🤖 OpenAI unveils first custom AI chip

OpenAI introduced its first in-house chip called Jalapeño, designed solely for inference tasks. It is currently in testing and reportedly outperforms competing chips in efficiency.

The chip was developed with Broadcom, known for making AI chips for Meta and Google TPU, and Anthropic also collaborates with them. Integration into full servers is pending since the largest deployed model is GPT 5.3 Spark.

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🤖 Anthropic launches Claude Tag for team workflows

Anthropic introduced Claude Tag, a team mode where one Claude bot lives in a channel and handles tasks from any member, breaking work into steps and replying in threads.

Claude Tag remembers channel context, runs projects over hours or days, and highlights key points. Admins control access, set roles, and track all actions with spending limits.

Anthropic’s product team now writes 65% of their code using an internal Claude Tag. The feature is in beta for Claude Enterprise and Team, running on Opus 4.8.

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🤖 OpenAI Codex Now Dominates Output Tokens

Inside OpenAI, Codex accounts for 99.8% of output tokens, while ChatGPT makes up just 0.2%. Business users generate about 64% of their token consumption through Codex.

The top 1% of Codex users run agents for an average of 71 hours daily across all agents. Tasks requiring around 8 hours of human work now represent over 25% of prompts, up from just over 2% in December.

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🍏 Apple raises prices across most devices

Apple increased prices on nearly all hardware.

🔸 MacBook Neo rose $100 to $700
🔸 MacBook Air $200 to $1300
🔸 MacBook Pro $300 to $2000
🔸 iPad Pro went up $200 to $1200
🔸 HomePod mini $30 to $130

The lineup includes laptops, tablets, smart speakers, and the Vision Pro headset, which rose $200 to $3700.

iPhones kept current prices, but the iPhone 18 series may cost more this fall.

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🔍 Android 17 adds virtual gamepad for foldables

Android 17 introduces a gaming mode for foldable phones that turns half the unfolded screen into a virtual gamepad with touch buttons. It arrives in the coming months.

The virtual controller works at the system level, supporting any game with physical gamepad compatibility. It offers a full set of controls: D-pad, sticks, A, B, X, Y buttons, bumpers, triggers L1-L3 and R1-R3, plus start.

Users can customize the layout by moving sticks, resizing buttons, and adjusting vibration. The mode activates when unfolding the phone and hides or disables automatically if a real controller connects.

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