OpenAI launches an Admin plugin that makes workspace changes from chat
OpenAI shipped an Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex on August 25, letting admins read usage data and change workspace settings inside one conversation.
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OpenAI benchmarks its Jalapeño chip at 1.9x more AI work per watt
OpenAI published the first InferenceX benchmark results for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip, claiming 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt than the Nvidia GB200 and GB300 systems it was measured against.
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Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local agent with no token fees
Perplexity Portable Computer runs on-device on an Nvidia DGX Spark, charges no token fees for local work, and reaches Windows RTX machines in September.
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Anthropic rents $45B of Nscale compute for 460MW in West Virginia
Anthropic has signed a reported $45 billion, six-year deal to rent about 460 megawatts of Nvidia Vera Rubin capacity from Nscale in West Virginia. Neither company has announced it.
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IBM launches Granite 4.2 reasoning models in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes
IBM released Granite 4.2 on August 25, 2026 in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes under Apache 2.0. Only the 8B and 30B got the agentic reinforcement learning stage.
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Hugging Face adds ColBERT training in Sentence Transformers v6.0
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a MultiVectorEncoder class for ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval. A 14.5-hour finetune on one RTX 3090 beat every zero-shot retriever Hugging Face tested on medical search.
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Nvidia projects 70% revenue growth and $673B in sales for fiscal 2028
Nvidia told investors it expects 70% revenue growth in fiscal 2028, against a 44% analyst consensus. That implies about $673 billion in sales, and supply is the stated cap.
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Apple debuts M5 Ultra with an 80-core GPU and 512GB of memory
Apple M5 Ultra fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips into its first quad-die design, with up to 80 GPU cores, 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s of bandwidth. Every performance figure so far is Apple s own.
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Z.ai says Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B open-weights model
Z.ai says the anonymous Ox Alpha model was GLM-5.3-Flash, now on Hugging Face under an MIT licence, and that it served the whole stealth week on Chinese AI chips.
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Apple launches the M6 Mac mini at $899 and a 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio
Apple refreshed the Mac mini and Mac Studio on August 25 around the M6 and M5 Ultra, with prices from $899 to $5,499 and a 512GB memory ceiling aimed at local AI inference.
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Meta settles state child-safety case for up to $18B over 10 years
Meta agreed to pay about $18 billion over 10 years to settle state attorneys general claims over child safety, and 30% of that money depends on whether YouTube and TikTok adopt the same teen limits.
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AWS turns on cross-Region routing for GPT-5.6 across 25+ Regions
AWS switched on cross-Region inference for GPT-5.6 on Amazon Bedrock in more than 25 Regions. Global routing widens the capacity pool, but output tokens still burn quota at 10x.
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