📰 News
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OpenAI’s first custom chip, Jalapeño, beats Blackwell and Rubin — Hot Chips. Designed with Broadcom in nine months. Inference only. On InferenceX it does 1.5–1.9× more work per watt and 1.7–3.6× lower latency. SemiAnalysis: “First-gen chips usually aren’t competitive, but OpenAI is beating Nvidia.” Small volumes late 2026, real scale in 2027. CUDA’s moat looks thinner. → The Decoder
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Claude Cowork now remembers what you said in chat — Anthropic merged chat and Cowork memory. Headcount and city don’t need a second briefing. Sensitive topics stay out by default. On for Free, Pro, and Max. → TechCrunch
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Russia ran a fake think tank through ChatGPT — OpenAI banned a VPN cluster. The “International Burke Institute” ranked Russia up and the West down. Posts barely traveled; Telegram channels hit 10–20k each. → The Decoder
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Meta’s paid agent Hatch ships in weeks — A consumer OpenClaw. Premium up to $199.99/month. Watermelon model in October. Hooks into DoorDash, Etsy, Reddit, Outlook. WhatsApp as an agent platform too. → The Decoder
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Google previews Gemini for legal work — MCP into iManage, DocuSign, Harvey. Contracts, research, regulation. Finance launched the same day; healthcare is next. Same models, packaged as skills plus connectors. → The Decoder
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Nvidia’s Groq 3 LPX is “4× Cerebras” — with an asterisk — 3,400 tok/s on Gemma 4 31B. Built for fast agent decode. Nvidia needs ≥64 chips; Cerebras does it on one or two. Each LPU has 500MB of SRAM, so models get sliced across a rack. → The Decoder
🔥 GitHub Trending
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openai/codex — OpenAI’s coding agent for the terminal. CLI, IDE, or app.
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NousResearch/hermes-agent — A self-improving agent that writes skills from experience. $5 VPS, Telegram.
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anthropics/claude-plugins-community — Community plugin marketplace mirror for Cowork and Code.
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MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search — Claude Code workflow for postings, CVs, cover letters. The author got hired with it.
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multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills — Karpathy’s LLM coding pitfalls turned into four CLAUDE.md principles.
▶️ YouTube
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Your Mac can get a job — Matthew Berman. A short on a Mac picking up work locally. Fits the local-agent mood. → YouTube
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Grok Bot saves so much time and is so easy — Matthew Berman. A quick demo of wiring Grok into busywork. → YouTube
💬 Community
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A manifesto for responsible agentic coding — Production code still needs a human who can explain it. Between vibe-coding and a boycott.
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Fable is too expensive to win — Anthropic’s annualized revenue is $65B, but Ramp has Fable 5 at 8%. Opus 4.8 is 28%.
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Mac Studio and Mini, built for local AI — M5 Ultra with 512GB. Chain minis to run bigger models.
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Drew Breunig: the free lunch is over — Before Fable, polishing the harness felt pointless. Now you split work between the expensive model and the cheap ones.