The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 23 June 2026
72 events from 22 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence53 events
- India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Super PACs Trying to Influence the Midterms — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s @Claude Enters Workplace As A Slack Channel Coworker via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- EU allies join US pact to break reliance on Chinese AI supply chains — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Qwable: The Free Local Model That Thinks Like Claude Fable — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Super Mario is mathier than you think — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- How Are SEO Teams Actually Tracking AI Citations Across Six Engines? [Webinar] via @sejournal, @lorenbaker — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Walmart, 7-Eleven, Albertsons, and BP used AI to raise gas prices, lawsuit alleges — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Beats Anthropic's Banned Mythos Model—And Nobody's Shutting It Down — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agent Triggers Nuclear Strike After Getting Outmaneuvered in Civilization VI — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google updates AI Max reporting guidance and DSA transition plans — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- A New OpenClaw Competitor: ToqanClaw Promises Privacy in AI Agent Race — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare and beehiiv give publishers new AI crawler controls — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google Launches Ask Ad Manager, Its First AI Agent For Publishers via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Oracle layoffs: 21,000 jobs cut, software giant trades human talent for AI tech amid the SaaSpocalypse — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify launches AI-powered marketing automation tool — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- UN chief urges AI companies to ‘come clean’ about the pollution they generate — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Fake AI Agent Skill Passed Security Scans and Reportedly Reached 26,000 Agents — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The use of AI chatbots for news is on the rise — but not everywhere — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- AI chatbots are hitting the dating scene with advice on breaking the ice and breaking up — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Is Secretly Googling Things: This Tool Shows You Exactly What — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Google Search Console AI performance reports rolling out to more users — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Helping build shared standards for advanced AI — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Michael Caine’s AI-Generated Voice to Narrate ‘The Odyssey’ Audiobook Ahead of Christopher Nolan’s Movie — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: OpenEvidence will add FDA-cleared AI to detect heart disease — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- The Download: the future of chipmaking and Anthropic’s government clash — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Amazon launches Alexa+ Agentic Ads — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: Cadence raises $100 million to automate chronic disease care with regulated AI — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- Your customers are starting to trust AI more than your experts — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- StoReel Launches Canvas, AI Production Platform Targeting Microdrama Creators (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Agentic AI: The Weapon That No Longer Needs a Warrior — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI-Recommended Brands Saw 2.5x More Site Visits: Similarweb via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Tech Losses Pile Up as Investors Focus on AI Risks — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google Cautions Against Markdown Versions Of Websites For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Agentic AI commerce comes to Samsung’s smart TVs — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- One fake web page can be enough to trick AI shopping recommendations — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 4 Warning Signs Your Marketing Team Is Next For AI Cuts via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly clashes — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- 42 ways you should be using AI right now — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: A sweeping new AI to detect heart conditions is coming to OpenEvidence — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- Satya Nadella is asking the right AI question — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why we hired a head of people during the age of AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How Omio is building the future of conversational travel — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips4 events
- Trump's Quantum Push Wins Praise, But Experts Warn Bitcoin Isn't Ready — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Polaroid’s new ad campaign takes a dig at AI data centers — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer with all-to-all connectivity — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Space1 event
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR2 events
Cybersecurity9 events
- White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- FortiBleed Targeted FortiGate Firewalls in 110 Million-Credential Harvesting Operation — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- Trump Order Sets 2030 Deadline for Federal Post-Quantum Crypto Migration — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Malicious npm Packages Pose as PostCSS Tools to Deliver Windows RAT — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Trump signs orders to build a quantum computer and protect against the one that could break encryption — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Trump signs orders for quantum computer, cryptography upgrades — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (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.