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Techmeme surfaced SemiAnalysis’s August 25 deep dive “OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell”. The headline result is striking: OpenAI’s first custom inference chip reportedly serves large language models with both higher throughput per watt and lower latency than the Nvidia systems tested. The more consequential story, however, is how a frontier AI lab combined custom silicon, rack-scale networking, serving software, and AI-written low-level code quickly enough to make a first-generation chip competitive.

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Gibraltar’s newly open border with Spain shows how economic necessity can soften even a centuries-old sovereignty dispute. On July 14th, border controls ended under a treaty between Britain and the European Union, bringing the British territory into much of Europe’s system for frictionless movement and trade. The agreement does not settle who should own the Rock. Instead, it makes that argument less costly for the people who live and work around it.

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Sean Grayson, ex-deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison six months into his sentence at age 32, attorney says (r/news)

• Odd-Switch2069: Anyways, how’s everyone’s day going?
• GTRari: I remember this case. That guy fucking sucked.
• Stanley___Nickels: Wish it happened 19 years into the sentence instead, but I guess this will do

Buc-ee’s chain draws outcry in Ohio for launching fight over a mini mart’s beaver logo (r/news)

• CharlieKonR: This business (which existed *before* Buc-ee’s expanded into Ohio) is in a town named *Beaver* Creek, for Pete’s sake.
• dover_oxide: And recently buc-ee’s is trying to politicize themselves by saying they won’t open in blue States because they’re not business friendly. Buc-ee’s isn’t business friendly at this point
• Bakedfresh420: John Oliver has been raging against these guys for a few weeks

What are some clear signs of low intelligence in a person? (r/AskReddit)

• _Pixelmancer: Unable to understand hypotheticals
• BlahGame: Inability to think independently.
• inevitably_water: incapable of putting themselves in someone else’s shoes, or abstract thinking

You have to compete against 100 randomly selected people in any objectively measurable skill, game, or sport. If you don’t finish first, you die. What do you choose? (r/AskReddit)

• WrappedInLinen: I choose a solid oak coffin with mahogany trim and brass hinges.
• LeBronJamesIII: 100 people randomly selected in the world.. which includes children and elderly, even in other countries. Yup they don’t stand a chance against me in super smash bros melee
• OwntheWorld24: We playing excel bitches.

People who say they’re only going to have one drink, and then only have one drink: How do you do that? (r/AskReddit)

• AzureMountains: It’s easy for me to have just one drink. It’s hard for me to only have 1 taco. I just like food more than alcohol.
• hairier: I got to a point where I don’t find being drunk entertaining in its own right, and it doesn’t enhance other actually entertaining things. But you have to spend some time sober to realise that. The danger is that you start finding drunk people a bit tiresome.
• CodGroundbreaking933: Only take \$7 on a night out

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A bit put off by how my reports are referring to me. What to do? (Blind)

• alvhgddhj (Meta): I can’t tell if this is satire or not
• lmEN30 (Stripe): lol, are you for real? Which planet did you land from?
• impacc4lyf (Meta): Insist that they address you as “Your Lordship”

2 months at Amazon and I’m already interviewing lol (Blind)

• Riukoa (TikTok): If the interviews don’t work out, you should consider changing your team instead. The grass isn’t as green as it appears outside.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Meta may not be any better. There is a lot of “ownership culture” at these companies. You are give a problem to solve and you have to own it end to end. This involves dealing with permissions , “stakeholder alignment” and other things. It’s just part of the corporate grind. Once an employer becomes large enough , your job is just to be easy to work with, make your manager look good in front of skip manager and to justify your existence
• Isthesoo (Meta): I left Amazon for Meta and met an even worse manager lol.

Waymo is so good holy shit (Blind)

• loudobbs (Apple): What a surprise, a new service that is currently used mostly by young techies is clean and reliable. Wait until the clientele gets more diverse and the assumptions Waymo made about what constitutes behavior in a society are thoroughly tested for edge cases.
• jefbezASMR (Amazon): americans doing everything to avoid public transportation
• Txsp46 (Cisco): Why would I pay the same amount for a robot as for a human? It needs to be dramatically cheaper, otherwise as a non psychopath I will choose to give money to the driver instead of the big company

People have clicked the “Seems like AI slop” button on LinkedIn over a million times already (r/technology)

• ZioniteSoldier: Same company that had a “AI my post” button. They encouraged the slop
• eizch: Tbf LinkedIn is the place where everything seemed like AI slop already.
• djliquidice: Good. Now the question is what will they do with that info.

Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch (r/technology)

• saurus-REXicon: Sounds like taking them all down would be a sufficient compromise.
• williamgman: Maybe the United Healthcare CEO’s story gave him pause?
• ArgentineBeauty: Sounds like the CEO is getting a little worried about what all this backlash might do to the profits.

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Four Messages in Copper

For 35 years, the sculpture Kryptos stood outside CIA headquarters with one of its four encrypted passages still unsolved. Cryptographers cracked the first three sections in the 1990s, but the final 97-character message, known as K4, resisted every public effort. Then in September 2025 two journalists found its plaintext in the Smithsonian archives. They had not broken the cipher at all; they had discovered the answer in the artist’s papers.

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Techmeme surfaced the New York Times investigation “A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.”. Ukrainian officials told the newspaper that a Russian drone used an onboard Nvidia computer to select and strike a target without a pilot’s final approval, killing three civilians at a gas station in Zaporizhzhia on July 6.

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Sweden’s September election will test what happens to anti-immigration populism after immigration itself has fallen sharply. The Sweden Democrats helped push the country from one of Europe’s most welcoming migration regimes to one of its most restrictive. Now the party must persuade voters that the remaining problem is not new arrivals, but migrants who are already settled in Sweden.

