The day in AI and tech
Sunday 19 July 2026
36 events from 13 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence23 events
- Hidden prompts can secretly rewrite an AI’s memory, and researchers say that’s a serious problem — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Netflix Reveals the Staggering Price of Its AI Deal With Ben Affleck — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- This experiment shows how easy it is to poison an open-weight AI model for under $100 — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Your AI Strategy May Be Missing Much Bigger Opportunities. Here’s How to Know — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Engineered Serendipity’: OpenAI’s Hottest Founder Event Doesn’t Involve Pitching, Panels, or Happy Hours — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- This Android lock screen bug lets anyone text using Gemini without knowing your PIN — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI is destroying the internet. Math is our only hope. — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- America’s math and reading scores tanked after schools ditched textbooks for screens—and AI could worsen the brain rot — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- How To Measure AI Search Visibility via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Government use of automated AI decision-making to be curbed under new Australian rules — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Thinking Machines is coming for Anthropic’s intellectual vibe — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Strong economies, strongman leaders: how China (and America’s) AI boom could create a new class of kowtowing elites — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- 10 Open-Source No-Code AI Platforms for Building LLM Apps, RAG Systems, and AI Agents — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Fine-Tuning Qwen3 with LoRA Using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: A Complete Single-GPU Google Colab Workflow Tutorial — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- ‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Sued For Claiming Utah Data Center Opposition Has Ties to China — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers as 70% of Americans say not in my backyard — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Space1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech2 events
- Saylor turns up heat with ‘110 reasons’ why BIP-110 is a bad idea — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea' — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity5 events
- Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers Just Pulled Off Every Food Manufacturer’s Worst Nightmare. Now Coca-Cola’s $4-Billion Dairy Brand Is Shut Down — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers abuse ViPNet software to target Russian govt agencies — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access — 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.