The day in AI and tech
Saturday 1 August 2026
39 events from 19 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence19 events
- Shittu 'robbed' - are AI boxing judges the answer? — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI Loan Market Sees Investor Demands Rise, Borrowers Offer Better Terms — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google just canceled its AI Studio mobile app, and it’s not all bad news — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The More Americans Know About AI, the Less They Like It: Gallup — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction will soon be unlocked because someone needs to build new AI centers — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Solana Foundation's new CISO warns AI is making crypto scams more convincing — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- What Opting Out Of Google’s AI Search Features Means Now via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Despite China’s 996 culture, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says his workers don’t do overtime or even have KPIs: ‘No one manages them’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Why a U.S. sovereign wealth fund for AI is harder than it sounds — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 4 neuroscience-backed tips for using AI to learn more effectively — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Run a free, private, offline AI on your computer to handle repetitive tasks — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s ‘cookie banner’ moment: EU labels come for the bots — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AMD is apparently gearing up to raise GPU prices right after Nvidia’s steep hike — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon’s Andy Jassy sees a $1 trillion cloud built on businesses like the PGA Tour—which swapped its server trucks for AI broadcasts — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here’s every company it’s using to do it — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid | Dave Schilling — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Florida Got $200 Million For EV Chargers. It Wants To Spend It On Air Taxis Instead — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
Space3 events
- Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- A dead SpaceX rocket that’s been adrift for over a year is about to slam into the moon, carving out a new crater with the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Massive US tungsten discovery could run into Nasa roadblock — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity9 events
- Amid fears of Iranian cyberattacks, Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting hackers targeted water systems. The FBI is now investigating — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab), Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89 million — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- CZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $70 Million Wallet Exploit: 'Nothing Is 100%' — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Binance founder CZ calls for wallet diversification after $70 million Coldcard exploit — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware — 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.