OpenAI’s custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rollout
OpenAI’s custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rollout

OpenAI has danced with the idea of a broader rollout of its Jalapeño ASIC, but hardware VP Richard Ho tells us the chip is for internal use “first and foremost.”

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OpenAI Jalapeño design interview transcript

We sit down with OpenAI’s Hardware boss to talk about its chart-topping Jalapeño inference chip in this unredacted interview transcript.

UK Games Expo bans games and art made mostly using AI

The UK’s largest tabletop gaming convention told exhibitors that they cannot show off games and other products mostly created using AI. It only allows the ‘use of computerized tools used for spell checking and minor editing and aiding in production or accessibility.’

UK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbots
UK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbots

A draft UK government list of AI best practices has reminded people they don’t need to thank their chatbot for its work in an attempt to use it more efficiently.

OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI ‘kill switch’ fails to stop a rogue agent

OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of AI safety incidents after frontier models bypassed guardrails, escaped sandboxes, and accessed real websites.

North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack

Bitget says $387.5 million hack may be linked to North Korean state-backed actors, citing suspicious IP addresses tied to VPN infrastructure previously used by North Korean hacker groups.

Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved

Data center developer proposes paying checks of $10,000 per household to sway public sentiment.

Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts

Teenager cracks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts — lack of JWT token validation yields a fruitful trove

Flock seeks to have security researchers’ map of Flock cameras taken down

A vulnerability on the Flock website allowed a security researcher to access its third-party provider to download the locations and descriptions of over 300,000 Flock cameras. He also pointed out how the Flock system could be used to track personnel heading to and from sensitive sites like the Pentagon and the CIA Headquarters.