The day in AI and tech
Thursday 25 June 2026
63 events from 20 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence44 events
- The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Urges Congress to Crack Down on AI Distillation By Chinese Rivals — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- South Korea’s ‘Ant’ Army Is Driving an AI Market Frenzy — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- California launches a statewide tracker to monitor AI-related job loss — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta reverses decision to reassign employees to AI training roles — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Beehiiv’s new Cloudflare partnership gives indie journalists a new level of control over AI crawlers — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: At BIO 2026, industry wrestled with Washington politics, and making AI work better — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Memory is a Structural Story for AI: Lovell — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI-Written books Are here — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Figma Unveils Full-Stack Canvas for the AI Era — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Took Your Job? California Wants to Know — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google gives Demand Gen new AI creative and reporting tools — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Ads API v24.2 adds AI transparency, stronger security and new reporting — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Amazon’s big Prime Day pitch is its AI assistant. Is it working? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Your AI salesforce is already selling your brand. The question is who trained it. — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Repositioning retail for the AI era — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: FDA’s breakthrough pipeline fills up with generative AI devices — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- 81.8% Of My ‘AI Assistant’ Traffic Was Fake. The Googlebot Number Was Worse via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: FDA gives generative AI in radiology two breakthrough designation nods — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- What if you were held accountable for your AI slop? — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- The AI-Tutor Revolution That Wasn’t — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Democracy has a listening problem. These AI tools could actually help — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- WordPress Developers Say New AI Feature Does Not Belong In Core via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI Search Optimization Isn’t The Hard Part – It’s Getting Buy-In via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- What 2 Content Strategists Say AI Should Never Write For You [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- ‘More relevant than making fires’: Explorer Scouts launch badges for AI and digital age — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- US arbitration giant rolls out ‘legal layer’ for agentic commerce — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- House Democrats seek SEC answers on AI investment advisors — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- A hidden predictor of sudden cardiac death uncovered by deep learning — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s Mueller Explains How AI Search Impressions Get Counted via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Alibaba Slides to 16-Month Low After Anthropic’s AI Accusations — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- How agents are transforming work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- JPMorgan's Craig on AI Valuation Concerns — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Says Alibaba ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Model — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
Biotech3 events
- STAT+: Next-gen CRISPR tools improve editing accuracy in embryos, but also stoke ethical concerns — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: Biosecure didn’t stop China’s rise in biotech. Some lawmakers want to do more — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- A 1970s patent that changed the course of commercial biotechnology — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech1 event
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity9 events
- Polymarket to Refund Users After Scammers Swipe Millions in Website Exploit — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threats — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay Bulletin: Smart TV Proxyware, 24-Year curl Bug, AI Crime Forums + 13 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Surviving the Mythos Era: Richard Bejtlich on the Case for NDR — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New Mistic Backdoor Linked to KongTuke in ClickFix and ModeloRAT Campaigns — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access — 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.