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The Blockspace Podcast

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

June 24, 2026·1h 0m·w/ Jesse Myers

Show Notes

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’s interview, The Smarter Web Company’s Head of Bitcoin Strategy, Jesse Myers, explains why Strategy’s STRC is trading below its $100 target and why he believes it’s not time to panic. For other news, we cover SpaceX’s $25 billion debt raise – which saw $89 billion in interest – IREN’s tax abatement troubles for an OK data center, and CoreWeave’s latest deployment in Sweden.

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