The day in AI and tech
Thursday 30 July 2026
117 events from 37 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
- LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- FirstTeam and Purlin on avoiding AI mistakes: ‘Some stuff actually creates more work’ — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Viaim RecDot Review: These AI earbuds sounds great and also take notes for you — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon Thrives On Big Q2 For AI, Advertising Revenue Climbs 26% To Near $20 Billion Mark — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon Q2 Ad Revenue Up 26% as Tech Giant’s Profit Booms to $62.6 Billion on Anthropic Investments — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Urbanworld CEO Stacy Spikes Warns of Guilds Policing Filmmakers After WGA Pulls Sponsorship Over AI Initiative (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Visions of Tomorrow: 3D or AI Design? Target Says That’s the Wrong Question. — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s AI is digging up Chrome bugs that humans missed for years — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit Projects Strong Sales, But No New AI Deals — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Is This House Haunted?’ The Strangest Questions People Are Asking RealAssist AI — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- That cringey LinkedIn post? You can now report it as ‘AI slop’ — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Researchers Tried Letting AI Do Science. It Failed — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI Search Isn’t Replacing Google, It’s Layering On Top – Similarweb Data via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI models favor familiar brands in search: Study — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Google DeepMind Ships Three Physical AI Models For Whole Body Control, Dexterity And Multi Robot Collaboration — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)
- Are investors really getting cold feet about the AI boom? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On Unpublished Debut Novel ‘Call Me, I’ll Hide The Body’ – The Dish — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Google tests AI-generated descriptions in Shopping ads — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Visions of Tomorrow: Retail Tech Leaders Say AI Success Starts With Ending Old Processes — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- How the AI industry forgot two of its best ideas — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Seniors are frequent targets of AI fraud scams — and voice cloning raises the risks — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI Startup Fairground, Founded by Xumo Creator, to Launch First AI-Exclusive FAST Channel (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon and Walmart’s AI can spot fake ‘Made in USA’ labels but won’t tell you, says study — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Selling SEO or AI services? Your sales team needs more than a pitch deck — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- What’s your ‘AI Type’? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s ‘Generative AI’ Search Console Data Is A Trap For Marketers via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Farm Rio Is Working With An AI-Powered Supply Chain Platform To Digitize Its Operations — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Dili raises $21.7 million to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Head Of Anthropic’s Claude Code Says Prompt Engineering Not That Important via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Entity Mapping Works On Google. Does Any Of It Reach ChatGPT? via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How to turn news articles into assets for AI search — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- CMOs must become AI orchestration leaders — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Copilot for Word Can Copy Hidden Prompts Into New Documents — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The Network Has Become the Control Plane for AI Security — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The great scramble to build AI compute you can actually own — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 5 strategies for increasing AI visibility without messing up your SEO by Bodhium Labs — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Digital PR for AI visibility: 5 tactics + how to measure — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Content optimization: 20 tactics to boost SEO & AI visibility — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6 — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- How AI can help make busy shipping routes safer for whales — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Meta used AI to make your Instagram feed harder to quit — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- A Librarian Is Offering a Class on Avoiding AI. The Response Is Huge — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Generative AI could boost creativity, but only for some workers — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Token Saver: An Open-Source MCP Extension Using Local Hybrid RAG to Cut Claude PDF Token Costs 90-99% — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Law Schools Are Asking the Wrong Question About AI — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- A First Lawsuit Tests What Universities Are Owed for AI Research — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- LSEG Boosts Guidance as AI Rollout Adds to Record First Half — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens 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)
- Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Bitcoin's quantum plan assumes some algorithms break. AI just weakened one in 60 hours — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- ByteDance’s plan to dominate AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Eastspring's Wong on Opportunities Amid AI Volatility — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness seeks to raise capital after AI rout — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips12 events
- Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia’s RTX 50 GPUs are about to cost nearly double what you paid at launch — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin Quantum Threat Inches Closer as IBM Claims 'Trusted Quantum Advantage' — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Hyperscale Data sells 100 BTC to fund Michigan AI data center — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Equinix Seeks at Least $3 Billion From Latest Data Center Deal — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- The Town That Wants a Data Center Next Door — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- SocGen Nears $5 Billion-Linked SRT Including Data Center Debt — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Qualcomm confirms incoming price hike, and rising memory cost isn’t the only driving factor — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- In A First, U.S. Clears Zoox's Steering Wheel-Free Robotaxis For Paid Rides — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- Remember Samsung’s Ballie home robot? It may finally be inching closer to reality — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The US foreign-made robot crackdown is coming for future Roombas too — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- FCC Blocks New Foreign-Produced Robots and Power Inverters Over Cyber Risks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
Space2 events
- Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- NASA’s Curiosity rover found a ‘sea of polygons’ on Mars — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech3 events
- When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Dongfeng Just Unveiled A 1.5 MW EV Charger To Take On BYD. And It’s Just Getting Started — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity20 events
- South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- JetBrains warns of critical TeamCity remote code execution flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- US authorities probe cyberattack on water systems in Minnesota — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- DPRK-Linked macOS Malvertising Uses Fake Updates to Deliver Crypto-Stealing Malware — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Teams vishing attacks lead to Chaos ransomware attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Analog Devices discloses data breach, says operations unaffected — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- After the Break-In: What Attackers Do Once They're Already Inside — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Azure Cosmos DB Flaw Exposed Platform-Wide Key That Could Access Any Database — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers Exploit AnySign4PC via Hacked Korean Sites to Install Backdoors Without Prompts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SilverFox Targets Japanese Manufacturer with 3-Driver BYOVD Chain and ValleyRAT — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OWA Flaw to Keep Mailbox Access After Credential Rotation — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Cisco FMC Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Static Credentials Could Expose Sensitive Data — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
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