Aug 31, 2026
OpenAI is cutting off Cursor’s direct model access ahead of Astra, while IBM’s claimed quantum advantage already faces a classical challenge.
Jim Love covers the technology headlines for Monday, August 31, 2026.
OpenAI will stop supplying models directly to Cursor on November 12 following Cursor’s $60-billion...
Aug 29, 2026
AI Hardware Arms Race & Humanoid Robot Olympics: Apple Chips, OpenAI ‘Jalapeno,’ Meta Models, and Robot Prices Plummet
Jim Love, Marcel Gagné, and retired John Pinard cover tech news and a deep dive on robots. They note Linux’s 35th anniversary and how the name changed from “Freax” to Linux. They discuss...
Aug 28, 2026
OpenAI has unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom AI inference chip, and the early results could challenge one of Nvidia’s biggest advantages.
OpenAI says Jalapeño delivers between 1.5 and 1.9 times more AI work per watt than the systems it tested against. SemiAnalysis watched benchmark runs inside OpenAI’s lab and...
Aug 27, 2026
Meta will pay at least $12.1 billion—and potentially as much as $17.1 billion over ten years—to settle claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users.
Jim Love examines why the record settlement may still be a smart move for Meta. The company admits no wrongdoing, limits its legal exposure and avoids a...
Aug 26, 2026
Apple is making a much bigger bet on local AI. Jim Love looks at the new M6 Mac mini, Apple’s first 2nm processor, with Neural Accelerators built into every GPU core, dual 16-core Neural Engines and significantly faster processing. At the high end, the new M5 Ultra Mac Studio can offer up to 80 GPU cores and 512GB of...