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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just named its first custom AI chip Jalapeño, and the name fits. Built from scratch with Broadcom in nine months, the chip is designed from the ground up for the exact LLM workloads powering ChatGPT, Codex, and every agentic product the lab is building.
OpenAI has paid Nvidia to run inference on off-the-shelf silicon for years. Jalapeño is the declaration that it wants to own that layer too. What happens to AI infrastructure costs when the biggest lab in the world starts competing at the chip level?
In today's recap:
OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño chip debuts
AI labs bet $500M on eliminating respiratory viruses
Set up Microsoft AI tools for your classroom or team
ChatGPT ranks most politically biased in Post study
4 new AI tools, prompts, and more
OPENAI & BROADCOM
OpenAI's first chip has some heat
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Recaply: OpenAI just unveiled Jalapeño with Broadcom, its first custom AI inference chip built from scratch, designed to run the LLM workloads behind ChatGPT, Codex, and future AI products.
Key details:
Jalapeño runs LLM inference for ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agentic products. It cuts data movement and balances compute, memory, and networking to get close to the hardware's peak performance.
OpenAI and Broadcom went from design to chip tape-out in 9 months. The company says this is the fastest ASIC development cycle in high-performance semiconductors. OpenAI's own AI models helped speed up parts of the design.
Early tests show performance per watt well above today's best chips, though a full benchmark report is still months away. Engineering samples are already running GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark at target frequency and power.
Jalapeño ships to data centers by end of 2026, starting with Microsoft at gigawatt scale. Celestica handles board and rack integration alongside Broadcom's networking silicon.
Why it matters: OpenAI has paid Nvidia to run inference on off-the-shelf silicon for years. Jalapeño is the lab's bet that owning the chip layer changes the cost math for everything above it. Broadcom brings real production expertise, not just a roadmap slide. If the performance numbers hold, OpenAI can cut inference costs faster than any rival still buying GPUs at market price. That makes the intelligence business cheaper to run at every level.
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ENTERPRISE AI
$500M fund to eliminate all respiratory viruses
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Recaply: OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Bill Gates just announced a new $500M nonprofit called Intercept, committing to apply AI-driven biology to prevent and ultimately eliminate all respiratory viruses, starting with the common cold and flu.
Key details:
Intercept will fund vaccines, antibodies, engineered virus-grabbing proteins that people could spray in their nasal passages, and large-scale ultraviolet air-cleaning systems for schools and offices, treating respiratory viruses the way municipalities treat contaminated water.
Funders include Stripe's Collison brothers, the OpenAI Foundation, Anthropic, Flu Lab, and Bill Gates, along with traders from quantitative fund Jane Street Capital. People spend an average of 5% of their lifetime fighting a cold or the flu, according to Intercept co-lead Nan Ransohoff.
Stripe previously organized Frontier, a $1.8B carbon removal program using the same philanthropic model: technically possible goals that lack commercial incentives. Intercept's science advisor is David Veesler, whose University of Washington lab contributed to rapid COVID-19 vaccine development.
Intercept is operating now, with advisors including former FDA official Peter Marks and Moncef Slaoui, who led the US Operation Warp Speed vaccine effort.
Why it matters: More than 200 viruses cause respiratory infections. Drug companies don't fund broad solutions because no single vaccine targets all of them. Intercept is betting that RNA drugs, computational protein design, and AI biology tools can solve that diversity problem at the system level. When three of the most well-funded AI labs pool capital to eliminate a category of disease, the framing matters. The goal isn't better treatment. It's zero colds.
GUIDES
Set up Microsoft AI classroom tools
Recaply: In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy Microsoft's new AI teaching tools in a Microsoft 365 Education environment, giving educators clear guardrails for responsible AI use and students a structured way to work alongside AI.
Step-by-step:
Sign in to the Microsoft 365 Education admin portal and confirm your institution has an A1, A3, or A5 Education plan. Microsoft Copilot features including Unit Plans and Study Agent are included at no additional cost. Educators can also try Learning Zone on any Windows 11 device for free during the current trial period.