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The US national debt now stands at \$40 trillion (r/news)

• hjadams123: Where is the outrage from the Tea Party?
• RPi79: Which is absolutely not a problem until the day a Democrat takes office, then “we need to get this under control!”
• Torino1O: Deficit spending isn’t really a problem as long as we have a lot of allies willing to buy bonds and the interest rate remains low, oh wait….

‘Most prolific’ member of online extremist network 764 sentenced to 77 years in prison (r/news)

• Comfortable_Rip_5746: Good, fuck this clown. Truly evil, despicable behavior.
• bgva: Reading that article, 77 years isn’t nearly enough. Fuck that guy.
• Trashking_702: I must be old man, wtf is 764? I just read about it and I consider myself chronically online and haven’t heard of this. Must be a generation or two under mine. Sounds like an absolutely awful group of “humans beings”.

You’re handed 2 pounds of ground beef and told you can’t make spaghetti, tacos, or burgers. What’s your panic‑mode meal? (r/AskReddit)

• giantawakening: Sloppy Joe. Slop slop sloppy Joe
• Drusgar: Macaroni and cheese. With hamburger, obviously.
• BobbyRockPort: Chili

What is a small, quiet hobby you picked up that completely changed your mental health? (r/AskReddit)

• Hidingjimmy: Knitting. It’s like scratching an itch I didn’t know I had.
• Thunder3264: Going for a 20-minute walk every evening with absolutely no phone or headphones. Just observing neighborhood dogs, the sky, and existing without constant stimulation. It completely reset my brain.
• tnbciceskater: Figure skating at age 50. Now 76 and still skating after hip replacement and breast cancer. It keeps you joyful.

People in their 40s and 50s: If you could claw back the massive amount of time or money you poured into one specific thing in your youth, what would it be? (r/AskReddit)

• Difficult_Thought_45: It’s funny because I would say games due to how many hours I spent on them, but I’ve also reflected back on how lonely I was back then and how happy my online friends made me, I wouldn’t trade that for anything. I don’t think I’d be here if it wasn’t for them. Now I have a very different life. I truly believe if something made us happy at some point it maybe served its purpose at that time. Sometimes we lean into things just to feel some form of purpose in life.
• EmotionalMixture5968: Worrying about shit that hadn’t even happened. Because most of it never did happen.
• Salty-Dragonfly2189: Drinking. I’ve spent so much time and money drinking. (2 years sober BTW)

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Burnt out at Apple Mxd Signal. Considering NVIDIA. Is the grass really greener? (Blind)

• ShaderMods (NVIDIA): You aren’t getting \$500k at NVDA even at IC5. Refreshers here suck compared to Apple. Top performer at Apple ICT4 can get \$180k refresher, while in NVDA IC4 you ain’t seeing these numbers no matter what. IC5 might get you \$200k for top performance, but getting it at your YOE maybe a little difficult not impossible, even then i doubt your WLB at NVDA will be any better. Also coming in at a higher level might put you under scrutiny for performance. PIP does exist FYI..
• amzn666999 (Amazon): ic5 nvda can get 500k annualized.
• none24 (NVIDIA): Do it, it will be worth it

Decide between offers - Coupang, Nvidia, Netflix (Blind)

• nimate (Meta): Are you E5 at meta? I would go with Netflix any day. Don’t fall for money at coupang. Its the worst company I have ever worked at.
• rtxavomni (NVIDIA): This is a tough one between nvidia and Netflix. Few years ago I would’ve unequivocally said Netflix.
• CuEn87 (Robinhood): That coupang TC is to work 80hrs/week

I just failed Anthropic and now I’m crashing out cause all I have left is Google (Blind)

• ImRiic (Google): Is it just me, or has there been a lot of posts from folks at Meta talking about how they cannot pass interviews? I guess the quality of the talent there is finally showing. Too bad Google also just hires anybody nowadays, so this might be the first interview op actually passes.
• GqUU21 (Uber): Ant and OAI are no longer “golden tickets”. A few years ago, yes, but no one knew back then. Based on current evaluation, the chance of Meta to 2x is higher than either of those after lockups expire next year unless you get a research job, which is unlikely given your post, stay at Meta if you want to optimize for money.
• CygnusX1 (Microsoft): Getting an interview and failing is better than auto-reject at the application stage.

Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations (r/technology)

• SPEZ_IS_A_JABRONI: u/spez is a jabroni
• agangofoldwomen: There was a time a year or two ago where if you asked AI “how do I stop toppings from falling off my homemade pizza” it would tell you “super glue” because that was an answer Redditors ironically upvoted on the same question we got here.
• Tiraloparatras25: It shouldn’t have been there in the first place. A Redditor is not a reputable source.

Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers | Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year. (r/technology)

• CucumberWisdom: This is already well established law. The company’s can keep the refunds. Consumers have no recourse
• teh_maxh: Since the tariff cost was added to the item price instead of being charged separately, I would expect the court to rule that Logitech can keep the money. (To be clear, letting companies profit on illegal tariffs and encouraging price opacity are bad outcomes. They’re just what I expect to see.)
• GNUGradyn: I think legally it makes sense that they’d be allowed to keep it. They increased the price and you paid it anyway. It doesn’t really matter why they increased it since you agreed to it. Though it’s still very shitty of them to double dip

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Scientific rigor is an architecture problem

The official Google Research Blog published this post on August 21, 2026. It describes the Biomarker Discovery Framework, a multi-agent system for turning continuous wearable signals into candidate biomarkers that researchers can investigate. Its most important idea is not that a language model can automate biomedical discovery. It is that an agent can contribute to discovery only when the surrounding system separates creative reasoning from numerical evidence, makes every claim traceable, and gives both adversarial checks and human reviewers explicit authority to reject weak results.