OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia GB300 on efficiency → First published results show the custom inference chip delivering 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per watt than Nvidia’s GB300 while cutting end-to-end latency by as much as 3.6 times. The 700-watt part goes up against a 1,400-watt flagship and still returns answers faster on open models like DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5. Deployment inside OpenAI’s own infrastructure is planned by year-end. Read more here →

fal’s H3 Max claims the top spot in video generation → The post-trained model ranked first for quality prompt understanding and aesthetics against a dozen leading systems. It can produce a 5-second 720p clip in under three seconds and is 50 percent off this week. fal built it on MiniMax’s open H3 base then tuned it for speed without giving up looks. Read more here →

Nvidia closes in on a Hugging Face acquisition → Talks point to a deal around $13 billion that would give the chipmaker a major foothold in open-source AI. Hugging Face last raised at $4.5 billion in 2023 and now does roughly $150 million in annual revenue. The move would help Nvidia stay central as closed labs build their own chips. Read more here →

OpenAI leaders say AGI is getting close → Sam Altman told TIME the company could have an internal system that qualifies as AGI by the end of 2026. Mark Chen put the lab at about 80 percent of the way there. Astra already acts as an automated research intern that can run week-long experiments inside OpenAI’s own codebase. Read more here →

A practical field guide to living with Grok Bot → Two weeks after launch Matt Van Horn published every hack he has found from giving a bot its own inbox to letting it place phone calls in Portuguese. The write-up covers planning layers named roles cookie sync and the habit of drafting before anything gets sent. The honest caveat is that unsupervised crews can multiply their own errors fast. Read more here →

TIME drops its 2026 list of AI’s most influential people → The annual TIME100 AI ranking is out again with the usual mix of lab chiefs and public figures. Online reaction quickly turned to the oddities including Paris Hilton while Jensen Huang is missing from the list. Readers treated that combination as the punchline. Read more here →

Claude memory now follows you from chat into Cowork → One shared memory means a task in Cowork can start from what you already discussed in chat including projects preferences and past clients. You can read edit or delete every saved topic in Settings. Sensitive subjects stay out unless you turn them on. Read more here →

Hugging Face unveils a $399 open-source robot → Microduck can walk pick things up get back up after falling and even roller-skate. Users teach it new tricks with reinforcement learning instead of waiting for a closed lab to ship a firmware update. Clem Delangue frames it as affordable hardware for physical AI and world models. Read more here →

Skild AI’s S1 learns 10-minute robot tasks from one video → Show the foundation model a single demonstration and it can complete jobs it never saw in training from making coffee to flipping pancakes. No fine-tuning is required and it can recover from mistakes the human in the video never made. The company says matching that accuracy with older VLAs would take 50 to 100 hours of extra data. Read more here →

Google ships Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for cleaner live speech → The new model turns messy audio into formatted text while cutting filler words and handling self-corrections like “Tuesday no Wednesday.” It recognizes more than 85 languages and drops word error rates well below earlier Chirp systems. Developers can use it now through the Gemini API and it is already landing in the macOS Gemini app. Read more here →