The day in AI and tech
Monday 29 June 2026
72 events from 20 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. One event, marked with its number of outlets, has a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence40 events
- OpenClaw Releases iOS and Android Companion Node Apps That Connect a Phone to a Self-Hosted AI Agent Gateway — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Ornith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not Humans — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The US’s largest transformer factory is coming for the AI power boom — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI couldn’t fix quality problems. So Ford rehired its most experienced engineers — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Former Governors Teams Up to Address AI Job Losses — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Ford thought AI could replace this job. Now it’s bringing experienced workers back. — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Report: AI Impact Starts with Strong Data Foundation — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without Surgery — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Tidal to Label AI-Generated Music, Ban Royalties from AI Song Streams — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI agents are not your “coworkers” — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- California Strikes Deal With Anthropic to Bring Claude AI to State Agencies — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Congress wants to ban AI companies from selling your health data — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google Defends AI Training As Fair Use In Governance Paper via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Samsung and SK Hynix announce a joint $518 billion investment in artificial intelligence — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Buying Reddit To Win AI Citations Is The New Link Farm via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Can AI drain DeFi? Separating Claude Mythos hype from reality — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Agent confidence on the technical frontier — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Selling AI As A Replacement Wins Attention & Kills Trust via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- My AI Night Shift — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- New data: AI makes work easier. And lonelier — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: Inside Amazon’s brutal AI-centric app-ification of HR — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 25 years ago, this scene from Steven Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ predicted the collapse of objective reality — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 4 tasks that solopreneurs can hand over to AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- British American Tobacco to slash 9,000 jobs as it turns to AI — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: Sword Health contracted to provide AI-supported physical therapy for an entire country — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- <strong>Baidu's CFO on How It Became a Full-Stack AI Player</strong> — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: Baidu’s CFO on Building a Full AI Stack (Podcast) — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- South Korea’s $518 billion AI chip push shows crypto is still losing the capital race — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Excessive AI spending risks global financial consequences, BIS warns — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- STAT+: AI scientist company Edison Scientific tapped by team behind Metsera to create new biotechs — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Trump Administration To Finance 5 New Nuclear Plants as Data Centers Demand More Energy — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- ‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy9 events
- South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- New Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ class action hilariously cites Electrek — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla starts FSD v14 ‘Lite’ rollout to HW3 cars — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- China Births Two Robot Unicorns as Sector Funding Stays Strong — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- GM-Backed Self-Driving Firm Momenta Seeks $752 Million From Hong Kong Listing — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- China widens Japan export curbs, targeting drone makers, nuclear firms and defense institutes — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech3 events
- STAT+: Moderna co-founder Kenneth Chien on the future of mRNA — and Moderna — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- Opinion: STAT+: The U.S.-China biotech crackdown may hurt the scientists America needs the most — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
- STAT+: Investor Clive Meanwell on designing biotechs for population health, and AI’s role as a catalyst — STAT News (opens STAT News's report in a new tab)
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech5 events
- Private keys, not smart contracts, caused 40% of crypto's $16 billion hack losses. Here's whats being done. — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- J.P. Morgan broadens blockchain settlement network as banks modernize cross-border payments — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- From Bitcoin critics to blockchain believers: The 5 biggest crypto backflips — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Breez launches Bitcoin-to-stablecoin payments across more than 30 blockchains — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Pioneering zk-rollup Loopring closes DEX, citing lack of adoption — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity10 events
- US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Mustang Panda Uses Zoho WorkDrive as Command Channel in Indian Government Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Kernel Flaws, AI Malware Tricks, Turla Backdoor, Infostealers and More — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 236,000 DCloud Uni-App Sites Used in Crypto Scams, Phishing, and Wallet Drainers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Starts With Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Gamaredon Expands Ukraine Attacks with New Malware and Cloud Service Abuse — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft Removes 119 Edge Extensions That Hid Malware in Images and Fonts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Public PoC Released for Critical libssh2 CVE-2026-55200 Client-Side SSH Flaw — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer — 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.