The day in AI and tech
Monday 3 August 2026
103 events from 35 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence68 events
- Tokenomics: Why making AI pay is tricky — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Snapchat Clamps Down On AI-Generated Videos via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Report: Content Infrastructure, Governance Lag Behind Agentic AI Adoption — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Apple is getting this wrong — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Former FBI Agent Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Crypto and Using ChatGPT for Investment Advice — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- A Patchwork Approach to AI Regulation Is Best—for Now — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Forget em-dashes: A viral report on AI-generated writing has surprising new clues — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Palantir forecasts greater demand from US groups for its AI software — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo discusses her battle with POTS and her startup’s plans to cure it with AI and 3,500 vials of blood (so far) — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Google kills unreleased AI app — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- What the Hank Green fan backlash says about AI in the creator community — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Want to get more from AI? Treat every prompt like an experiment — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Open Knowledge Format v0.2 Adds A Trust Layer – No AI Agent Reads It Yet via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- SAP Concur Adds New AI Tools for Approvals, Cards, and Travel Leakage — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Why AI Recommends Your Competitor & What To Do About It via @sejournal, @lorenbaker — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- RealAnalytica launches AI workforce for real estate — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- The European Commission puts AI transparency rules into practice — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Clarity adds branded and non-branded AI queries — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Valuation Gaps Set to Widen as Investment Cycle Matures — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI Search Data Is Now in Google Search Console: Here’s What You Need to Know — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- The AI boom has college majors of all types dabbling in computer science — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- DeepSeek just slashed AI prices again, and China’s AI race is getting even messier — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- How to measure your brand’s visibility in Gemini — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How topical authority spreads (and where it doesn’t) in ChatGPT [Study] — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon and Walmart’s AI Can Flag Fake ‘Made in USA’ Claims. They Just Won’t. — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- SoftBank, Hitachi, LG back Zenity’s $125 million round to police AI agents — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The computer science major is dying so that the AI literacy minor can be born: ‘we have to democratize it’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s AI Image Generation In Google Earth Literally Became Disastrous via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Reviews, Reputation & Listings: The Local Signals AI Now Reads via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- What Travel AI Can Learn From Hipmunk, 16 Years Later — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- FOMO in the SOC: Where AI Platforms like Claude Actually Fit — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- EU Commission Article 50 AI Transparency Law Has Four Exemptions via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Palantir Is Stuck in Worst-of-Both-Worlds Bind With AI, Software — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon limits access to customer reviews for some users because it thinks they’re AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- How AI Could Make People More Anxious — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Apple may give the iPhone 18e one extra gigabyte and call it an AI upgrade — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The White House is fixated on China copying U.S. AI. Experts say that’s the wrong threat — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- China Insight: How AI Is Redefining Fashion, Beauty and the Future of Consumer Innovation — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- This Harvard Researcher’s Warning About AI Commerce Should Worry Every CEO — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Cogent AI Team Releases VR-1: A Frontier Cyber Reasoning Model That Composes and Verifies Enterprise Attack Paths — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- AI is changing what it takes to be a great real estate agent. Here’s what matters now. — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Could Let Model Repositories Execute Arbitrary Code — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How to use AI to boost your creativity — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- New DeepSeek, Alibaba Models Take On Anthropic, OpenAI | The China Show | 8/3/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- US-China AI Rivalry Grows With Alibaba's Anthropic Rival — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Benchmark Firm: China AI Models Still Lag US Rivals — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Homebuilders Accuse Data Centers of Snapping Up Prime Land at ‘Impossible Prices’ — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- The One Town That Wants a Data Center — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Nearly 1,900 U.S. public schools are within a mile of a data center — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- FedEx Scales Autonomous Trailer Loading Beyond Pilot, Growing Robotics Push — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla FSD v14 Lite tied to rising HW3 computer failures, owners report — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Electric air taxis are finally ready for takeoff — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Space3 events
- Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon on Wednesday. It’s a symptom of something much worse — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- EchoStar Unit Hughes Satellite Files for Bankruptcy as Debt Falls Due — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech1 event
Blockchain Tech4 events
- Kenya moves 30 million academic credentials onto Avalanche blockchain — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- BlackRock expands tokenized cash with new blockchain-based money market offerings — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Solo Bitcoin miner nets $200,000 as Coldcard hardware wallet drains rocks sentiment — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Coldcard’s 5-year flaw reveals hardware wallet testing gap: Kraken’s security chief — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity20 events
- Phishing Report Emphasizes Importance of Building a Security Culture — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- What Is an Air-Gapped Bitcoin Wallet? Why the Coldcard Exploit Changes the Conversation About Offline Security — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- New DOUBLECUP ClickFix service hides malware in browser cache images — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Fake Roblox Xeno script launcher pushes infostealer, RAT malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- 18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How Israel and the European far right tried to exploit Ceuta — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Inside the Underground Business of the Android BTMOB RAT malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Bitcoin, ether decline as Coldcard exploit enters a fifth day — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- PNLD Breach Exposes U.K. Police and Government Contact Details on Dark Web — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectable — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Brinks Home Confirms Breach After Hackers Claim Theft of 5 Million Records — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (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.