The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 4 August 2026
119 events from 32 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 Intelligence66 events
- OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- OpenAI hits back at Apple over ‘oddly personal’ trade secrets fight — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- AI can knock on the door. Your CRM marketing platform is still the house. by Optimove — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- ‘Baffling’: White House won’t publicly release AI model evaluation framework it reviewed today with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and others — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler's Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Kanye West’s Vultures II and Bully Used AI, New Lawsuit Alleges — Pitchfork (opens Pitchfork's report in a new tab)Read on Pitchfork (opens in a new tab)
- 'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Inside Google’s Efforts to Get Creatives Hooked on AI — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Booking Holdings Saw ‘Pressure’ From Google’s AI Overviews — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Naomi Watts’ Secret ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Role Reunited Her With Tom Holland, 12 Years After ‘The Impossible’: ‘From Playing Your Mom to Your AI’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Trump meets AI giants, Senate Dems decry ‘unpredictable’ governance — and cheap Chinese AI looms as giant security risk — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Police Have Arrested 37 Americans Over AI Data Center Protests This Year — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Silicon Valley’s most absurd meme is taking on the worst corporate jargon in AI and tech — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI president Greg Brockman: We ‘contort’ ourselves around computers, clicking and typing is a ‘phase’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s Great Reverse Run On The Bank — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- What Top Stories Inside AI Overviews Means For Publishers And Brands In 2026 And Beyond via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- ‘Dear ChatGPT, How Do I Talk to Gen Alpha?’ — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Influencers are being dragged for indulging in a luxury New York nature retreat on OpenAI’s dime — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Fender’s CEO compared cover bands to AI. Now he’s walking it back — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI May Make Denim Supply Chain Data More Complex, Not Simpler — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Not healthy’ LLM use is more common than you think — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba Just Gave Away Its Best AI Model For Free, Almost Matching Claude and ChatGPT — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Tech Tuesday: Trust in the Age of Agentic Commerce — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- So Is Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” AI or What? — Pitchfork (opens Pitchfork's report in a new tab)Read on Pitchfork (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Pro replaced Gemini Notebook as my favorite research app, and I didn’t see it coming — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Rechat integrates with ChatGPT, Claude — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Deepfake bosses are crashing video calls, and researchers are trying to expose them — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Allbirds’ New IP Owner Reveals First Details About the Brand’s Future in Footwear — Not AI — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Google Now Reports AI Search Impressions. Here’s How To Read Them via @sejournal, @cshel — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Varonis Agent IBAC keeps AI agents within their intended boundaries — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- America’s Cosmic Bet on AI — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT dominates Congress’s AI spending — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- How AI turned your best work into the bare minimum — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Tokyo’s TIFFCOM 2026 Expands IP Market, Adds AI and Anime Conferences — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare just launched a permanent ID tool and wallet for AI shopping — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- How AI visibility adds context to PPC performance — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI chatbots will happily create fake news articles, and tests show ChatGPT is the worst at it — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- You trained the AI. Big Tech got paid — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The agentic AI naming trap: Why you must move from red oceans to blue — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit just tripped over an embarrassing wrong-recipient email — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- How Simon Weckert’s "Digital Camouflage" Garments Use Adversarial Attacks to Fool AI Cameras — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- To navigate the fraught AI landscape, we need to shift from debate to dialog — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Sir Martin Sorrell has identified the key AI skill for the future: ‘People who share will be the new kings and queens’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Building an Advanced AI Skill Security Auditing Pipeline with NVIDIA SkillSpector, LangGraph, YARA Rules, SARIF, and CI Policy Gates — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Risk Demand Grows for Europe as AI Woes Hit US, Citi’s Chew Says — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s Greg Brockman gave $5.5 million to protect the home of an internet-famous bald eagle named Jackie — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Beijing Said To Be Worried About Anthropic’s Mythos Model | The China Show | 8/4/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The AI race isn’t about models, it’s about infrastructure—and the U.S. is still far ahead — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Hair Care Brands That Dominate AI Search — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Genspark Open Sources GenOffice: A Free, Ad-Free AI Office Suite for macOS and Windows with Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips16 events
- Elon Musk says SpaceX data centers will crush competitors because having rocket scientists is like the Yankees ‘playing a little league team’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The data center boom’s climate blind spot — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Cursor Open-Sources Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK): A Deterministic MoE Training Megakernel for GB300 NVL72 Racks — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Bitdeer expands AI infrastructure with long-term $4.7B data center lease — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Caterpillar Raises Sales Outlook on Data Center Boom — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Why Jim Cramer’s quantum panic isn’t rattling bitcoin as price holds steady around $64,000 — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech2 events
- Beeline expands blockchain home equity lending operations with planned TYTL acquisition — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Malaysia Blockchain Week’s OnlyFans scandal, lonely heart scammed for $3.3M: Asia Express — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity28 events
- This Bitcoin Bridge Shut Itself Down Because AI Was Finding Bugs Too Fast — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ledger Says Coldcard Exploit Shows Bitcoin Wallet Security Must Adapt to AI — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Jim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over Quantum Threat—Crypto Twitter Is Thrilled — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Explained: Entropy, How Keys Are Generated, and Why Bits Matter — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- 77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Apple's AI Slop Problem Left a $200K macOS Exploit Unreported — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Is drinking water safe? What to know about the water systems cyberattacks targeting multiple states — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hardware Wallet Firms Warn of Phishing Surge as Coldcard Losses Near $130M — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin rises toward $64,000 as Coldcard exploit, Strategy sales recede. ADA advances — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Former FBI supervisor admits guilt in $1M crypto theft — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Chrome wants more extension reviews, but good ratings won’t keep malware out — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Passkeys were pushed as a safer future. Hackers have figured out ways to break those synced to Google — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- DOUBLECUP Uses ClickFix and Cached PNGs to Deliver CountLoader and DeviceManager RAT — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA Adds Exploited N-able N-central Flaw to KEV After Customer Compromises — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Few crypto firms have access to frontier AI as cyber threats escalate — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Hotel Wi-Fi attacks use custom malware to breach Microsoft 365 accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Boltz pauses service after wave of AI-assisted hacking attempts — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
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