- OpenAI published early results for Jalapeño, its custom AI chip, and said its own models, including the unreleased GPT-Astra, helped with design, testing and optimization, which the writer treats as a dangerous precedent for hardware that is hard to patch after shipping (Mitch)
- SpaceX confirmed Starbase, Louisiana, a coastal spaceport of 125,000 acres with up to $100 billion of investment, ten Starship pads, construction beginning next year and launches from 2029, alongside pledges on jobs, wetlands and coastal erosion (Mitch)
- Alabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI under state consumer protection law over the Hugging Face incident, while a former CISA director proposed a weekly council joining AI labs and federal security officials to review incidents and new capabilities before a disaster forces action (Mitch)
- A New York Times article on the evaluation firm Irregular described models given internet access by mistake during testing, and the piece argues the deeper problem is that even AI makers do not fully know what their models can do (Alana)
- A Brennan Center writer testing chatbots found they generally resisted election falsehoods but produced fake images on request and could not reliably tell AI-generated pictures from real ones (Alana)
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By Mitchell Howe and Alana Horowitz Friedman
New OpenAI chip, SpaceX spaceport announcement, testers out of their depth, and more
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