The day in AI and tech
Friday 24 July 2026
109 events from 30 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 Intelligence73 events
- Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack? — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Moody's says 'unprecedented' AI spending threatens credit quality of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and others — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Altana Acquires Customs Automation Startup Cervo AI — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Here’s how Meta decides who to lay off—and it claims to not use AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Ads adds conversion bidding, geo exclusions and bulk campaign tools — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- White House rolls out AI funding — and signals a new era for US science — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- US tech groups cut 140,000 jobs despite AI spending boom — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang has a message about AI doomerism for his fellow tech leaders — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Emergency Brand Audit: What AI Says About Your Locations via @sejournal, @lorenbaker — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Rogue OpenAI agents forced the ‘AI Kill Switch’ bill. Here’s what it would do — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google Ads Editor 2.13 brings AI Max support to Shopping campaigns — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Overviews YouTube Gap: The Platform Your Team Skipped For 20 Years via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI gets sued over ChatGPT medical advice gone wrong — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Claude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the Price — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s head of economics just explained why Anthropic’s CEO was wrong about a white-collar bloodbath — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang just used his first ever X post to warn the AI industry not to make the mistake that software narrowly avoided in the 1980s — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The AI boom’s hidden electricity bill — and why you’re paying it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia, Microsoft lead call for open-weight AI models after Kimi — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Is AI the End of Cheap Tech? — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic launches Opus 5 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 for both AI coding and general office work — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia, Meta, and Microsoft Tell Washington: Don't Kill Open-Source AI — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Her Private Hell’ Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Ignoring Critics, Why the Government Must Regulate AI and Planning His Third Film With Ryan Gosling — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Ubersuggest Is Now Inside ChatGPT. Here’s What It Does — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla quietly closes its secret ~$2 billion AI hardware deal — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Carlton Cuse On How Sports Rights Fights Are Hurting Scripted, Fair Residuals, AI & Netflix Series ‘The Secret Of Secrets’ — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia and Palantir urge US not to ban ‘open’ AI models after China scare — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Crypto Biz: Is the AI-to-crypto rotation underway? — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- A hyperlocal news page falls victim to Facebook’s AI — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star — 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)
- Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI search can’t verify your business — here’s how to fix it — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Sam Altman-backed World Network secures $52.5 million in fresh funding to fight online AI deepfakes — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- AI Raises New Questions About Fashion Design Ownership and Copyright — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Slopsquatting, Phantom Domains, and HalluSquatting Are the Same AI Attack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI helps Stanford scientists discover “natural Ozempic” without the usual side effects — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Humans actually prefer talking to an AI than a support person, says gas giant as it cuts jobs — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Roomvu launches AI-powered recruiting content for brokerages — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Skift Brings Data + AI Summit to Europe for the First Time — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Polish Fashion Brand Partners With AI Firm to Create 3D Digital Twins For Products — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- AI success depends on alignment — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Seeing AI Agents Is Not Enough. Security Teams Must Enforce What They Can Do — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Neo raises $100 million to hunt the zombie AI agents haunting your company — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- NYU Stern pricing expert: There’s a hidden ‘AI tax’ hitting Apple, Dell — and your next phone — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Your client just asked if they show up in ChatGPT. Now what? by AgencyAnalytics — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- This is the impact that AI will have on entry-level work and development — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI doesn’t end scarcity. It relocates it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini Spark is no longer restricted to Google’s priciest Ultra tier — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Can the U.S. government legally gatekeep global access to AI models? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- A Florida pastor asked ChatGPT if he was okay. It nearly got him killed. — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- What solopreneurs should refuse to hand over to AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI makes anyone visible. Authority is the new scarcity. — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Fumbling Toward an AI Policy — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- South Korea’s cash-rich winners of AI boom go on US buying spree — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT can now connect to your Apple Health data to give more personalized health answers — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips7 events
- Musk says Tesla to ‘open source’ Model S and X, but prior release makes us skeptical — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- A quantum roadmap would push Bitcoin much higher: Charles Edwards — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- How China is powering new data centers with clean energy — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Intel just pulled its 14A production schedule forward by a year — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Meet SLB: The $70 billion oil services giant poised to cash in on AI data centers and the post-Strait of Hormuz oil exploration boom — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Meta faces higher borrowing costs in latest $12bn data centre financing — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy6 events
- Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo explores split with Uber as robotaxi tensions deepen — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla Now Has Nearly 1.5 Million FSD Subscribers — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Robot snakes searched for Venezuela earthquake survivors in collapsed buildings — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Aurora's New Autonomous Truck Hardware Is Designed To Last One Million Miles — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Scientists made robots curious like toddlers, and it helped them learn language twice as fast — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Space5 events
- SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure — 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)
- Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Space is becoming Bezos and Musk’s next data center site, and we have every reason to worry — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR2 events
- After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity14 events
- OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- BlueNoroff Zoom Phishing Kit Profiles Crypto Wallets Before Malware Delivery — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Chick-fil-A data breach affects more than 13,000 customers — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Morning Minute: Bitcoin's New $15M Quantum Defense Fund — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft's Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Man gets six years for hacking 750 women's Snapchat accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Golden Chickens Resurfaces With Four New Malware Families and Modular Implants — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Clop ransomware targets Windchill, FlexPLM in data theft attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Kimi K3 Agents Found Redis Zero-Days and Built RCE Exploit, Researchers Say — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (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.