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OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip is 700 watts
OpenAI’s first inference ASIC, co-developed with Broadcom, put 700-watt Hot Chips numbers against Nvidia’s 1,400-watt flagship.Apple puts M5 Max on the MacBook Pro
Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro has an 18-core CPU, a 40-core GPU and up to 128 GB of memory. The 35.6 cm Max starts at US$3,599.Musk put a ship catch months out, and a reflight by early 2027
Elon Musk said on 20 August that a Starship upper stage should first fly again by the end of 2026 or early 2027. SpaceX first caught a booster in 2024.Giga Texas has Cybercab in Production
Tesla's Q2 2026 update lists Cybercab as in production at Gigafactory Texas, at more than 125,000 a year. The first car came off the line in February.Starlink hit 12 million subscribers at the end of Q2
Starlink ended June with 12.0 million subscribers, SpaceX's Q2 2026 results show. It added 1.7 million in the quarter, and SpaceX took in $7.8 billion.Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box
Nvidia's DGX Spark has a GB10 Grace Blackwell chip, 1 petaflop of FP4 and 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It launched at US$3,999 and is now US$4,699.Dune: Part Three, shot on IMAX 70 mm, gets a 3-week IMAX window
Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three was shot in IMAX 70 mm and has a three-week US IMAX exclusive window over Avengers: Doomsday.
