The day in AI and tech
Friday 12 June 2026
54 events from 18 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. One event, marked with its number of outlets, has a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence26 events
- Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Deep learning four decades of human migration — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Google Rolls Out AI Mode Information Agents To Ultra Subscribers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Jason Bateman on Five Possible Emmy Noms, a ‘Game Night’ Sequel, AI and His Spielberg-Size Studio Dream — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Moonshot AI's Kimi Work Brings 300 AI Agents to Your Desktop — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Americans Fear Job Losses Due to AI But Hope for Cancer, Alzheimer’s Cures: Anthropic Survey — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- The Truth of Karmelo Anthony’s Case Is Lost in a Sea of Racist AI Slop — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Discovery Platform Brings Agentic AI to Scientific Research — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- ‘O Horizon’ Review: Maria Bakalova and David Strathairn Are Reunited by App in a Slender AI Allegory — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Rebel Audio Launches Public Beta of AI Podcast Production Platform (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- We’re teaching AI to be evil — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Jeff Bezos’ AI startup aims to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- How to build a Claude Code-powered second brain for agency work — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Google delays Dynamic Search Ads migration to AI Max — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Amazingly, Apple may emerge unscathed from its AI mess — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- How AI prompt patterns vary by industry and shape search visibility — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI Overview Click Data Reveals Unexpected User Behavior Patterns For Marketers via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Rethinking MDR as Attackers and Defenders Embrace AI — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips4 events
- Improved quantum processor logical error rates via correction and detection — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Jomboy on Robot Umpires and the Future of Baseball — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Xiaomi delivers on Tesla’s decade-old robot charger vision with new home robotic arm — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Space3 events
- SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Musk Brought Price of Space Launches Down Says Former NASA Astronaut — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Meet the NASA crew who will keep Artemis III on track for its 2028 moon landing — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech2 events
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity13 events
- MonsterInsights Website Compromised And Sending Phishing Emails via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Install Rust Credential Stealer — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI Agents Still Can't Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Researchers Warn — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Iran-Linked Group That Hacked Kash Patel's Email Threatens World Cup With Hijacked FBI Drones — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Agentjacking Attack Tricks AI Coding Agents Into Running Malicious Code — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- INTERPOL Operation Takes Down Sniper Dz Phishing Platform, Arrests Administrator — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Europol Disrupts AudiA6 Crypto Laundering Service Used by Ransomware Gangs — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Chinese Region Pushes Coal Chemicals as Energy Security Fix — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Events are grouped automatically, by matching the publishers' headlines and times; no person reviews the grouping. An event reported by several outlets has its own page listing who reported what and when.