OpenAI Built Its Own Chip in 9 Months, Fable 5 Is Coming Back, AI Is Trying to Kill the Common Cold
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 25th, 2026. OpenAI revealed Jalapeño — its first custom inference chip built in partnership with Broadcom in just nine months, with OpenAI's own AI models helping in the design process and early testing showing performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art — a major step toward owning the full stack from silicon to product without leaning on Nvidia. Fable 5's return is starting to take shape — Claude Code update logs reference Fable usage, the White House is reportedly "happier" in talks now that co-founder Tom…
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