The day in AI and tech
Wednesday 15 July 2026
107 events from 37 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 Intelligence64 events
- xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Hate editing videos? This new AI app turns your camera roll into ready-to-post reels — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents — VentureBeat (opens VentureBeat's report in a new tab)
- Google Brings Calendar To Personal Intelligence In AI Mode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- xAI sues user for exploiting AI tool to sexualise minors — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Doctored data sets could trick AI agents — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Bonsai: The First 27B AI Model That Fits on Your Phone — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Dan Ives and Trump family-linked securities group launch AI bank, because why not? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI avatars are reshaping society in China — the law is trying to catch up — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines draws from Chinese rivals in debut AI model — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Calls Turn Into Leads More Often: Invoca Report via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- What building Shippy taught us about building agents — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t. — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Google AI Mode ads reach nearly 30% of queries: Study — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The Human Edge: What AI Still Can’t Do in SEO — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s fight with Apple is really about Silicon Valley’s war for talent — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google is AI Mode’s No. 2 most-cited domain: Report — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Death Threats, Doxxing and AI: How Animator Jorge Gutiérrez Killed His Own Show in 36 Hours (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Apple Intelligence finally gets the green light from Chinese authorities — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Where AI agents get stuck on your site — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Study finds that Google's AI features create "unacceptable risks" for children — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- What If AI Doesn’t Fix Travel’s Labor Problem? — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- South Korea wants to give every citizen free, unlimited access to its own AI chatbot — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why Brand Positioning Is Now an AI Search Variable — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- China approves Apple Intelligence for iPhones, with Alibaba, Baidu emerging as partners — 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)
- Is your AI really working? Why productivity isn’t the same as progress — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Falling in love with a chatbot is now off limits for kids in China — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Refusing Samsung Health AI training will not wipe your health history after all — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- UK Fraud Review Calls for Judge Training on Crypto Laundering, AI Scams — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- You haven’t fixed your AI problem — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI-Native ‘Lost Canon’ Brings Raindance, CapCut and Moonmax Together for 10-Film Series — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- GA4’s AI Assistant Channel Undercounts Your AI Traffic: How To Build One That Doesn’t — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How to do AI search optimization for local businesses — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Will AI really consume more electricity than the US produces? — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI schools are multiplying, but the promise of AI tutoring is complicated — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Want experts in 10 years? Keep AI away from your beginners today — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- What’s the difference between artificial intelligence and synthetic intelligence —and why does it matter? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- You no longer need Willow’s Pro plan for unlimited AI dictation on your iPhone — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Google Releases LiteRT.js: A JavaScript Binding of LiteRT That Runs .tflite Models in Browsers via WebGPU — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI is doing the work. Are your leaders still doing the thinking? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The great AI layoff is turning into the great AI rehire — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Mitsubishi takes over $7.5 billion in U.S. natural gas fields from Aethon, deepening Japanese bet on LNG and the AI boom — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips9 events
- The Optimistic Case for the Hochul Data Center Pause — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ‘More bad news’ for people struggling with energy bills: AI data centers are driving costs even higher — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Optical filter sorts light by its ‘quantum statistics’ — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- This memoir is a personal and moving journey through the quantum world — New Scientist (opens New Scientist's report in a new tab)Read on New Scientist (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- The data center backlash is spreading across the country — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ASML is scrambling to build more capacity after blockbuster beat-and-raise quarter — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- Nebraska wants data centers to come clean about water usage — Grist (opens Grist's report in a new tab)Read on Grist (opens in a new tab)
- ASML raises forecasts as AI boom drives chipmaking demand — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy3 events
- He sold his last company to Palantir. Now he’s betting $32 million that robots can fix construction’s labor crisis — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Bite my shiny metal ass! TV’s all-time top robots — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- This Robot Was Designed to Look Like Furniture. That Could Be Its Killer Advantage — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
Space5 events
- Astronauts Obtain First X-Rays in Space — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- A most improbable astronaut just went to space — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Starlink’s V5 dish is now available — here’s how it compares — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- NASA's Voyager 1 Only Has Two Active Science Instruments Left After Latest System Shutdown — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech3 events
- Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Blue LEDs made from perovskite material shine bright thanks to hydrogen bonds — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Wearables & XR2 events
- Dumbphones, Smart Glasses, and More Tech Trends That Are Shaping the Way We Travel — Condé Nast Traveler (opens Condé Nast Traveler's report in a new tab)Read on Condé Nast Traveler (opens in a new tab)
- You can paint this wearable on your skin like a tattoo to monitor your heart and brain activity — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity21 events
- Suno Got Hacked — Pitchfork (opens Pitchfork's report in a new tab)Read on Pitchfork (opens in a new tab)
- TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ostium pauses trading as security firms report multimillion-dollar oracle exploit — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AsyncAPI npm packages infected with credential-stealing malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Ostium suffers $18 million exploit as oracle attack wave continues to hit DeFi — 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)
- We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Russian hackers keep finding their way into critical networks through neglected routers — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)
- New Webinar: Closing the Approval Gap in AI-Era Ad Tech — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cursor Flaw Lets Malicious Cloned Repositories Trigger Windows Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Patient records stolen in cyber-attack on Australian healthcare provider — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked. — Grist (opens Grist's report in a new tab)Read on Grist (opens in a new tab)
- CISA warns admins to patch actively exploited SharePoint flaws — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Compromised AsyncAPI npm Packages Deliver Multi-Stage Botnet Malware — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft: Some Dell PCs shut down after recent Windows updates — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- US charges alleged operators of Russian bulletproof hosting service — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Exploited, One Could Enable Admin Commands — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
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