The day in AI and tech
Monday 20 July 2026
102 events from 35 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence59 events
- The AI game-dev boom has a dark side: fewer jobs for the people starting out — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Google Is AI Mode’s No. 2 Cited Domain, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA’s new AI can detect deepfake videos in just 22 milliseconds — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- ONEXPLAYER’s new handheld packs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388 and liquid cooling at an eye-watering price — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- This Startup Is Using AI to Bring Flat Lay Fashion to Life — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Compass moves from AI content creation to AI task execution in Home Platform — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Have Artists Reached Their Breaking Point With AI? — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Expedia’s AI Timeline Runs Through Its Talent Strategy — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Hidden Cost of Using AI at Work: You May Be Training Yourself to Be Average — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model guardrails stymied its defense — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Samsung’s secret AI chip could finally cool down Exynos phones — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- PTC Launches AI Initiative with Onshape Labs — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe’s Project Indigo camera app can now edit and critique your photos with AI — 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)
- Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- This new, Beijing-based AI model is causing such a stir that subscriptions are now on hold — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How Zillow agent rankings shape AI recommendations — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Utopai Studios Producing AI-Assisted Animated Movie ‘The Most Serious Fart’ by ‘Not Another Teen Movie’ Writer (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- An AI SOC Evaluation Guide for Security Leaders — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- A practical guide to AI-driven personalized search — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Salesforce VP on the leaky AI pipeline: why cheaper tokens won’t fix enterprise AI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- As the battle for AI supremacy intensifies, Trump White House reportedly contemplates a ban on Chinese models — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Answers About Your Locations Are Often Wrong – Check Before Customers Do via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI visibility is a topic-level game: A study of 50,000 brands in ChatGPT [Study] — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Short Bets Against US Equities Hit Record as AI Risks Mount — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Apple’s $4.9 Trillion Victory Flips the Entire AI Narrative — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- A new AI model wants self-driving cars to think before they swerve — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Big Tech Needs to Prove that AI Spending Is Going Somewhere — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Is China replacing the U.S. as the world’s AI touchpoint thanks to Kimi K3? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Venice Critics’ Week Lineup: Shalini Adnani’s Family Drama ‘Our Share of Sand,’ AI-Assisted Colombian Doc ‘The End of Times’ and More — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI killed the tool behind this AI film. Its director says Hollywood is only getting started — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 1,273 designers tell all: Their rates, real pay, and how they really feel about AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Agentic commerce is coming—and the battle to build its infrastructure is on — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Creator of Claude Code on the Hottest Piece of Software in the World — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software (Podcast) — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- World's Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Banning AI Models Doesn’t Add Up to a Policy — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- These 3 Perplexity power-user techniques make AI search more useful — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Training AI models might be the chance for a workplace power play — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips7 events
- Oracle could face $7bn collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Data Centers Driving Up Electric Bills Draw Congressional Attention — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Quantum Light Brings Quantum Dot Pigments to Denim — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Texarkana Homeowners Protest New 500-Acre Data Center Over Noise and Water-Use Concerns — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- BlackRock Eyes More Than $12 Billion Debt for Texas Data Center — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Hut 8 surges on $9.8 billion AI data-center lease, lifting compute sector — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 6 details leak, here's what to expect — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy6 events
- Sony Dates Bad Robot’s JT Mollner Horror Pic ‘Skeletons’ Starring Brie Larson For Summer 2027 — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ got me a speeding ticket, and Tesla killed the fix — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Electric air taxis go to war — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla remote operator crashed a ‘Robotaxi’ in Houston, NHTSA data shows — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Firefighters Had to Move a Waymo Themselves After It Blocked an Emergency Call — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- EngineAI's 1.73-Meter T800 Robot Is the Fighting Machine Joining the World's First Humanoid Combat League — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
- The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
- Daily briefing: CRISPR gets an AI-designed upgrade — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Dramatic Results Seen With Gene Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech2 events
Blockchain Tech3 events
- Cardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted Upgrade — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Strategy's Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin's BIP-110 — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Cardano activates van Rossem hard fork, paving way for Leios — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity21 events
- Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- New HollowGraph malware uses Microsoft Graph for stealthy C2 comms — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- HollowGraph Malware Hides C2 and Stolen Files in Microsoft 365 Events Dated 2050 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: WordPress RCE, SonicWall 0-Days, AI Service Attacks, SharePoint 0-Day and More — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Mythos Didn't Break Your Security Program. Your Exposure Window Could. — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ‘Harvest now, decrypt later’: Hackers are stealing data they can’t even read yet—banking on quantum computers to crack it later — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Windows KB5121767 OOB update fixes shutdowns on some Dell PCs — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New X phishing scam uses fake login alerts to steal your account — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Allbridge pauses cross-chain bridge after $1.65M exploit — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
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