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Liquid AI open-sourced two "decision models" that give a structured answer in a single pass, in about 8 ms on an RTX 4090 by Liquid's figures. Perplexity open-sourced two search models that read text, images and PDF pages without OCR, where a small model can query an index built by a big one. What each does, in plain words.

Boston Dynamics has appointed former Amazon Alexa and AGI chief Rohit Prasad as CEO, effective 7 October 2026. What the company confirmed, what Hyundai's 2028 Atlas factory target means, and what is still unknown.

Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX will build and run the Terafab AI chip complex in Texas, with TSMC at most subleasing part of it. Intel's CEO says Intel remains involved. What was said, what Terafab is, and the open questions.

The Wall Street Journal reports Broadcom is arranging more than $50bn in financing for the custom AI chip it is building with OpenAI, while Oracle is in talks with Apollo and Goldman Sachs to fund a big chip purchase. What is reported, how these deals work, and what remains unconfirmed.

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, by Anthropic's estimate, and jumps from 15.7% to 72.4% on Anthropic's OSWorld 2.1 computer-use test. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads are also halved. What is confirmed, what is company benchmark, and who it is for.

OpenAI is rolling GPT-6 into ChatGPT's Chat tab for every plan: GPT-6 Sol for paid tiers from 7 October, GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go from 8 October, plus "Intelligent UI" answers with charts, forms and mini tools. What changed, which Sol this is, and what OpenAI's own safety card flags.

NVIDIA’s LoGRA paper shows low-rank gradient sketches cutting average RL training memory by up to 45.7% on tested Qwen reasoning setups—and making 27B RL runnable on one 8×H100 node where dense Adam OOMs. What the method is, what Table 1 shows, and what it does not prove.

Avi Chawla’s 7 October explainer contrasts standard RAG with a Jev gate between retrieval and generation. What hybrid search already does, what typed probabilities add, why thresholds stay in code, and what this architecture does not replace.

Waymo’s own blog says it is adding a silver Ojai variant with interior trim updates, a wireless phone charger, new seats and rear armrests, ramping production in Mesa, Arizona, with rider service due first in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Step-by-step how-tos for Personal Bots, Marketplace templates, Team vs Template choices, group-chat handoffs, skills and routines, and a newsroom Research→Writer→Reviewer pattern—plus the full Marketplace catalog with implementation ideas as of 7 October 2026.