Wednesday 26 August 2026
Top stories today:
Apple unveils new Mac mini, delivering up to 4x faster AI performance
Meta, state AGs discuss mid-trial settlement in addiction case
Anthropic pitches $30T+ revenue opportunity to IPO investors
OpenAI says JalapeƱo chip beats NVIDIA on AI efficiency, latency
ChatGPT Work can now sign in to websites on web, mobile
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1. Apple unveils new Mac mini with M6, M5 Pro, delivering up to 4x faster AI performance
The M6 version starts at $899, while the M5 Pro starts at $1,699.
Sep. 22: the new Mac mini goes on sale.
16GB of unified memory comes standard, configurable up to 32GB, with memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s.
The 2nm M6 features a 12-core CPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine.
M5 Pro comes with up to an 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU.
A new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra also debuted, offering up to 512GB of unified memory, starting at $2,499
M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture with 4.4TB/s inter-die bandwidth and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU.
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3. Meta, state AGs said to discuss mid-trial settlement in social media addiction case
29 states are seeking financial penalties and mandatory changes to how Meta and its platforms operate.
Meta and its platforms allegedly violated state consumer protection and federal privacy laws.
Meta has denied the statesā allegations and accused AGs of seeking unreasonable design changes.
$1.4T in penalties could hit Meta if it loses at trial, per the companyās own estimates.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri denied delaying making its āTake a Breakā teen safety feature the default for ~3 years.
<1% of teens used Instagramās opt-in āTake a Breakā tool at launch, an ex-Meta staffer testified.
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5. Anthropic said to pitch $30T+ revenue opportunity to IPO investors, topping SpaceX
Anthropicās estimate would exceed SpaceXās recent $28.5T figure:
Anthropicās offering could top SpaceXās if investors buy into its potential.
Next few weeks: Anthropic is expected to unveil its IPO financial disclosures, with a public debut possible in Sep.-Oct.
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7. OpenAI says JalapeƱo chip beats NVIDIA on AI efficiency, latency tests
JalapeƱo delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt than NVIDIAās GB200 and GB300 across GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5 1T, per OpenAI:
The chip also delivered 1.7x-3.6x lower end-to-end latency across the three models
OpenAI plans to deploy JalapeƱo in āsmall volumesā by 2026-end and āramp the volume upā into 2027.
Relatedly, OpenAI data center head Chris Malone has left the company amid a broader executive exodus.
