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OpenAI’s first AI chip brings the heat
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,221 new readers. OpenAI named its first in-house AI chip Jalapeño, and the first benchmarks just came out appropriately spicy. The company’s internal tests have the chip beating Nvidia’s flagship GPUs on both speed and power…
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Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital, and other investors. Gatik said it has more than $600 million in…
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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is positioning the new board as an entry-level option for developers who want generative AI models running directly on a machine instead of inside a data centre. NVIDIA’s argument for…
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Kaszek Makes First Aviation AI Investment, Backing TravelX’s Trillion-Dollar Dynamic Inventory Vision
Insider Brief TravelX, an AI-native pioneer in post-booking revenue management, secured a substantial investment from Kaszek, marking the Latin American VC firm’s first foray into aviation technology and bringing TravelX’s total funding to $45 million. The investment, part of a Series A round that also included Thayer Ventures, will accelerate product innovation, expand TravelX’s AI…
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Relativity Networks Secures $22M in Funding To Speed Up AI Data Center Fiber Connectivity
Relativity Networks announced $22 million in SAFE note funding from Rhapsody Venture Partners, Bell Ventures, and Faster Than Glass, alongside a separate $40 million follow-on order from an unnamed hyperscaler, as the company works to address geographic constraints facing the data center industry, which is projected to spend up to $4 trillion by decade’s end.…
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AI Infrastructure Race Accelerates As OpenAI Unveils Jalapeño Chip Results And Redefines Agentic Product Design
OpenAI presented its first benchmark results for Jalapeño, its new inference processor developed in close collaboration with Broadcom, at the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday. Tested against SemiAnalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño outperformed current state-of-the-art systems, including an Nvidia Blackwell configuration, on both tokens served per user and throughput per kilowatt. Richard Ho, OpenAI’s head of…
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AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Faces SEC Probe Following Major Losses
Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, is reportedly under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission following a sharp decline in its value. The fund, which had built its portfolio heavily around AI investments and experienced significant early growth, saw billions of dollars erased at the end of…
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Researchers Say Robot-Assisted Surgery Shows Clinical Advantages Over Laparoscopic Surgery for Gastric Cancer
Insider Brief A nationwide Japanese study found robotic gastrectomy was associated with less blood loss, fewer conversions to open surgery and shorter hospital stays than laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer patients. Researchers compared 9,743 matched pairs undergoing robotic and laparoscopic distal gastrectomy and 1,617 matched pairs undergoing total gastrectomy using Japan’s National Clinical Database. Robotic…
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ChipAgents Expands Series A Funding to $134M as Demand Grows for Agentic AI in Semiconductor Design
Insider Brief ChipAgents raised an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, bringing its expanded round to $134 million just six months after its initial Series A close, with new investor B Capital joining Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, and ScOp. The company saw 6x growth in ARR during the first half of 2026…
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Harvard Business School Adds AI Instructor Avatars To $699 Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Harvard Business School incorporated AI avatars of its instructors into its eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs, using technology built by startup HeyGen to provide individualized feedback during practice pitches and board meetings, supplementing weekly live instructor sessions. New York Times reporter Sarah Kessler tested the system by pitching an AI-generated version of Flybridge…
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