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Tech, Chips & the AI Frontier — Wednesday, August 26, 2026

OpenAI's in-house 'Jalapeño' chip reportedly outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell on speed and efficiency, signaling a major shift toward vertical compute integration at the world's top AI lab. • Meta is set to launch 'Hatch,' an agentic AI platform, within weeks — putting it in direct competition with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the fast-growing autonomous-agent market. • Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha as a new GLM-series frontier model rivaling DeepSeek, with open-source weights promised — intensifying the global open-source AI race. • Nvidia earnings land Wednesday, with options pricing up to a 6%…

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