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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-06-25.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • OpenAI and Broadcom drop "Jalapeño," a custom inference chip built specifically for LLMs.
▸ • IBM breaks the sub-1 nanometer barrier, proving we can still shoot lightning into sand at microscopic levels.
▸ • Cerebras takes a 20% stock hit post-IPO because Wall Street didn't like their margin forecast.
OpenAI just unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, affectionately named Jalapeño. Designed in collaboration with Broadcom (and ironically, with the help of OpenAI's own models), the chip promises significantly better performance-per-watt than current state-of-the-art alternatives.
AI chipmaker Cerebras saw its stock plunge 20% after its first public earnings report. Despite revenue nearly doubling to $193.4 million, investors panicked over a forecasted drop in gross margins from 47% to around 40%. Welcome to Wall Street, where doubling your money isn't enough if the vibes are off.
Remember when phone-cracking firm Cellebrite proudly announced it would stop selling to Putin's government? Yeah, about that. Security researchers just found evidence that Russian authorities used Cellebrite's tools to hack a political opponent's iPhone anyway.
Because nothing stays dead in tech, Meta is bringing back the Facebook Creator Studio page manager it shuttered in 2023. This time, it's been "reimagined" as a standalone AI companion app to help creators connect with audiences.
A new economic research paper from OpenAI and Harvard Business School takes an empirical look at how AI agents are actually transforming work. The TLDR? We're moving from single chatbot interactions to delegated, long-horizon tasks. AI-native firms are successfully scaling knowledge work without proportionally scaling knowledge workers, which is great for valuations and terrifying for middle management.
The geopolitical tug-of-war over semiconductors is getting messy. Europe is starting to push back against US efforts to restrict ASML from selling older-generation deep ultraviolet tools to China. It's a classic case of Washington writing the rules and expecting everyone else's economy to take the hit.
IBM just announced the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology using new "nanostack" transistors. It's a massive breakthrough in semiconductor physics that proves Moore's Law isn't dead, it just requires increasingly complex alchemy to keep shrinking the silicon.
A Chinese brand called Phosgo is launching the "world's first AI solar e-bike" for $1,999. It features a 200W solar panel built into the wheel covers and an AI voice assistant, blurring the line between "innovative transportation" and "sophisticated e-waste."
Disney has agreed to pay $50 million to settle claims that it forced YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream to artificially inflate their subscription prices. If you were a subscriber, you might get a check just in time to pay for your next streaming price hike.