The day in AI and tech
Sunday 26 July 2026
29 events from 14 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence21 events
- The dream of uber cheap phones for kids and grandparents is effectively dead, thanks to AI — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The Hidden Cost of San Francisco’s Explosive AI Boom — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- China’s Moonshot, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. AI labs—and beating them on cost — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI Isn’t Replacing Customer Service. It’s Changing What Great Service Looks Like — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Making Work Easier. It May Also Be Making Us Less Human — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Mira Murati’s Inkling AI Model Review: Best Open-Source Model in the West — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Your AI calorie-tracking app may be off by 345 calories — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- What is the AI Kill Switch Act proposed in the US and how will it work? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- KwaiKAT Team Releases KAT-Coder-V2.5: An Agentic Coding Model Trained on 100,000+ Verifiable Repository Environments — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- George Martin never out-wrote the Beatles. That’s exactly why he’s the AI leadership lesson we need now — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- X Live-Tweets Its Fight Against Chatbot Spam In Real-Time via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Induction Labs Photon-1 Simulates Desktops, Plays Checkers, and Models Billiard Physics From One Pretraining Run — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- FAIRChem v2 UMA for Multidomain Atomistic Simulation across Molecules, Catalysts, Materials, Vibrations, and Molecular Dynamics — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Another State Approves Ban on AI-Powered Surveillance Pricing — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Why workers are nostalgic for life before AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Making 5 Human Skills More Valuable Than Ever. Most Companies Are Investing in the Wrong Thing — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Cyber: An Orchestration Model Reporting 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips2 events
- ‘My childhood home is being taken’: Eminent domain for data centers targets properties across a thousand miles of grid expansion in Georgia — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Data centers were actually making electricity costs cheaper, but the $7 trillion buildout with no guaranteed AI demand is threatening the trend — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Wearables & XR2 events
- Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Apple’s smart glasses are running late because they don’t want to stir a privacy storm — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity3 events
- GitHub, PyPI add time-absed defenses against supply chain attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Divide and conquer’: China exploits EU divisions over trade — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Binance ‘red teams’ its own staff every month to keep hackers out — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (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.