Go to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and open Unit Plans in Teach. Select your subject and grade level, enter an instructional goal, and the tool generates a standards-aligned unit plan with built-in structure. Refine it using the AI-powered editor before publishing to students.
In the Assignments app, open Student AI Guidelines for a new or existing assignment. Set your policy: no AI, AI for research only, or AI allowed with disclosure. Students see your policy at the point of submission, making expectations clear before they start.
Launch Learning Zone from within an assignment to run a live, educator-paced class experience. You control lesson progression in real time, with full visibility into what each student is doing. Students can't move ahead until you advance the lesson.
Enroll in Microsoft Elevate for Educators (free) to access the AI Literacy for Educators credential pathway, co-created with ISTE and ASCD. Completing the credential earns a formal designation and counts as the recurring AI training that 53% of educators say they haven't received yet.
Pro tip: Student AI Guidelines can be set as a default at the class level, so every new assignment inherits your policy automatically. Set it once at the start of term instead of configuring it per assignment.
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AI RESEARCH
ChatGPT ranked the most politically biased chatbot
Recaply: The Washington Post just published a systematic political bias study across major AI chatbots, finding ChatGPT leaning furthest left and Google's models showing the least measured bias, with the full Q&A methodology made publicly available.
Key details:
The Post tested major AI chatbots using standardized political questions, scoring responses for left or right lean. ChatGPT showed the strongest measured political bias and Google's models scored closest to center. Claude and others fell between the two.
The study published the complete list of questions and responses used in the evaluation, letting researchers verify the methodology and reproduce the scoring. Mainstream media bias audits of AI models haven't done this before.
The findings drew pushback within hours, with AI researchers and communities flagging methodological questions about how "bias" is defined and whether the question set itself reflects a political frame.
The Post's interactive piece is live and the full Q&A dataset is publicly accessible, unlike most Washington Post content which sits behind a paywall.
Why it matters: Treating AI models as entities with measurable political alignment that should be publicly audited is new territory for mainstream journalism. This piece won't settle the debate. It's already generating counter-analyses. But it sets a template: systematic testing, published methodology, named rankings. Regulators and politicians are watching these tools differently now. Expect more audits in this format from other outlets.
TOOLS
Trending AI Tools
🗺️ Street View - Google's Flow Agent now generates images and videos grounded in real-world Maps locations
💻 Gemini Computer Use (Flash) - Google's computer-use capability now on the faster, cheaper Gemini 3.5 Flash model
⚡ Notion External Agents - Claude and Cursor as assignable teammates inside Notion, for Business and Enterprise plans
🎨 Genspark Design - AI design tool powered by Claude Opus 4.7, from UI prototypes to production-ready code
NEWS
What Matters in AI Right Now?
Google introduced Computer Use support for Gemini 3.5 Flash, enabling the model to reason and act across browser, mobile, and desktop environments, with the company reporting significant improvements on work-related automation tasks like filing tickets.
Google Flow Agent added Google Maps Street View grounding, letting users generate AI images and videos anchored to real-world locations. The feature is currently limited to US Street View locations and works by including a specific location in your prompt.
Mirendil AI announced a $200M seed round at a $1B valuation, led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins with additional investment from NVIDIA. Its 20-person founding team comes from Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, focused on building self-accelerating AI R&D systems.
Figma launched Figma Motion at Config 2026, a new animation tool for designers now available in beta. The announcement was made live at the conference with immediate availability for beta users.
Notion introduced External Agents, bringing Claude and Cursor directly into Notion workspaces where teams can assign tasks, @-mention agents like teammates, and run parallel jobs across shared boards. Available in beta for Business and Enterprise plans, with more agents to follow.
Microsoft unveiled new AI teaching tools including Unit Plans in Teach, Student AI Guidelines in Assignments, and Learning Zone, available at no additional cost to Microsoft 365 Education users. The company's 2026 AI in Education Report found 92% of students and education leaders have already used AI for school-related purposes.
Genspark introduced Genspark Design, an AI design tool powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that handles UI prototypes, videos, HTML animations, and posters in one workspace, with one-click code export built in. A launch credit promo is running for two weeks for individual users.
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