OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled OpenAI's first custom chip on June 24, called Jalapeño. <cite index="2-1">The chip is built to run OpenAI's products, such as serving its AI models to users in ChatGPT.</cite> <cite index="5-4">Broadcom's chief executive said it is showing cost savings of roughly 50% compared with typical AI graphics chips.</cite> <cite index="8-3">OpenAI plans to start using the chips to handle customer queries later this year.</cite>
OpenAI and Broadcom show their first custom chip to run AI more cheaply
Anthropic put its Claude AI inside the Slack chat app, and Samsung gave its staff OpenAI tools three years after banning ChatGPT.
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Anthropic released a tool called Claude Tag on June 23 that puts its Claude AI inside the workplace chat app Slack as a shared team member. <cite index="45-1">The tool builds memory for each channel and performs tasks on its own.</cite> <cite index="39-5">It is available in a test version for customers with Claude Enterprise and Claude Team plans.</cite>
<cite index="20-4">Samsung Electronics agreed to give OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex tools to all its staff in Korea and to its device division worldwide.</cite> <cite index="20-5">OpenAI called it one of its largest business deployments to date.</cite> <cite index="28-4,28-5">In March 2023, Samsung engineers leaked sensitive source code through ChatGPT, and the company responded with a ban on generative AI tools.</cite>
<cite index="31-1">Agility Robotics plans to join the stock market through a merger with a listed shell company, Churchill Capital Corp XI, in a deal that values it at about $2.5 billion.</cite> <cite index="32-5">The deal is expected to generate over $600 million.</cite> <cite index="31-3">Agility is best known for Digit, a two-legged robot used across nine customer sites, including with Schaeffler, GXO, and Toyota.</cite>
<cite index="57-3">The cybersecurity agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand warned that frontier AI models are set within months to reshape attacks across the globe.</cite> <cite index="57-6">The agencies wrote that the timeline is not years, it is months.</cite> <cite index="52-2">They urged executives to understand security as a business risk.</cite>
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