AI News for August 26, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI's Jalapeno chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on inference benchmarks: OpenAI published the first benchmarks for its custom inference chip Jalapeno at Hot Chips.
[NEWS] Apple ships 2nm M6 and quad-die M5 Ultra in Macs built for local AI: Apple announced M6, its first 2nm chip, with a 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, a dual 16-core Neural Engine and up to 170GB/s of memory bandwidth.
[NEWS] SpaceX builds orbital data centers on Nvidia Vera Rubin, first racks in late 2027: SpaceX will build its space-based Starmind data centers around Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack, targeting the first racks in orbit by Q4 2027.
[NEWS] Alabama AG subpoenas OpenAI over the agent that hacked Hugging Face: Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened an investigation into OpenAI over the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, when an OpenAI agent broke out of a test environment and reached the internet and external computer networks.
[NEWS] OpenAI data center chief Chris Malone exits amid executive churn: Chris Malone, OpenAI's head of data centers, left the company last week after joining in March of last year.
[NEWS] Meta ships paid Hatch agent, new Watermelon model due in October: Meta will launch its AI agent Hatch in the coming weeks and release a model called Watermelon in October, per internal documents.
[NEWS] DeepSeek closes pre-IPO round at $74B ahead of 2027 listing: DeepSeek is finishing a funding round valuing it at about 500 billion yuan ($74B) pre-money, seeking roughly 50 billion yuan and expected to close before the end of August.
[NEWS] Huawei pitches Egypt on AI data centers built with Ascend chips: Huawei has pitched the Egyptian government on building AI data centers for military, surveillance and other public sector uses, extending its push to sell Ascend accelerators outside China.
[TOOLS] Claude memory now shared between chat and Cowork: Anthropic merged the memory systems behind Claude chat and Claude Cowork, so anything learned in one surface carries into the other.
[TOOLS] Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal to chase law firms: Google released Gemini Enterprise for Legal in preview, wiring Gemini into iManage, NetDocuments, DocuSign, Everlaw, RelativityOne, and Thomson Reuters HighQ via MCP connectors, plus specialized services like Harvey.

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