The day in AI and tech
Wednesday 29 July 2026
146 events from 38 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 Intelligence90 events
- OpenAI's Rogue AI Hacked Four More Platforms Besides Hugging Face — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +5 more outlets: who reported what7 outlets
- Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Former Perplexity engineer launches new Polar AI browser which aims to automate repetitive tasks — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Jeff Hiller Got Emmy Nom For 7-Minute ‘Pluribus’ Role Viewers Have Compared To ChatGPT: “I Was Trying To Convey Extreme Love” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Digital avatar of Jair Bolsonaro tests Brazil’s AI election rules — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Sam Altman meets lawmakers on back of OpenAI agents hacking companies — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Trump feds use a solar review to approve the first AI data center on public land — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Music Companies Demand More Scrutiny of AI-Generated Tracks Before Chart Debuts — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- These Are Some of the Top Questions Homebuyers Ask RealAssist AI on Realtor.com — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Can I Add an ADU?’ How Homebuyers are Using RealAssist AI on Realtor.com for Their Most-Pressing Questions — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Google Docs just gave Gemini four new AI tricks to speed up editing — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft’s cloud business boosts sales as AI investment climbs to $41bn — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Is AI really a job killer? Some employers say they’re actually hiring more — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- I use ChatGPT Pro everyday, and these 3 features keep me subscribed — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Tech people need to stop’: Startup faces backlash after suggesting its AI can save bad relationships — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The music industry wants AI slop kicked off the charts, and it finally has a plan — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Q3 AI Visibility: AI Citations, Brand Mentions & Content Refreshes That Work via @sejournal, @AirOpsHQ — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Prompt Engineering vs Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering: What Changes at Each Layer — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- 89% Of AI Search Demand Has No Clear Owner: Use This Before The Window Closes via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Meet Me at the AI-Insurance-Startup Café — Curbed (opens Curbed's report in a new tab)Read on Curbed (opens in a new tab)
- Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI halftime report: H1 2026 — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Fighting fire with fire’: Job candidates are sneaking AI prompt injections into their applications — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- H&M Is Applying to AI Design What It Learned With 3D: Don’t Force It. — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- In Just 3 Words, Mark Zuckerberg Explained How America Could Lose the AI Race — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- LPT Aperture Holdings acquires Speculo AI platform — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face drops in-depth hack report, while OpenAI gives us 7 bullets. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- This AI ‘Raygun’ can shrink and supersize proteins — opening the door to easy editing — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- CoreWeave Boosts Yield on $2.6 Billion Loan Tied to Anthropic — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- MoonPay vault enables ChatGPT and Claude users to authorize crypto transactions — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- DroiClaw is Evolving Smart Devices from App-Based to AI-Native OS — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini is moving into Google Play, and it has front-row seat to your spending habits — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini on Mac can now type what you say and act on what it sees — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Repliers, Unlock MLS partner to expand AI-powered access to Central Texas market data — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI shopping is coming to your favorite brand’s website — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Free AI chatbots are disrupting China’s expensive college counseling industry — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Your AI Agents Are Guessing at Scale: Permissions Decide the Damage — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Ghost citations: Why AI search cites your content, not your brand — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- How are AI models able to autonomously hack others? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AI isn’t just being forced on us. Even forest monkeys are now a test audience in the name of science — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- How to scale SEO content updates with Claude Code — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini can now summarize the messiest comment threads in Google Docs — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- What 15.7 million AI Mode citations reveal about getting quoted by Google by Pillarbase — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s powerful AI agents ran amok and hacked multiple services on their own — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Use AI, but don’t mask it — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Should AI companies be able to outsource safety? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Now Refuses to Mimic Famous Authors' Writing Styles Over Copyright Concerns — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- AI turned a disgraced President under house arrest into a live avatar for another election campaign — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- ING Nears SRTs on $10 Billion of Loans Including AI-Linked Debt — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Mark Zuckerberg wants AI superintelligence in everyone’s hands — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s top model just hacked a competitor, but the real issue is much scarier — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- I asked ChatGPT to pick a lender. Every loan officer should do the same. — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- How AI Is Shaping Higher Ed Communications — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four Services During Hugging Face Breach — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- AI Recognizes 96% Of Brands But Mentions Almost None, New Study Finds — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Queensland and NT reject Labor’s push to ensure that power-hungry AI datacentres use renewable energy — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Mark Zuckerberg says US should not ban Chinese AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI risks drag on $5bn Thoma Bravo-backed software refinancing — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips14 events
- Goldman Co-CIO: The Market's Punishing the Hyperscalers — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Data Center Deals & Changing Consumer Habits | Bloomberg Deals 7/29/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Underdog ‘spin qubits’ leap forward in race to a useful quantum computer — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AMD reveals budget-friendly RX 9050 GPU. More than anything, it’s a sign of terrible times for gaming — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- How silicon-chip technology is being re-engineered for quantum computing — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Quantum meets capitalism: how to pair long-term bets on technology with commercial speed — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Country Music Is Coming Out Strong Against Data Centers — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Data Centers Emerge as Growth Drivers for PPG, Sherwin-Williams — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal — Grist (opens Grist's report in a new tab)Read on Grist (opens in a new tab)
- Datacentre projects could face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- One AI Chipmaker Trade Blew Up $60 Million in Crypto Bets — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- SK Hynix profits soar sixfold on AI boom — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy13 events
- Waymo wants your next robotaxi ride to feel less like a taxi and more like your living room — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The Chinese robot army transforming the UK's retail industry — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- The GOKO M6 Robotic Lawn Mower Brings Industrial Robotics to Modern Lawn Care — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots? — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo adds Google’s Gemini AI assistant and new UI to Ojai robotaxi — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Volvo drops lidar for good on EX90 and ES90, pays owner compensation — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- US bans imports of new Chinese robots over security concerns — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- DoorDash is going airborne with new drone delivery division — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- I build self-driving trucks. Don’t build a self-driving company — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The US government just blacklisted foreign-made robots and power inverters — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Trump administration bans new Chinese humanoid robots — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech2 events
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech4 events
- BNY to bring transfer agency records onchain in blockchain push — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- BNY targets $8.6 trillion transfer agency market on blockchain rails — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- European financial institutions launch RL1 cooperative blockchain network — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- European financial institutions launch RL1 cooperative blockchain network — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity20 events
- There's a New Way to Protect Bitcoin From Future Quantum Attacks, Researchers Say — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers steal sensitive data from UK Department for Education and police — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- AI hackers are getting faster. The government may not be ready — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Critical Rails Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Image Uploads — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ruflo MCP Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Commands and Poison AI Memory — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Three Critical VMware Flaws Allow Auth Bypass, Code Execution, and VM Escape — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Crypto Long & Short: What this year's $972 million crypto hacks actually tell us about security — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers target over 30 Minnesota water utilities in coordinated OT attack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Coordinated Cyberattack Targets 30+ Minnesota Water Systems as One Plant Goes Offline — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Mythos Asks the Right Question. It Doesn't Answer It. — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Morning Minute: Claude Mythos Breaks Post-Quantum Cryptography — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- How prompt injection puts your brand and AI workflows at risk — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Researchers Show a Single Malicious Webpage Visit Can Compromise Tor Browser — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 73% of Organizations Say They Are Not Fully Ready for a Major Cyberattack — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New Gitea RCE Lets Repository Writers Plant a Git Hook to Run Shell Commands — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170 Servers as Source Code Circulates — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Two Compromised joyfill npm Packages Run RAT When Imported Into Node.js — 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.