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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

At the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, OpenAI shared a more detailed look at Jalapeño, including the first batch of benchmark results for the new system. Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the-art inference processors.

“The bottom line is that the results show a very, very significant performance advance over state of the art,” said Richard Ho, OpenAI’s head of hardware, in a press call. “Jalapeño can serve more AI work per unit of power, while also returning responses more quickly. It’s very efficient to serve a lot of customers, but it can also be very low latency.”

Notably, that comparison is against an Nvidia Blackwell system — but by the time Jalapeño reaches full deployment, the competition may have advanced significantly. Ho estimated that Jalapeño would deploy at the end of 2026 “in very...

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I Put Coway’s Airmega Halo Through a Smoke Test. The Results Were Complicated

Inside, the Halo has a cylindrical IEST-certified HEPA three-stage filter that claims to capture 99.97 percent of nano-sized particles down to 0.3 microns, but in my opinion the coolest feature is the MegaScan Particle Sensor, which continuously monitors the air in real time to detect smoke, fine dust,

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The iPhone Duo’s hardware doesn’t look special, but its software might be

With the iPhone Duo, Apple has pulled off a familiar trick. It arrives into a mature Android foldable market with a handful of hardware features we’ve mostly already seen elsewhere, but paired with a level of software polish that makes a lot of them feel new again. It’s

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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about

Apple stock price target cut to $370 from $380 by BofA: What investors should know

BofA Securities has lowered its Apple stock price target to $370 from $380. The investment firm kept its Buy rating on Apple shares, meaning it still expects the stock to perform well despite the lower target. The main reason for the lower target is Apple’s iPhone pricing. BofA said

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Apple stock price target cut to $370 from $380 by BofA: What investors should know