Sam Altman

OpenAI's first in-house silicon: why a blank-slate inference chip matters, what separates Jalapeño from adapted GPU designs, the record nine-month tape-out story, and what the full-stack flywheel means for anyone building on OpenAI APIs.

Gokul Rajaram's take after weeks of daily use — "Use Claude Code for brainstorming and planning. Use Codex for reviews and execution." Alex Finn launched a live newsletter landing page in 5 minutes via Codex: it wrote the code, pushed to GitHub, connected Vercel, and chose the domain. Codex has 4M weekly users. Most serious developers now subscribe to both at ~$20/month each. Here is the full breakdown.

The White House's June 2, 2026 EO mandated a classified AI benchmarking process and a 30-day pre-release framework for "covered frontier models" within 60 days. Fable 5 launched June 9 — 7 days after the EO — with no government pre-brief. The June 12 ban was the mechanism for forcing cooperation the voluntary framework could not compel. Here is the full Section-by-Section breakdown and why it matters.

Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock confirmed robots now outnumber humans at the company. Here's what the headcount chart, 1/hour production rate, and BMW deployment numbers actually mean.

Twelve AI CEOs sat down with G7 leaders in Évian for 110 minutes. The headline outcome: a proposed Trusted Partners scheme that could give allied nations access to US frontier AI models. Here is the full picture of what happened, what was decided, and what was deliberately left unresolved.