The day in AI and tech
Thursday 23 July 2026
113 events from 32 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 2 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence73 events
- Trump expands voluntary pledge to blunt AI-driven utility bill surges — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agent — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Black Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3 AI: Ditches Stills for Video—And Robot Hands — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini sent $10M in Bitcoin to Trump PAC after joint motion with CFTC — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese AI models will slash adoption costs, says Singapore’s GIC — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Call us whatever the hell you want’: Mark Zuckerberg just launched an AI optimism blitz using nostalgia to sell Meta’s AI future amid backlash — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- China Is AI-Maxxing — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI Search is Working. How to Prove It With Real Tests. via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The problem with AI becoming our easiest colleague to talk to — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Musk says frontier AI models should face peer review from rival labs before release, with the government only stepping in as a last resort — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Stay visible in the era of AI search — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AI Browsers Are Backward Because Agents Never Needed The Visual Layer via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Rodland Private Members looks to close AI gap for independent brokerages — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Google says AI Max unlocks billions of new monetizable searches — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Even AI is in love with Japan right now — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 22 AI risks leaders underestimate — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI labs have a trust problem, and the Hugging Face hack just proved it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How do we remain human while using AI? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI doesn’t solve creativity — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Coinbase's corporate customers can now accept payments from AI agents — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Customers prefer AI chatbots to humans’ says British Gas boss as 1,300 call centre staff axed — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- BTC treasury firm Empery Digital invests $20M in AI data center developer Cardinal Data Power — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT gains access to Yelp reviews, ratings, and photos — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Colman Domingo Rips Elon Musk’s Plan for AI ‘The Odyssey’ Movie: ‘It’ll Be ‘Whiter Than Christmas at Cracker Barrel’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ERA Key Realty Services launches redesigned website AI upgrades — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- An OpenAI model went rogue on the internet and stole test answers — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon is redesigning Prime Video with more AI, but will it fix what frustrates viewers? — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Google closes in on another billion user product with Gemini — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- AI-redesigned starting points and outcomes enhance protein evolution — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- How to prepare for Google’s DSA sunset and move to AI Max — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI Max spotted in Google Standard Shopping campaigns — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- 54% of Travelers Distrust Your AI Recommendations — Now What? — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- The sci-fi movie that imagines AI isn’t so dystopian after all — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Flair says AI improved lead conversion in West Capital Lending deployment — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Monday.com layoffs: Hundreds of jobs slashed as work platform proclaims its embrace of ‘the new AI era’ — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI coding company Cursor, soon to be acquired by SpaceX, expands its CFO council — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Google Went ‘Not Provided’ In 2011 And Blinded Us, ChatGPT Just Shipped Its Version via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Why the AI “friction phase” is a sign you’re doing it right — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Bernstein says Bitcoin mining deals necessary for AI power crunch — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- This AI tool promises a 'second pair of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit? — NPR (opens NPR's report in a new tab)Read on NPR (opens in a new tab)
- This AI tool promises a 'second sight of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit? — NPR (opens NPR's report in a new tab)Read on NPR (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Has Entered the Swag Chat—Here’s What Tech Bro Merch Really Signals — Vogue (opens Vogue's report in a new tab)Read on Vogue (opens in a new tab)
- Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Framework Desktop packs Ryzen AI Max, up to 192GB of RAM, and local AI into a mini PC — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Pichai Says Google Needs Gemini 4 To Compete At The Frontier via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- This anti-AI font was made with AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Where OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and other AI giants stand on regulation — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI is becoming the shoulder we cry on, and that worries me — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- The robot byline is quietly disappearing — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang made his $172 billion fortune on AI chips. His family’s $75 million gift to Vanderbilt argues art decides what technology is for — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Students Using AI to Write Financial Aid Appeals — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI, China, ‘dark factories’ and the future of the US auto industry — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Launching Health in ChatGPT — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips9 events
- Wellington Is Passing on Data-Center Debt Deals on Property Value Concerns — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Trump says nearly 200 firms have signed pledge to protect Americans from costs arising from datacenters — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia is sending GPUs to the Moon — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Qualcomm is allegedly launching a new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC this year — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Lenovo launches new LOQ 17 gaming laptop with RTX 5070 12GB GPU — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Everyone hates massive data centers. This $18 billion CEO has a better way to get you the AI compute you need — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Imaging of nanoscale polar textures in quantum paraelectric SrTiO 3 — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla’s robotaxi promises are clashing with reality — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla’s robotaxis are moving in reverse — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ‘The Wild Robot’ VFX Studio STIM Sets Canary Islands Operation, Planning to Create More Than 100 Jobs — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla still has no real plan for Hardware 3 owners promised FSD — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity22 events
- Robinhood CEO’s X account hacked in apparent memecoin scam — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy in group pledging $15 million to prepare Bitcoin for quantum threats — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- New Dolphin X malware uses AI to rank high-value targets — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Australian energy provider Origin says data breach exposes client data — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers abuse Notepad++ plugins to stealthily install malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Fears of AI-driven DeFi hack epidemic overstated for now — but not for long — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Chaos Ransomware Uses msaRAT to Route C2 Traffic Through Headless Chrome and Edge — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Weaponize GitHub Actions Runners to Target cPanel and WHM Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Arbitrum Perp DEX AFX Trade Drained of $24M, Offers Hacker 30% to Return It — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- New msaRAT malware uses Chrome, Edge browsers to route C2 traffic — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Check Point warns of SmartConsole zero-day exploited in attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AFX Protocol reportedly loses $24M in bridge exploit — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
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