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Today — Friday, 26 June 2026

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  1. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño" — their first custom LLM inference chip (June 24) — Designed in nine months and targeting ~50% inference-cost reduction versus Nvidia GPUs, Jalapeño is slated for end-of-2026 deployment at gigawatt scale. This is the clearest signal yet that AI's largest customers are structurally reducing dependence on merchant silicon, creating a long-run headwind for Nvidia's data-centre GPU franchise. [1][2]

  2. Anthropic labels Alibaba's API extraction "the largest known distillation attack" on Claude (June 24) — Some 25,000 fraudulent accounts generated 28.8 million exchanges with Claude between April 22 and June 5, 2026; Anthropic notified the U.S. Senate and called it a deliberate campaign to distil Claude's capabilities into a rival model. The scale and political escalation confirm that model-IP theft has moved from theoretical risk to active state-linked operation. [3][4]

  3. Apple raises Mac and iPad prices $100–$200, blames AI-driven memory squeeze (June 25) — MacBook Air, MacBook Neo, and iPad lines all saw mid-cycle price increases, with Apple citing scarce high-bandwidth memory consumed by AI data-centre buildout. AAPL fell 6.12% on the day — the sharpest sign yet that the AI-compute arms race is repricing consumer hardware. [7][8]

  4. Agility Robotics files for public markets via SPAC at $2.5B valuation (June 24) — The humanoid-robotics company will merge with Churchill Capital XI (Nasdaq: AGLT), raising $600M+ through a SPAC plus a Foxconn-led PIPE. It is the first scaled humanoid-robotics company to seek a public-market reference price, giving the sector a capital-markets benchmark. [10]

  5. Getty Images surges ~150% on multi-year OpenAI display deal (announced June 21 — stock move ongoing) — Getty's licensed editorial and creative photography will surface inside ChatGPT's search experience. The deal validates a licensing-not-litigation strategy for legacy content owners; the sustained stock move signals that markets view recurring AI-display revenue as structurally valuable, not one-time. [11][12]

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