# AI News Digest - 2026-08-26

1. OpenAI showcased its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, and released Hot Chips benchmarking results in which SemiAnalysis reported that Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin on throughput and energy efficiency.

2. Ukraine opened access to its Avengers Labs labeled battlefield dataset to British firms, providing roughly five million annotated combat images and enabling pilot projects by three UK startups to train military AI.

3. OpenAI disrupted a covert Russian influence campaign that had used ChatGPT to generate pro‑Kremlin social media content, banned a cluster of accounts accessed via VPNs from Russia, and warned that the campaign's infrastructure could have been scaled.

4. Google launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, an AI product that integrated with systems such as iManage, DocuSign, and Everlaw and enabled partners to offer prebuilt AI agents for tasks like contract review.

5. Meta Platforms announced that it would launch a paid AI agent called Hatch in the coming weeks and that a new model named Watermelon was due in October.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openais-first-custom-chip-jalapeno-reportedly-beats-nvidias-blackwell-and-rubin-in-inference-benchmarks/](https://the-decoder.com/openais-first-custom-chip-jalapeno-reportedly-beats-nvidias-blackwell-and-rubin-in-inference-benchmarks/)

[OpenAI's first custom chip "Jalapeño" reportedly beats Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin in inference benchmarks](https://the-decoder.com/openais-first-custom-chip-jalapeno-reportedly-beats-nvidias-blackwell-and-rubin-in-inference-benchmarks/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ukraine-opens-its-massive-labeled-battlefield-dataset-to-british-firms-in-a-landmark-ai-weapons-partnership/](https://the-decoder.com/ukraine-opens-its-massive-labeled-battlefield-dataset-to-british-firms-in-a-landmark-ai-weapons-partnership/)

[Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership](https://the-decoder.com/ukraine-opens-its-massive-labeled-battlefield-dataset-to-british-firms-in-a-landmark-ai-weapons-partnership/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/russia-used-chatgpt-to-run-a-covert-influence-campaign-pushing-pro-kremlin-narratives-across-the-west/](https://the-decoder.com/russia-used-chatgpt-to-run-a-covert-influence-campaign-pushing-pro-kremlin-narratives-across-the-west/)

[Russia used ChatGPT to run a covert influence campaign pushing pro-Kremlin narratives across the West](https://the-decoder.com/russia-used-chatgpt-to-run-a-covert-influence-campaign-pushing-pro-kremlin-narratives-across-the-west/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-gemini-for-legal-work-to-automate-contracts-and-research/](https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-gemini-for-legal-work-to-automate-contracts-and-research/)

[Google launches Gemini for legal work to automate contracts and research](https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-gemini-for-legal-work-to-automate-contracts-and-research/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/metas-paid-ai-agent-hatch-launches-soon-with-a-new-model-called-watermelon-due-in-october/](https://the-decoder.com/metas-paid-ai-agent-hatch-launches-soon-with-a-new-model-called-watermelon-due-in-october/)

[Meta's paid AI agent Hatch launches soon, with a new model called Watermelon due in October](https://the-decoder.com/metas-paid-ai-agent-hatch-launches-soon-with-a-new-model-called-watermelon-due-in-october/)

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