From a local-first mouse tool to a balloon network pulled into wartime use, today’s stories show technology renegotiating control, health, and work — between platforms, cities, and the people using them.

Gemini 3.7 Flash pushes agents toward dependable, lower-cost work, DeepSeek reframes the agent stack as composable plugins, and Cerebras brings frontier inference closer to real time — while clearing rails, archives, and everyday abundance test what speed is for.