Short takes on what matters in the world of AI: what's noise and what's next.
Published every Monday by Johan Sanneblad, CEO of TokenTek.
OpenAI's AI-designed Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on inference, OpenAI drops Cursor after its SpaceX acquisition, Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and Anthropic previews a hardware standard for AI agents.
Previously
- Aug 24 Tech Insights 2026 Week 35 Stripe buys AI gateway OpenRouter for 7 billion dollars, OpenAI pauses frontier training as its Astra model nears a critical cyber threshold, Asana finishes a five-year migration in two weeks using Codex, and GitHub explains its eight-hour outage.
- Aug 17 Tech Insights 2026 Week 34 OpenAI previews an Ultrafast tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 750 tokens per second; Anthropic adds invisible watermarks to Claude and makes auto mode default; Lovable raises 400 million dollars at a 13.3 billion valuation.
- Aug 10 Tech Insights 2026 Week 33 Google moves Demis Hassabis to Alphabet Chief Scientist and reshuffles DeepMind. OpenAI updates GPT-5.6 Sol and offers unlimited free Luna chats. The EU AI Act enforcement begins, and Stanford uses AI to design 16 working viruses.