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OpenAI’s Jalapeno AI Chip, SpaceX’s $25B Debt Raise, and is STRC Breaking?

Podcast: Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin
Published: Jun 24, 2026
Duration seconds: 3614
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Summary

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! OpenAI dominated headlines today when it announced that it has developed an ASIC chip for AI inference with Broadcom called Jalapeno – and it’s already in use, going from design to tapeout in 9 months. For today’...