The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 14 July 2026
137 events from 38 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 4 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence84 events
- OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy” — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Over 95% of Coinbase’s code is now written with AI — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- China Wants to Regulate AI Companions — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s first hardware product sounds more like a companion than a speaker — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- George Lucas Says AI Makes Filmmaking ‘Easier’ and ‘There’s Nothing You Can Do About It,’ Criticizes Hollywood for Giving Fans Too Much Power — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI models: one country’s fears become everyone’s constraint — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan has slashed 40% of jobs in some departments, thanks to AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Mistral Vibe for Code vs Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex: Four Agents Scored on One Scaffold-to-PR Task — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Can AI audiobooks narrate better than humans? This study says many listeners think so — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- DeepMind CEO Says AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The secrets of an unheralded AI success story — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Steps Up Enterprise AI Ambitions with Muse Spark Launch — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Spotify’s new conversational AI can play tracks you request and answer your music questions — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The AI boom drove China’s 27% export jump in June as AI and the Iran war reshape global trade — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Gemini can make sense of the world around you, but don’t let it observe your children just yet — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- My AI Sent 10,000 Emails — By Mistake — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Advertising isn’t the answer to Anthropic’s hard questions — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Wall Of Entertainment Partners With AI Platform For Tubi’s ‘Substitute Teacher’ & ‘House Rules’ — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Moving to Internally Developed AI Models in Office Apps — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads could miss $100 billion revenue target: Report — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Wikipedia blackout could hurt how AI engines like ChatGPT understand crypto — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Google AI Overviews now lets you create image — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab), Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI, Defense Spending Fuel the Rush to Mine Minerals, Report Says — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Goldman economist offers a reality check on AI adoption: it took 15 years for computers to really show up in the data — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT is back in WhatsApp in Europe thanks to the European Commission — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini in Chrome reaches an important new market — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI quietly adds Kalshi World Cup odds to ChatGPT: Report — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- D-topia review – cosy sci-fi mystery takes aim at AI — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- AI-Generated ‘Odyssey’ Movie Adaptation Coming From ‘Dreams of Violets’ Director — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Surprise: Many People Prefer AI Audiobooks, New Study Finds — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- I let Gemini take care of my houseplants, and they’ve never looked better — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Which ‘AI scientist’ suits your lab? A guide for the perplexed — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- How AI search gives old negative content new life — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Scaled AI Content Often Fails & Google’s Crawl Economics Explain Why via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Samsung Health threatens to delete your data if you opt out of AI training — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- X is teaching its AI algorithm something social networks once understood — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- 5 ways to use AI to sharpen your thinking — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Samsung teases the next Galaxy Watch and its AI-powered "Health Companion" — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Irani Group Launches In-House AI Lab — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT’s hiking advice left two hikers stranded on a mountain in Poland — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- AI has not triggered DeFi ‘hackpocalypse,’ Dragonfly partner says — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How to manage AI investments in the agentic era — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- This designer is using AI to make clothing with zero fabric waste — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Surviving The Impression Squeeze: How Agentic Commerce Is Changing Google Ads In 2026 via @sejournal, @siliconvallaeys — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Grok Build Uploads Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Reads — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Why governing AI loops requires a corporate world model — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- From AI curiosity to operational transformation: Michael Vandi on how mortgage lending’s relationship with AI is evolving — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Who will win the 2026 FIFA World Cup? Here’s what AI predicts — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- To AI-Proof Lawyers, Some Law Schools Restrict Technology — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Workflow Before Technology: Why mortgage transformation starts with governance, not AI — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic confirms Claude acts differently depending on your language and which model you pick — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Ed Husic tells Labor to get tougher on AI companies as letting them self-regulate ‘doomed to fail’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Nous Research Secures a Massive $75M USD to Scale Its Hermes AI Agent — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- SoftBank’s Son ridicules AI critics for ‘spitting upwards’ — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Australia Sees No Mass Layoffs From AI Just Yet — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI and the new Mechanical Turk — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How data science teams use ChatGPT Work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- How sales teams use ChatGPT Work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips11 events
- New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), +3 more outlets: who reported what5 outlets
- New York imposes landmark one-year ban on large data centres — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Data centers boost jobs 4% in cities and rural economies barely feel a dent, study shows — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- New York Just Banned Large Data Centers—5 Numbers Explain Why the Backlash Is Spreading Nationwide — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Hyperscale’ data centers get put on pause in New York in a historic move — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- SLB, Liberty Energy to Sell Power and Parts to Data Centers — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- An AI Data Center at the Edge of the Everglades Heads to a Decisive Vote — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Trillion Dollar Chip Rout Trains Spotlight on TSMC and ASML Results — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The Company Behind TikTok Could Get Into The Autonomous Car Race: Report — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Waymo’s July 4 chaos in San Francisco raises new questions about how robotaxis can work at scale — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Mistral AI Releases Robostral Navigate: An 8B Model Enabling Robots to Navigate Complex Environments Using a Single RGB Camera — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone” — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Space8 events
- Starlink V5 is here, and it’s lighter, smarter, and far more efficient — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Frontier joins the Starlink club with high-speed in-flight internet — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- U.S.-Russia space crew arrives at the ISS despite bitter space race past — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- US-Russian crew launches on mission to space station — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Frontier Airlines to Add Starlink, Catching Up to Premium Airlines — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab), The Points Guy (opens The Points Guy's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Why is a satellite like a race car? Apex and Toyota’s racing division have an answer — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Concorde dream is within reach. NASA X-59 just has to silence the supersonic boom — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech3 events
- Ethereum Foundation spinout EthSystems targets banks with blockchain privacy technology — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Study of 85 Crypto Wallet Extensions Finds Address Leaks and Cross-Site Tracking Risks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Bitcoin's BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity23 events
- Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- SonicWall warns of SMA1000 flaws exploited in zero-day attacks, patch now — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Spanish Police take down €140 million cyber fraud ring, arrest four — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Nearly 300 GitHub repos pose as legit software to push malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5099539 extended security update — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- SAP Patches CVSS 9.9 NetWeaver ABAP Flaw That Could Expose or Modify Data — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Windows 11 KB5101650 & KB5099414 cumulative updates released — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Researchers Say Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Rogue Extensions Trigger Gmail Reads — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cybersecurity Researchers Identify First Fully Autonomous AI-Driven Ransomware Attack — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- LabubaRAT Masquerades as NVIDIA Software to Control Windows Hosts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Progress confirms ShareFile zero-day flaw behind Storage Zone shutdown — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- LastPass, Bitwarden users targeted with fake security alerts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- You Don't Have to Run an Exploit to Know If You're Vulnerable — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- RabbitMQ Flaws Could Leak OAuth Secrets and Expose Cross-Tenant Queue Metadata — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft Entra ID gets passkeys default authentication starting September — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New phishing kits target Microsoft 365 accounts, evade MFA — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- 11 Old Microsoft-Signed Linux UEFI Shims Could Let Attackers Bypass Secure Boot — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SAP warns of critical flaws in NetWeaver and Commerce Cloud — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- How Pentera Turns AI Security Workflows into Validation Engines — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- OAuth Client ID Spoofing Lets Attackers Validate Stolen Microsoft Entra Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- US sanctions VPN, malware providers for enabling ransomware attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet — 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.