The day in AI and tech
Wednesday 24 June 2026
61 events from 18 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence37 events
- OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Will AI spark a scientific renaissance — or a diffuse monoculture? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Here’s one thing AI can’t do. — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: Eli Lilly dives into hair loss treatments with investment in AI startup Absci — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- AI is a 'Two-Sided Coin for Us': Brachlianoff — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Congresswoman denies staff used AI to write defense funding amendment — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Leaked Code Suggests Anthropic Is Preparing to Bring Fable 5 Back — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Class-Action Lawsuit Blames AI for Causing Gas Price Inflation in California — Car and Driver (opens Car and Driver's report in a new tab)Read on Car and Driver (opens in a new tab)
- Towards Conversational AI for Disease Management — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hollow Brook's Richter Eyes Opportunities Beyond AI Hype — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s testing reveals classified U.S. government systems have vulnerabilities, says anonymous source — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Figma adds code layers, support for animations, more AI features in new update — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Figma now has AI motion graphics and shader tools — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Sunrun Surges Over 30% on Tesla Deal to Supply Power for AI — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: A dispatch on AI from BIOtech’s big summer bash — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: AI wades into a vexing medical mystery: What causes sudden cardiac death? — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- The Accessibility Tree Is How AI Agents Read Your Site & It’s Breaking via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- A 13-word edit can steer what deep-research AI agents recommend — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- B2B brands rank in Google but appear in just 3% of AI Overviews — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Most businesses are measuring AI wrong, and it’s costing them — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: introducing the Engineering issue — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Why AI Visibility Does Not Only Depend On SEO — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Canada’s AtkinsRealis Seeks US Approval for Nuclear Tech to Power AI Boom — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Dawn of the Apex Agentic Adversary — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google DeepMind Admits Large-Scale AI Agent Deployment Is Unsafe Today via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Grounding Wars Are Coming: How AI Visibility Creates Its Own Black-Hat Playbook via @sejournal, @purnavirji — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Can we trust scientific images in the era of AI? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SK Hynix Seeks $29 Billion With US Listing to Fund AI Boom — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Women could solve the AI trust gap, but they aren’t in the room — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SoftBank Seeks Stake in Japan’s Top Utility to Power AI Boom — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips9 events
- Data Center Demand to Help Double Australian Power Needs by 2050 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Qualcomm reveals Meta as first Big Tech customer for data centre chips — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- A new paper argues Microsoft exaggerated its quantum claims a year ago — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Micron profits soar nearly 1,400% amid global memory chip shortage — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla, Sunrun team up on 16 GW virtual power plant for data centers — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Hyperscalers Ditch Canada Investor Calls and Buyers Don’t Care — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Dubai Holding Weighs Stake in Bain’s Data Center Group Hscale — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- DoJ Seizes Huione Cloud Account Tied to Cyber Scam Money Laundering — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Space3 events
- Daily briefing: NASA to launch satellite-rescue mission — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- A spacecraft is falling to its doom — can NASA save it? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX Holder Andreessen Says Starship Opens Path to AI in Space — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
Energy Tech1 event
Cybersecurity8 events
- One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line" — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- CISA Warns Critical Lantronix EDS5000 Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Amadey and StealC Malware Network Disrupted, 27M Stolen Credentials Recovered — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cordyceps CI/CD Flaws Expose 300+ GitHub Repositories to Supply-Chain Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SecondFi traces Cardano wallet exploit to address-level issue — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Ultimate Member WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 200k Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Cisco Unified CM Flaw Exploited After PoC Reveals File-Write Path to Root — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- StarkWare introduces 'Private KYC' to address personal data breaches — 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.