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🖥️ Apple refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio with new chips
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- Apple has updated its desktop lineup, giving the Mac mini a new M6 chip while the Mac Studio moves up to the M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra chip, with prices rising across the board.
- The M6 is Apple's first 2-nanometer design, a 12-core chip with 32 total Neural Engine cores that Apple says doubles the AI power of the M5, and buyers can step up to an M5 Pro version for $1,699.
- The Mac mini now starts at $899 with just 256GB of storage, the Mac Studio at $2,499, and the M5 Ultra Studio, Apple's first quad-die chip, joining two M5 Max chips, costs at least $5,499.
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🛂 Trump proposes $103K H-1B visa fee
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- The Trump administration has proposed a new rule that would charge a $103,265 fee for H-1B visas covering foreign workers who fall under the program's yearly cap on applications.
- The fee would help pay for running the immigration system, and unlike an earlier $100,000 version struck down by a judge in June, this one excludes universities, hospitals, and research institutions.
- H-1B visas let U.S. companies hire skilled foreign workers, and computer jobs like software engineering make up nearly two-thirds of approvals; the public gets 30 days to comment once the rule is published.
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💸 Anthropic's top AI struggles to win users
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- Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Opus 5, is failing to draw many users since its late-July launch, with cheaper options from the company pulling far more spending, according to billing data.
- The Ramp AI index, built from card data across 70,000 companies, shows Opus 5 captured just 3.5% of Anthropic model spend in July, while the older Opus 4.8 led with 28% and Fable 5 sat at 8%.
- Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $65 billion in July, up from $47 billion in May, and the company told investors it now has 6,000 customers each paying $100,000 or more a year.
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🌶️ OpenAI chip beats Nvidia's Blackwell
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- OpenAI has revealed "Jalapeño," an inference chip built with Broadcom for running AI models, that beat Nvidia's Blackwell along with AMD and Google chips on power efficiency across several top open source models.
- The chip went from team hiring to tape-out in about 16 months, and hit over 700 tokens per second per user on DeepSeek R1, without speculative decoding or splitting prefill and decode work across separate chips.
- The current A0 version already leads on tokens per megawatt, while a newer B0 chip in the fab adds roughly 25% more efficiency, delivering 13.4 PFLOPs on TSMC's N3P at just 700W, and ships with HBM4 memory.
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📺 Netflix may sell rival streaming plans
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- Netflix is reportedly weighing whether to sell subscriptions to rival streaming services like Peacock and Fox One inside its own app, a shift for a company that long said it needed no such help.
- The talks follow a June deal in France, where Netflix added broadcaster TF1 with live channels and on demand shows, results Co-CEO Greg Peters called promising during a July earnings call.
- The discussions are early, with no deal planned yet, and it stays unclear whether Netflix would sell subscriptions like Amazon's Prime Video does or fold the content into its own library as YouTube did with Peacock.
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🍉 Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon
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- Meta will soon roll out Hatch, a paid AI agent aimed at consumers, as part of Mark Zuckerberg's push to make money from the company's heavy AI spending and expand revenue beyond advertising.
- Built as a consumer version of the OpenClaw agent, Hatch is expected to use tiered pricing, including a premium subscription costing as much as $199.99 a month, according to internal documents seen by The Information.
- Hatch is designed to connect with sites like DoorDash, Etsy, Reddit, Yelp, and Outlook, and to offer a customizable dashboard with tools such as a fitness tracker or a trip planner.
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