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OpenAI just dropped first benchmark results for Jalapeño, their custom inference chip. It delivers 1.5 to 1.9x more AI work per watt at peak throughput and 1.7 to 3.6x lower latency than existing systems. For interactive workloads like agents, it's 2.1 to 4.1x faster. Higher throughput AND lower latency in a single architecture. Most chips have to trade one for the other. Jalapeño was designed from the ground up for language model inference, not adapted from a general purpose GPU. They tested it across GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1, and Kimi K2.5 1T, showing the gains aren't locked to OpenAI's own models. Rated at 700W but sustained under 550W in testing. OpenAI used its own models to help design and optimize the chip. x.com/OpenAI/status/…

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The Nakamoto Project just launched a 12-week bitcoin education campaign in the Wall Street Journal. Six essays by leading thinkers, six full-page print ads, and 24 quarter-page ads. First essay is by @LynAldenContact. "The public discourse about bitcoin should really be better." partners.wsj.com/the-nakamoto-p…

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SpaceX is building Starbase Louisiana to support thousands of Starship flights per year with missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars.

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The @HRF just announced grants totaling over 500 million satoshis to 16 freedom tech projects worldwide through its Bitcoin Development Fund, and some of these are exactly what practical Bitcoin adoption should look like. BitSpenda: A mobile money-to-bitcoin bridge across Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, and Ghana. Non-custodial, no account required. Send bitcoin from a Lightning wallet, recipient gets local currency in their mobile money account. Project Island Resilience: Adding offline payments to Flash, a Jamaican Bitcoin wallet that raised and distributed over $10,000 in bitcoin within 72 hours after Hurricane Melissa. Now building Bluetooth, NFC, and ecash support so Bitcoin works during internet shutdowns and protests. Bitzed: Connecting mobile money directly to Bitcoin in Zambia. Buy bitcoin with mobile money, receive it in your own Lightning wallet. No bank, no exchange, no identity records. Libbitcoinkernel: Extracting Bitcoin's core security rules into reusable modules so developers can build secure wallets without duplicating critical code from scratch. WalletScrutiny: Auditing Bitcoin wallets to verify the software you're running actually matches the open-source code it claims to be. Especially relevant after the ColdCard vulnerability. Vector: A Nostr-based encrypted messenger with voice and video calls. No accounts, no metadata trails. Built for journalists, activists, and whistleblowers under authoritarian regimes. Flotilla Chat: Discord built on Nostr. Your identity is portable and the hosting provider can't delete your community. Built by the team behind the Nostr client Coracle. 0xchat: Nostr messaging with encrypted chat, file transfer, voice and video calls, Tor integration to mask your location, and a built-in Cashu wallet for private Bitcoin payments. 256 Foundation: Open-sourcing every component of a Bitcoin miner to break the hardware manufacturing oligopoly and make mining more accessible and decentralized. OpenAlert: Decentralized emergency alerts over Nostr that don't rely on Apple or Google push notifications. End-to-end encrypted with self-destructing messages. Since 2020, HRF's Bitcoin Development Fund has granted $12.2 million in BTC to 383 projects across 70 countries. Bitcoin is a human rights tool, not just a financial asset. hrf.org/latest/hrf-gra…

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Bloomberg's @EricBalchunas says $GLD and $IBIT are back in the top 10 most traded ETFs, knocking semiconductor ETFs down the list.

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"It's a mistake to think of robots as mechanical people. When personal computers took off, we didn't replace our brains. We got a little bit of computing in everything." @svlevine says robotics will follow the same path, a little bit of physical actuation in everything.

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