The day in AI and tech
Thursday 2 July 2026
97 events from 35 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 3 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence59 events
- OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), +3 more outlets: who reported what5 outlets
- ‘Doctor’ Donald Trump Posts AI Video Dragging Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert De Niro and More for Suffering From ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Jodie Foster Says Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Seemed Like It Was Made by AI and Written by a Computer: ‘Wasn’t It?’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Wednesday’ & ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Producer Tommy Harper Wants AI-Powered VeYou “To Become The HBO Of Vertical”; Soccer Microdrama ‘Rival Hearts’ Set — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Offers US Government a $42 Billion Slice of Itself: Report — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- RAG-Anything Tutorial: Build a Multimodal Retrieval Pipeline for Text, Tables, Equations, and Images in Colab — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Meet Alibaba’s Page Agent: A JavaScript In-Page GUI Agent That Controls Web Interfaces With Natural Language Through the DOM — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ‘Young Washington’ Director Jon Erwin Breaks Down Film’s Use of AI: Tech Made Production ‘Safer and More Affordable’ (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Midjourney Seeks to Reveal Studios’ Use of AI in High-Stakes Copyright Battle — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI Researchers Got Chatbots to Share Cocaine Recipes Using This One Wild Trick — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Field Notes: How AI is Changing Micro-influencer Content — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- 12 Nurses Say They Are Being Replaced by AI — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Need To Make Sure The US Is The Leader in AI, Not China Says Rep. Smith — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Velotric + Heybike July 4th e-bike sales with up to $828 savings, Samsung Bespoke AI ventless washer/dryer $1,850, Greenworks, more — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- AI astroturfing videos are here — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Weird Al’ Has Seen Your ‘Weird A.I.’ Jokes and He Is Unamused — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Why AI deliverables should be judged by outcomes, not effort — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- How AI Creates Jobs — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Altman’s AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Why proprietary data is your most defensible AI citation asset — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- How AI Impacts Email Personalization in 2026 — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- How Trump’s Anthropic whiplash has helped China — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Line Between Enterprise and Consumer AI Is Gone — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Expands Enterprise Deployment Options for Claude Desktop with New Controls and Cloud Integrations — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Achieving operational excellence with AI — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Compass suit, geo farming, Europe’s AI listings: Inman Top 5 — Inman (opens Inman's report in a new tab)
- Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OTAs Are Betting on Traveler Trust. But the Scramble Is On to Win the Trust of AI Agents — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Shilo bets AI can deliver the 1:1 coaching brokers never get to — Inman (opens Inman's report in a new tab)
- What 1 million keywords reveal about AI’s impact on search — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Edie, the AI Behind Retail’s Answer to ChatGPT — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Teaching AI to run with the turbines — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- AI wants to summarize it all. TripAdvisor’s misleading reviews show AI will also ruin your travel plans — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft fixes bug that removed Copilot buttons in Outlook — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: a startup has a solution for AI’s groupthink problem — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- America at 250: Navigating U.S. AI Policy and the Digital Overhaul of the Textile Industry — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Identity Lifecycle Management Wasn't Built for AI Agents — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Google Data Shows AI Search Users Moved Past Keywords, Your Content Hasn’t via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Can Formula 1 embrace AI without losing its soul? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Should I Block AI Crawlers Or Measure Their Value First? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1 — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI companies want to pick your brain for cash — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Human Intelligence Labs: New Infrastructure for Learning in the Age of AI — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- New AI Agents Pose ‘Existential Threat’ to How Grants Are Awarded — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Luxury Shoppers Are Adopting AI Faster Than Brands Are Adapting, Study Says — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Did this AI anti-drug video make drugs look appealing? — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- How AI can crack open the ‘hidden curriculum’ for neurodivergent students — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI systems devise hypotheses and ways to test them — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI tools can speed up thinking, but evidence still comes from the lab bench — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips10 events
- AI Needs More Data Centers, But ‘Local Resistance’ Stands In the Way — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Blackstone’s QTS ends Virginia data centre project after protests — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- IQM, Europe’s first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- New Power Plants for Data Centers Would Significantly Increase Pennsylvania’s Climate Pollution — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Quantum computing is about to get a lot more real — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Echoes of the Past in Pennsylvania Coal Towns’ Fight Against Data Centers — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Quantum Systems weighs merger with kamikaze drone start-up Stark — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Quantum Systems More Than Doubles Valuation to $8 Billion in New Round — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Data Center Firm Switch Seeks $2 Billion in Funding Round — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Space3 events
- Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Biotech3 events
- FDA Approves Sickle Cell Gene Therapy for Young Kids — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- N 4 -Acetylcytidine enhances synthetic mRNA translation yield and fidelity — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Daily briefing: Editing the epigenome with CRISPR to treat disease — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech2 events
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity17 events
- Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Social Security update 2026: The SSA is making a big change starting in July for America’s 250th anniversary. What it means for citizens — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- Ransomware Groups Turn to Citrix Bleed 2, BYOVD, and Supply Chain Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: AI Compute Hijacking, Apple Email Flaw, BlueHammer Ransomware + 14 Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- US government says it got hacked — again — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ConsentFix and ClickFix: How Microsoft 365 Accounts are Hijacked in 3 Seconds — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ToddyCat-Linked Umbrij Malware Abuses OAuth to Access Gmail via Google API — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cisco finally confirms attackers exploiting Unified CM flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Opera rolls out Paste Protect feature to fight ClickFix attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Taiko reopens bridge after $1.7M exploit, says users made whole — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agent Exploits Langflow RCE to Automate Database Ransomware Attack — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Alleged Scattered Spider hacker extradited to the United States — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- FortiBleed Credential Theft Linked to INC and Lynx Ransomware Operations — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New ChocoPoC RAT Targets Vulnerability Researchers via Fake PoC Exploit Repos — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-45659 Added to CISA KEV After Active Exploitation — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Medtronic notifies customers impacted by ShinyHunters data breach — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (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.