Silicon Peppers, $30 Trillion Dreams, and Why Meta Scrapped Its AI Layoff Plan

Yesterday in AI | 27 August 2026 Silicon Peppers, $30 Trillion Dreams, and Why Meta Scrapped Its AI Layoff Plan The artificial intelligence industry spent this week projecting astronomical figures and unveiling custom silicon—while real-world enterprise deployments hit serious friction. This episode breaks down OpenAI and Broadcom unveiling "Jalapeño," a custom 700-watt inference processor claiming up to 3.6x faster speeds than Nvidia flagships, and what it signals for big tech's ...