not much happened today

**Google** released a dense September update including **Gemini Robotics 1.5** with enhanced spatial/temporal reasoning, **Gemini Live**, **EmbeddingGemma**, and **Veo 3 GA** powering creative workflows. They also introduced agentic features like restaurant-reservation agents and reduced pricing for **Gemini 2.5 Flash**. **Meta AI** unveiled the open-weight **Code World Model (CWM) 32B**, excelling in code semantics and math benchmarks, with innovations in training code models via execution traces. Local-first coding setups highlight **Qwen3-Coder-30B** running efficiently on consumer GPUs, paired with tools like **Cline** and **LM Studio**. Runtime improvements include **vLLM v1** supporting hybrid models and **mlx-lm** adding batch inference on Apple silicon. In infrastructure, **FlashAttention 4** was reverse-engineered revealing a ~20% speedup from architectural optimizations. **Perplexity AI** advances its independent web index and browsing API with upcoming feed refreshes. Embedding latency improvements were achieved by **Superhuman** using **Baseten**.