Trend Pulse US · news updated Oct 22, 10:30 AM (Seattle)

What the US is searching for today

Top Google searches in the United States and the news behind them. Checked every 10 minutes.

⚠️ Earthquakes

Magnitude 6 and stronger, anywhere in the world, in the last 2 days. From the US Geological Survey, within minutes.

🚀 Could be a big story soon

Searches growing fast right now, checked every 10 minutes. Post early, before everyone else does.

🌍 World headlines

The biggest stories around the world right now: covered by several major news outlets in the last 12 hours, even if few Americans are searching for them yet.

📊 Biggest searches today

The most searched topics in the US in the last 24 hours, with the news behind them. 🧊 Icefall Pick = the 3 to post.

🆕 Newest trends

Just started trending, newest first, from Google's news feed (checked every 10 minutes).

👀 Following

New videos, blog posts and projects from people worth following. Checked every hour.

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

AI researcher · former head of AI at Tesla · OpenAI co-founder

  • ✍️ Blog post · Apr 30, 2026 Sequoia Ascent 2026 summary Post on X
  • 💻 Project · Mar 14, 2026 · ⭐ 2,031 jobs

    A research tool for visually exploring Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook data. This is not a report, a paper, or a serious economic publication — it is a development tool for exploring BLS data visually.

    Post on X
  • 💻 Project · Mar 6, 2026 · ⭐ 98K autoresearch

    AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

    Post on X
  • ✍️ Blog post · Feb 11, 2026 microgpt Post on X
  • 💻 Project · Jan 3, 2026 · ⭐ 523 rustbpe

    The missing tiktoken training code

    Post on X
  • ✍️ Blog post · Dec 19, 2025 2025 LLM Year in Review Post on X

⭐ People in the news

Who everyone is talking about: famous names we follow, plus people found automatically in today's Google searches and Wikipedia's most-read pages. 🧊 Icefall Pick = the 3 biggest right now.