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Nvidia has long been the undisputed king of AI chips, but that crown is looking a little less secure. OpenAI has unveiled plans for a custom inference chip called Jalapeño, built in partnership with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a quiet but accelerating push to reduce dependence on any single supplier. The economics are simple — at the scale these companies operate, owning your silicon is a competitive advantage you can't afford to ignore.
Shifting gears, OpenAI is also making news on the software side. The company has released GPT-five point six to a select group of users who have been vetted by the US government. Details remain thin, but the move signals a deepening relationship between frontier AI labs and federal institutions — a dynamic that raises real questions about access, oversight, and who gets to shape how these tools are used first.
And on a different kind of market entirely, prediction platform Kalshi is leaning hard into its moment. The company has secured a partnership with the FIFA World Cup as trading volumes on its platform hit record levels. Whether prediction markets are a genuine forecasting tool or a sophisticated form of gambling is a debate that isn't going away anytime soon.
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