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🤖 Hardwired AI Chips Hit 17K Tokens/Sec, OpenAI Stayed Silent Before a School Shooting
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🤖 Hardwired AI Chips Hit 17K Tokens/Sec, OpenAI Stayed Silent Before a School Shooting

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February 23, 20267m 15s

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A Toronto startup called Taalas is challenging everything the AI industry believes about chip design — and their hardwired silicon is hitting speeds that could make powerful AI ubiquitous in everyday devices. Meanwhile, Google researchers are questioning whether longer AI reasoning chains are actually better, and their findings could cut inference costs in half. Samsung is taking a bold new approach to mobile AI with the Galaxy S26, building a coordinated team of specialized AI agents directly into the operating system. One of the most ethically charged stories in recent AI history has emerged from British Columbia, where OpenAI employees flagged violent ChatGPT conversations before a school shooting — and leadership chose not to contact law enforcement. ByteDance's research division may have cracked one of the hardest problems in reasoning AI, using a chemistry-inspired framework to dramatically stabilize training. India is hosting a major AI summit with leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, and heads of state, signaling its growing role in global AI governance. And a Google VP has issued a stark warning to two types of AI startups that may already be on borrowed time.

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