The day in AI and tech
Wednesday 17 June 2026
71 events from 23 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence43 events
- Tom Holland Speaks Out on AI and Why Artists Are ‘Safe’: ‘Creativity Has to Do With the Human Experience’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Psychologists Say Patients Are Bringing AI Into Therapy Sessions: Survey — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Alabama’s Self-Proclaimed ‘AI Watchman’ Unseats Incumbent Public Service Commissioner — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Chi-Hua Chien saw Facebook coming; now he says the real AI winners won’t be selling AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s updated Claude Design gives vibe coders—and their design overlords—more control — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The AI credibility gap is real — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Mathematicians are developing rules for AI use — other fields should follow — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Estonia Wants to Give AI Agents Their Own National ID — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI can stop the next financial crisis before it starts — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- GLAAD Says AI Is Failing LGBTQ Users—And Warns the Risk Is Growing — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- I advise the Vatican and the UN on AI — don’t dismiss the Pope’s message as theology — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Humans outperform AI at this highly rigorous mathematics test — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- 80% of ChatGPT product recommendations change when search is enabled: Study — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How should news organizations label their AI use for audiences? New studies suggest some answers — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- How AI is revealing the secret lives of animals from hummingbirds to pumas — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- 7 AI search shifts you can’t afford to ignore — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- As G7 wraps, OpenAI and Anthropic meet with world leaders to discuss the future of AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Sinclair Invests in IRCODE, a ‘Shazam for Images’ AI Vision Start-Up, and Sets Interactive TV Rollouts in Two Markets — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Americans Fear AI’s Societal Impact and Don’t Believe Government Can Regulate It, Pew Study Finds — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI search grounded in Facebook posts? What could go wrong? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The Integrated Search Brief That Aligns SEO, PPC & Content In The AI Search Era via @sejournal, @coreydmorris — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- This hidden Gemini feature uses AI to teach you to be a tech savant — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Apple Investors Are Tired of AI Promises, Want Tangible Progress — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Doctors Are Worried About AI. They Use It Anyway. — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Malicious JetBrains Plugins Steal AI API Keys as Chrome Extensions Capture Chatbot Chats — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google’s Updated Guidance Now Says It’s “Fine” To Use LLMs.txt For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Andy Serkis Says AI Brings New Responsibility to Storytelling: ‘The World Is Changing Fast but Human Creativity Will Evolve Alongside It’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Building Scientists in the AI Era — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- AI Could Create a New Inequality Crisis, Says IMF Chief — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Five Influencer Marketing OGs Are Launching a New, AI-powered Platform — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028. — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- ASML CEO Warns of Possible Supply Constraints on Musk’s Terafab — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy11 events
- Nvidia Built Robots That Train Themselves Using AI Coding Agents — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI coding agents can autonomously direct robot training — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Uber, Stellantis, And Wayve Want To Blanket The World In Robotaxis — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Thomas Bangalter Finds Life After the Robot Suit — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- After San Francisco, The Lucid Gravity Robotaxi Eyes Its Next Big Market — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The anti-humanoid: Why Genesis AI’s new robot design isn’t a fake human — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The next humanoid robot might not look human at all — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Mobileye, Supplier Of Robotaxi Tech, Is Launching Its Own Robotaxi Fleet In The U.S. — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech2 events
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity9 events
- Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Crypto Clipper Campaign Abuses Fake Reviews, AI Narrators, and VirusTotal Comments — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about hackers extorting Novo, an FDA about-face, and more — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- 144 Mastra npm Packages Compromised via Hijacked Contributor Account — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Joomla JCE Flaw Allowing PHP Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report 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.