The day in AI and tech
Thursday 18 June 2026
78 events from 24 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence45 events
- AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX’s Epic Fundraising Campaign for AI Has Only Just Begun — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google AI leader Noam Shazeer leaves company for OpenAI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- US Looks To Expand Nuclear as AI Drives Up Energy Demand — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google, Microsoft Back Draft AI Agent Discovery Spec via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Perplexity's AI Agent Now Has a Brain That Learns From Its Own Mistakes — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Hugo Award Finalist ‘I AM AI’ Novelette Optioned for Feature Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- HIVE secures $220M AI infrastructure contract with Bell and Cohere — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Google launches AI agent for Ad Manager — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- USA Today vs. Google AI Overviews: A World Cup battle for breaking news traffic — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Reimagining machine vision with optical computing — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- New usage analytics and updated spend controls for enterprises — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Bitcoin miners need billions to fund AI ambitions, led by IREN’s $21B gap — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Pew: 60% of Americans read AI summaries in search results — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Panjaya.ai, Shortical Partner on AI Dubbing for Microdramas in Six Languages — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Apple to raise prices as AI boom pushes up chip costs — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Who decides when AI is too dangerous? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Rank And AI Citation Aren’t The Same Number via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Alchemy's AI-driven identity and payment service gains access to Visa network — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Accenture shares set to fall to lowest since 2017 as AI threat mounts — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Google just released an AI opt-out feature. Your competitors hope you use it. — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI Needs Guardrails — the NO FAKES Act Can Create Them: Guest Post by Lyor Cohen and Harvey Mason Jr. — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Orphaned AI Agents: How to Find Hidden Access Risks Inside Your Network — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Working remotely could make you more vulnerable to a layoff than AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Resonac CEO on Strong AI Demand, China Risk — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI has entered the workforce: tax tech profits, not people — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Google Exposes The Fundamental Flaw Of LLMs.txt via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI took over my life for a year. Here’s what happened — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why Calling Yourself The Best Could Be Helping Your Competitors Win In AI Search via @sejournal, @lilyraynyc — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Why do AI models struggle with online hate speech detection? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- In the Age of AI, Higher Ed’s Edge Is Being Human — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Dorsey’s Block says new AI tool handles 15% of code work — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- The competitive advantage AI can’t automate — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The work AI can’t do — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Midjourney Medical goes from generating ‘cat images’ to full-body ultrasound scans — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- How to turn off AI in your Google Docs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Dreams of Violets’ Review: What Does a Film Made Entirely with AI Look Like? Ash Koosha’s Iranian Protest Drama Is Dramatically Numbing, but It’s Still a Startling Portent of the Future — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Algorand Plans to Be Ready for Quantum Computing Threat by End of 2027 — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Reconfigurable quantum computer juggles 98 qubits — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy7 events
- Rivian owners file lawsuit alleging false promises on self-driving features — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Rivian owners sue over false promises on self-driving features — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Sweden tells EU to reject Tesla ‘FSD’ unless speeding is removed — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla teases new FSD features — but it’s still not the self-driving promised — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- This Ghost in the Shell keyboard makes me want to activate the hundred spidery robot fingers inside my regular fingers — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Space3 events
- NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
- FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: FDA advisory panel endorses Moderna mRNA flu vaccine that was subject of controversy — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
Energy Tech5 events
- Honda and QuantumScape (QS) team up to make solid-state batteries — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Honda Has A New Partner For Solid-State EV Batteries — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Why General Motors Is Betting on Sodium-Ion Batteries — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya’s case for going solar — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Nanocrystal-tailored recombination for all-perovskite tandem solar modules — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity12 events
- Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Chat Abuse, NastyC2 npm Packages, Device-Code Phishing + 25 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft Details Windows Clipper Malware Campaign Using USB LNK Worm and Tor-Based C2 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)
- The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- INC Ransomware Emerges as Major RaaS Threat in 2026 with 830+ Victims Since 2023 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- DragonForce Hackers Abuse Microsoft Teams Relays to Hide Backdoor.Turn C2 Traffic — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The Scripts on Your Checkout Page Are Now a PCI DSS Problem — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Tech titans are hacking their bodies for a longer life: is there science behind their methods? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- France to stop certifying products lacking quantum-resistant encryption — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- France to Phase Out Non-Quantum Encryption as Bitcoin Security Concerns Grow — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (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.