The day in AI and tech
Sunday 2 August 2026
32 events from 18 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence20 events
- Gregg Araki Is “Not A Big Supporter” Of AI, But Found It Useful For Editing This ‘I Want Your Sex’ Scene: “Literally Insane” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI teases Astra, its next major AI model, after it solves 10 long-standing math problems — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI is creating a two-speed jobs market in the UK, Indeed says — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- As AI creates more entrepreneurs and a skills mismatch, Gen Z faces the choice of being a specialist or a ‘general-purpose nerd’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google voice redesign merges AI Mode, Search Live, & Song lookup on Android — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)
- For Months, LinkedIn Users Complained About AI Slop. The Company Just Responded With a Massive Change — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Race Has a Hidden Problem. Nobody Agreed on the Rules — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Adoption Sparks Cultural Divide — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Corporate Travel’s Rulebook Is Its AI Booking Advantage — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion over pirated books, but it can still legally cut up purchased ones — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- 5 ways AI could save our democracy — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- End-to-End Forecasting with TimesFM 2.5: Backtesting, Covariates, Anomaly Detection, and Scalable Colab Deployment — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips1 event
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
Space1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity7 events
- Coldcard exploit sparks Bitcoin flight, ‘bullish’ crypto consolidation: Hodler’s Digest, August 2 — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- As Trump balks again at escalating war, Iran smells ‘blood in the water’ and looks to exploit its newfound strategic advantage, experts say — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to $88 Million as Attackers Keep Draining Wallets — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Unlike the FTX collapse, the $89 million Coldcard exploit has investors sending bitcoin back to exchanges — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- UK’s state investments agency hit by data breach — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Apple struggles to keep pace with AI ‘bug’ hunters — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (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.