The day in AI and tech
Saturday 18 July 2026
31 events from 16 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence19 events
- ‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini says we’re headed for universal basic income or ‘some form of socialism’ as AI revolutionizes work—He calls that optimistic — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Google has to play fair with AI rivals on Android, and that could be good news for your wallet — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Android lockscreen bypass allows Gemini to send SMS without verification — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Apple is finally removing AI apps that can digitally undress anyone — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ANU accused of ‘hysterical’ response to students using AI to cheat as unis scramble to ‘secure’ assessments — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Samsung’s Freestyle+ AI Smart Projector turns any wall into your next movie screen — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- GPT-5.6 vs Fable 5 Review: Which One You Pick Depends on These Factors — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- A Chinese Pink Floyd fan is giving Claude and Chat their own DeepSeek moment — an AI model just as good and half the price — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Not Done Yet Refunding Tariffs or Realizing AI’s Promise — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Every app on my phone has decided I need AI, and none of them bothered to ask — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Indeed chief economist: Aging Baby Boomers are America’s real labor problem, not AI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Google Puts A Number On AI Search Clicks, Without The Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- New York governor orders first statewide data center moratorium — Grist (opens Grist's report in a new tab)Read on Grist (opens in a new tab)
- ICE, datacenters, voter suppression: key issues expected to draw thousands in US to protests — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Space4 events
- Space Force triples launch contract ceiling amid rising demand — SpaceNews (opens SpaceNews's report in a new tab)Read on SpaceNews (opens in a new tab)
- Pentagon awards $7.1 million to expand U.S. production of cover glass for satellites — SpaceNews (opens SpaceNews's report in a new tab)Read on SpaceNews (opens in a new tab)
- India achieves milestone with launch of first private-sector orbital rocket — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- NASA terminates Draper lunar lander mission — SpaceNews (opens SpaceNews's report in a new tab)Read on SpaceNews (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity4 events
- Update now: 7-Zip fixes RCE flaw exploitable with malicious archives — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft warns of surge in ACR Stealer attacks on customers — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Kaspersky identifies malware framework targeting crypto investors — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Cybercriminals are cashing in on the World Cup by selling stolen streaming accounts — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (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.