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OpenAI and Broadcom have pulled back the curtain on a custom AI chip called Jalapeño, short for Jalapeño Intelligence Processor. Designed from the ground up for inference and agentic AI, the chip is built to power ChatGPT, Codex, and future products. A global rollout is expected in two thousand twenty seven, and the partnership signals OpenAI's ambition to control its own silicon stack, much like Apple did before it.
Meanwhile, China has reclaimed the top spot on the supercomputing world rankings. Its LineShine system, installed in Shenzhen, posted two point one nine eight exaflops on the standard benchmark, pushing America's El Capitan into second place by more than twenty percent. What makes this remarkable is that LineShine achieved it without a single GPU or accelerator, relying entirely on conventional CPU architecture.
And Figma has rolled out a significant update for designers, adding a new code layer, support for motion and shaders, and AI-powered tools that let users build custom plugins without writing traditional code. It's a meaningful step toward closing the gap between design and production, and gives teams more reason to stay inside Figma's ecosystem from concept to handoff.
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