AI News Wrap and Quiz: 25th August 2026

Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference ↗ OpenAI published the first performance results for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip. On GPT-OSS 120B, it says the chip delivered roughly 1.9x more peak throughput per kilowatt and around 1.7x lower end-to-end latency than the comparison system. The gains carried across DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2.5 as well. OpenAI…