff.

According to an FAA assessment, the disk-shaped, uncrewed Starfall stands 2.5 feet tall, weighs roughly 4,600 pounds, carries 2,200 pounds of payload, and uses a detachable carbon-fiber heat shield filled with compressed nitrogen gas.

The capsule carries no propulsion and cannot deorbit itself, and SpaceX is targeting a Pacific Ocean splashdown about 700 nautical miles off the West Coast, though it has not said how long the vehicle will stay in orbit.

⚖️ Alibaba sues Pentagon to escape military blacklist LINK

Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense to be taken off the Pentagon's 1260H list, which names companies allegedly tied to the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The Defense Department labeled Alibaba a "military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base" over its ties to Beijing regulators, while the updated list also includes internet services provider Baidu.

Being on the list bars the Defense Department from doing business with Alibaba through third parties, and the company says it presented evidence it does not back the Chinese military but got no response.

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