The day in AI and tech
Saturday 25 July 2026
52 events from 20 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence23 events
- SK chair says Anthropic asked for supplies to make its own chips — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Charging AI Bots Decides Which Agents Can Still Cite You via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI safety experts say OpenAI’s rogue models may mean the company has already blown past its own internal red lines — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- DeepSeek said to tell backers of funding pause after viral posts — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Google Flow Music Spaces is becoming an all-in-one AI music studio — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- What Is an AI Kill Switch and Why Do US Lawmakers Want One? — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google Data Compares Gemini & AI Mode Use Against Daily Life via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- A Hims cofounder fired his entire marketing team for AI. Now his 24/7 online vet service is growing 20% a month — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s rogue AI hack was just the beginning, Hugging Face warns — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The Messi Test and how the Spaniards messed with it: what the World Cup final taught me about the Jobs AI can’t touch — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- What it’s like to be a founder of the most high-stakes startup ever, OpenAI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Charting the Global Economy: Growth Picks Up, AI Boom Continues — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Building Self-Evolving AI Agents with OpenSpace Using Skills, MCP, Lineage, and Low-Cost Reuse — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI surveillance is destroying the workplace — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI may finally make ‘women’s work’ valuable. But will women benefit? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI’s quest for morality — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Guillermo Del Toro Assures “No Godd*mn AI” Used In ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ 3D Re-Release — Comic-Con — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Guillermo del Toro said ‘Absolutely No Goddamn AI’ in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ 3D Re-Release: ‘We’re Protecting a Lineage of Art’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips10 events
- Qualcomm is set to ratchet up chip prices in September, and your next gadget upgrade could bear the brunt — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Mega datacentre planned for outer Melbourne will be almost six times the size of Chadstone shopping centre — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Top Democrat says Trump administration is worsening chip shortage — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Open Dreamer: A JAX/Flax Reproduction of the Dreamer 4 World Model Pipeline, With the Full Training Recipe Published — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Designing High-Performance GPU Kernels with TileLang: Tensor-Core GEMM, Fused Softmax, FlashAttention, and Autotuning — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- How do quantum computers work? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Insulator-free topological photonic multi-lane highways — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Datalab’s Marker 2 vs MinerU, Docling and LiteParse: 76.0 on olmOCR-bench at 5× MinerU’s Throughput — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- Waymo is 2/3 safer than a human driver, says IIHS – with some caveats — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Inside On’s tech lab, where robots build running shoes in 3 minutes and can eliminate up to 300 hours of human work — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Cybersecurity12 events
- Steam forum ClickFix attacks infect gamers with XMRig cryptominers — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The hottest indie game on Steam just had a malware scare — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Malvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- North Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen funds from country's bank via crypto — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- North Korea arrests bank hacking ring tied to crypto laundering: Report — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CTM360 Research Reveals How Insurance Phishing Has Evolved Into Real-Time Account Hijacking — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cl0p Affiliates Target Internet-Exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM with Unauthenticated RCE — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git — 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.