# Everyone’s talking to their phones again

> Source: <https://9to5google.com/2026/08/27/everyones-talking-to-their-phones-again/>
> Published: 2026-08-27 11:00:00+00:00

Good morning and happy Thursday. Today I’m donating to Dolly Parton’s [Imagination Library](https://imaginationlibrary.com/) in her honor, reading about [OpenAI’s incredibly powerful new AI inference chip](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia), pretending to read [Bill Gates’ 6,000-word essay](https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make) about AI’s diverging futures, and actually watching this [2-hour deep dive of the upcoming Thief: The Dark Project Remastered](https://youtu.be/Fce_5U4BPbw) instead.

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