The day in AI and tech
Friday 17 July 2026
87 events from 29 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 Intelligence53 events
- Netflix Paid $587 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Startup InterPositive — 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
- Google’s AI just recreated the best goal ever by Pele that was never actually filmed — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Build an Agentic Event Venue Operator with MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Build an Agentic Event Venue Operator with MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Zyphra Releases ZUNA1.1: An Apache 2.0 EEG Foundation Model With Variable-Length Inputs From 0.5 To 30 Seconds — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Bill to Block AI Prior Authorization in Medicare Fails in Senate — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Faces Class Action Over Books Used To Train Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI patches ChatGPT desktop after user backlash over its recent redesign — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Businesses are experimenting with cheaper Chinese AI models as U.S. rivals get more expensive — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s CFO: 4 questions that reveal if your AI spend is paying off — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Meta and Anthropic in talks for up to $10bn data centre deal — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- China’s Kimi K3 Is Out—And Beats Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol on Key Benchmarks — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Why Aaron Kirman is betting on AI, crypto and new development — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Top Stories roll out in Google AI Overviews — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Why the Moonshot Moment May Not Be a DeepSeek Moment — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key — New Scientist (opens New Scientist's report in a new tab)Read on New Scientist (opens in a new tab)
- Google says AI Search features send billions of clicks to websites each week — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI is turning the Smithsonian into an illuminated fever dream — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and 🤗 Diffusers — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Xi offers AI olive branch to the world, calling for ‘symphony of global cooperation’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it’s not in Silicon Valley — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- China’s Xi Jinping launches new AI alliance: What is it? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Apple Upgraded to Buy by HSBC on Agentic AI, Hardware Pipeline — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Neglected Quant Safety Trade Makes a Comeback as AI Risks Rise — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- IBM’s Warning Is a ‘Hammer’ Slamming Down on Tech’s AI Outsiders — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Forget AI training data. This startup learned from slime mold — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- How to measure AI share of voice using Semrush — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- A scorecard for the AI age — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Siri is finally good, but AI assistants still have miles to go — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Netflix says it has used AI in over 300 titles and there’s no stopping it now — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- 8 ways you definitely shouldn’t use AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s next Gemini upgrade might not arrive as soon as expected — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- New open-weight AI from China is toppling the best of OpenAI and Claude Fable — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini could finally let you choose how friendly it sounds — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Bollywood Star Jacqueline Fernandez Launches AI Avatar (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- China’s Xi says AI ‘should not be a solo performance by a single country’ — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Roblox’s AI Build tool wants to make game development as easy as texting — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- AI isn’t destroying entry-level jobs. It’s changing them — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Xi Jinping spearheads China’s AI push — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Moonshot’s Kimi K3 pushes Chinese AI into Fable-level territory — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Netflix used AI to produce 17 minutes of a documentary ‘twice as fast and at half the cost’—as streaming competition drives up content spending to $20 billion — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips4 events
- The AI boom is increasingly built on debt, but investor demand is plunging just as hyperscalers ramp up their bond blitz — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Hyperscalers Are Dragging Down Bond Gauges Across Global Markets — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- After Months of Debate, Virginia Fails to Pass Data Center Clean Energy Requirements — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Kevin O’Leary claimed opposition to his Utah data center was fueled by Chinese money. Now he and Fox News are being sued for defamation — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- Ann Droid review – Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston’s fresh, funny robot comedy is just wonderful — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon’s Zoox recalls self-driving vehicles amid emergency response issues — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Space5 events
- Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Why do astronauts’ bodies waste away? Space-station study points to mitochondria — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity19 events
- New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Abbott Laboratories probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- A cyberattack has disrupted one of America’s biggest milk brands. Should shoppers be worried? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Ernst & Young discloses data breach after support system hack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI is set to completely transform cybersecurity — here’s how researchers must prepare — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Inside the Search for "Clean" Residential Proxies for Carding — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- This new Mac malware won’t let you use your computer until you surrender your password — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- UK sentences 2 hackers tied to $115M crypto ransom scheme — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- New Windows LegacyHive zero-day gives hackers admin privileges — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix Lures to Steal Browser Tokens and Microsoft 365 Files — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- MacOS malware hijacks Telegram sessions, targets crypto wallets: SlowMist — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- New GoSerpent Malware Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Diplomats for Espionage — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA urges immediate action on actively exploited Fortinet flaws — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA Adds Exploited SharePoint RCE Zero-Day CVE-2026-58644 to KEV — 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.