Silicon, Theft, and a Locked Door

This week's episode digs into the moment the AI race moved from pure software to the hardware and control beneath it. OpenAI and Broadcom reveal Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom chip. Anthropic takes a 29-million-query theft of Claude to the White House. And GPT-5.6 arrives gated to about twenty vetted organizations. Along the way: the tool that turns messy PDFs into clean data, and a prompt move that lets a cheap model punch above its weight.What's Covered* OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño chip and the move off Nvidia* Anthropic's distillation accusation against Alibaba* GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, and the government-gated rollout* LlamaParse, the tool of the week* Metaprompting, the prompt of the weekSources* OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (TechCrunch)* Anthropic claims Alibaba illicitly distilled Claude (Tom's Hardware)* Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna (OpenAI)* LlamaParse (LlamaIndex)* Anthropic Economic Index, June 2026* Users shift from tokenmaxxing to efficiency (CNBC)* US clears Mythos 5 for 100+ organizations (TechCrunch)* Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic (TechCrunch)* Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July (Crypto Briefing) Get full access to The AI Vaults at theaivaults.substack.com/subscribe