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President Trump says Washington is discussing denuclearization with Beijing and Moscow, ahead of a Xi-Trump meeting at next month's APEC summit in Shenzhen.

Gross domestic product is the single number economists reach for when they want to know whether a country is growing or shrinking. A plain-English walkthrough of what GDP actually measures - the market value of all finished goods and services produced inside a country's borders - the three ways it can be calculated, why real GDP matters more than the nominal headline, what GDP per capita reveals about living standards, and the large slices of economic life the number quietly leaves out.

Zenzap (Israeli-founded) emerged from stealth with $44M total funding, including a $33M Series A co-led by Bessemer and Lightspeed, for AI agents inside team chats.

A headline that says the economy grew 5% can be almost entirely inflation. This lesson separates the two GDP figures every economist keeps side by side - nominal GDP, measured at current-year prices, and real GDP, measured at constant base-year prices - and shows why only the second one tells you whether people can actually buy more. Covers the rough subtraction that gets you from one to the other, how the gap compounds across decades of historical comparisons, and why statistical agencies keep moving the base year.

Pluto Security (Israel) emerged from stealth with $42M ($8.5M seed led by TLV Partners and a $34M Series A led by Jump Capital) to secure AI tools that employees build.

If real GDP strips inflation out of the headline number, something has to measure that inflation - and it isn't CPI. The GDP deflator is the ratio of nominal to real GDP expressed as an index, and it covers everything GDP covers: investment goods, government purchases and exports, not just the consumer basket. A walkthrough of how it's built, why it disagrees with CPI, why it gets revised repeatedly, and how to use it to tell price-driven growth apart from real production.

Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE, a San Francisco AI cybersecurity startup.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh declined to signal an October fed rate hike after hot PPI data, and traders cut the odds of a move this month to about 15% from over 25%.

A country can have an enormous economy and a poor population - total GDP can't tell the two apart, which is why analysts divide it by the number of people. This lesson covers what GDP per capita reveals about typical living standards, why the real and PPP-adjusted versions are the only ones worth comparing across borders, the rough bands that separate advanced from developing economies, and the two things the average still hides: unequal distribution and population growth eating into the headline.

Prime Intellect acquired Moondream, a Seattle vision-AI startup founded by AWS veterans.

GDP = C + I + G + (X − M) is the formula behind almost every GDP headline you'll read - the expenditure approach, the most widely reported way to calculate output. A breakdown of the four spending components: consumption, by far the largest at roughly 68% of U.S. GDP; business investment in equipment, structures, and inventory at about 17%; government spending on both consumption and investment; and net exports, which runs negative for most developed economies with a trade deficit.