August 31st, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by amazing infrastructure engineer Jason Powell.

In this episode:

* Semianalysis says OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is industry leading

* DuckLabs joins AWS, DuckDB remains in an open foundation

* Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash in stealth as Ox Alpha

* Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion dollars

* Bill Gates writes about the turbulent AI era

* Paul moves our CI into the agent loop

* Gary Marcus writes about Anthropic's $30 Trillion TAM

* SourceHut bans code written by AI

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