Security leads the day as U.S. jets intercept Russian bombers near Alaska’s ADIZ. NORAD treats such flights as routine, yet data show incursions up since 2022, keeping tensions in focus.
AI and search make headlines with Perplexity’s new Search API, built to return web results in milliseconds for grounding LLMs after Bing’s API sunset. Benchmarks cite sub-second latency, fitting a push toward curiosity-driven tools.
Tesla moves to release FSD V14 to early access next week, with Musk saying 14.2 may feel almost sentient. Advocates highlight learning from fleet miles, while critics point to NHTSA probes and regulatory friction.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash gets clearer step-by-step help for homework, tidier responses, and better image reasoning, shown by a domino puzzle example. Separate chatter says Gemini 3 could arrive in early October, a brisk cadence that draws both excitement and questions about testing rigor.
Marc Andreessen surfaces claims that Unitree’s G1 humanoid sends sensor data to Chinese servers, raising privacy and export concerns.
Macro data surprise as U.S. Q2 GDP is revised to 3.8 percent, which could cool expectations for rapid rate cuts.
Policy watch, the U.S. Senate schedules an Oct 1 hearing on digital asset taxation, intersecting with efforts to classify major tokens as commodities and new tax reporting partnerships.
Markets debate Google’s trajectory amid reports Meta may use Gemini for ad targeting. The talk underscores Google’s AI position and a strong 2025 stock run.
AI sovereignty draws fire after reports that Germany’s plan amounts to ChatGPT on local servers, contrasted with Meituan training a 560B model from scratch, highlighting a gap between regulation and compute.
A profile note on Elon Musk frames output as driven by obsession and problem solving rather than strict discipline, echoing research on intrinsic motivation.
In creation tools, Bilawal Sidhu spotlights procedural 3D city building in Blender’s iCity, where rule-based systems offer control, and hybrid workflows with generative methods gain ground.
