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OpenAI appears to be accelerating its AI agent phone with dual NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, aiming for mass production as early as the first half of 2027 (@mingchikuo)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo: 20 million trips and the path to full autonomy Sequoia Capital partners…

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xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on the launch of Custom Notion AI agents in the coming week, with over 50% of Notion databases now created by agents, and more (Sources)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 21, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Closes to $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquisition, AI Productivity Question – with Aaron Levie The…

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Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Toronto startup Taalas, which embeds AI models in custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has…

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How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Venture is in its peak growth era A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

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Source: To detect leaks, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, emails and documents by cross-referencing news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 11, 2026

Stephanie Palazzolo / The information: Source: To detect leaks, OpenAI security staff uses a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack,…

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Denver-based Northslope, which creates custom AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22 million Series A round led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 1, 2026

Nathalie Breymeyer / Axios: Denver-based Northslope, which creates custom AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22 million Series A…

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A deep dive into Apple’s AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a custom Gemini-powered Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Why Your Product Stopped Growing (And the 5-Step Framework to Restart It) | Jason Cohen Interviews…

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Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken and open source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 29, 2025

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open source…

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Satya Nadella says Microsoft has access to “all” of OpenAI’s custom AI chip work and plans to use it to help develop its own in-house chip (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 13, 2025

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: It turns out there is one more line (don’t make fun of the Pope) A podcast…

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How the TeamPCP hacker group exploited the trust model and open source distribution method to compromise and inject malware into more than 1,000 pieces of software (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia’s playbook to build an AI chip company, including providing $3.2 billion to fund a New York data center leasing TPUs from Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

Elastic has agreed to acquire AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million; CRV led Deductive AI’s $7.5M funding round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Intel Appoints Former SK Hynix CEO Seok-Hee Lee as Executive Vice President of Intel Foundry; Naga Chandrasekaran to lead technology development and front-end manufacturing (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Sources: Meta is under contract to purchase approximately 1.6 GW of compute capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (Bloomberg)

Browsing: custom

OpenAI appears to be accelerating its AI agent phone with dual NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, aiming for mass production as early as the first half of 2027 (@mingchikuo)

xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on the launch of Custom Notion AI agents in the coming week, with over 50% of Notion databases now created by agents, and more (Sources)

Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

Source: To detect leaks, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, emails and documents by cross-referencing news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Denver-based Northslope, which creates custom AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22 million Series A round led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

A deep dive into Apple’s AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a custom Gemini-powered Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken and open source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

Satya Nadella says Microsoft has access to “all” of OpenAI’s custom AI chip work and plans to use it to help develop its own in-house chip (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)