The day in AI and tech
Wednesday 5 August 2026
129 events from 36 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. One event, marked with its number of outlets, has a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence76 events
- Meta AI Releases Muse Code (Beta): A Terminal Coding Agent Powered by the New Muse Spark 1.2 Model — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- News Corp subscriptions fall in Australia as company takes aim at ‘slimy’ AI slop — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Google Loses The Engineer Who Helped Build Search And Modern AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videos — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- This AI Platform Can Take The Heat. Literally. — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- End-to-End Bayesian Marketing Mix Modeling with Google Meridian: Media Measurement, ROI Analysis, and Budget Optimization — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Senator Warren questions US AI chip policy after Trump crypto investment: Report — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- CRMLS CEO Art Carter sees more industry litigation ahead, AI blindspots — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare OS: Here’s What’s Inside the Open-Source AI Agent Platform — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Perplexity Wins Appeal Against Amazon in AI Agent Shopping Lawsuit — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI Referrals Are Recreating The Oldest Mistake In Conversion Optimization via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Gartner Marks Enterprise Move from AI Experiments to AI Engineering — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- A prestigious university used AI to monitor its entrance exam. It turned into a disaster — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why Higgsfield Inked Deals for AI Avatars of Streamer N3on, UFC’s Israel Adesanya and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, and More for New Film (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI and Anthropic's Rogue Models Hacked Real Companies. The Law Has No Answer — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google's AI shakeup: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Tech Industry Leaders Launch Open Secure AI Alliance — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Samsung showcases fast and efficient BV-NAND V10 storage, zHBM for AI accelerators — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Are AI Companies Really Destroying Books? — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- PTC CEO: AI is a ‘Tailwind’ For Business — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- When AI Takes The Click, Click Worthiness Should Guide Your Strategy via @sejournal, @billhunt — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- HouseMe.ai launches U.S. with direct MLS connections — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Advertising Adds AI Visibility Insights, PMax Testing, And Creative Preview Updates via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down to become chair — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- LinkedIn Is Cracking Down on AI Slop. Here’s What That Means for Your Strategy — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- After a week with Gemini Notebook on my Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, I can’t imagine using it on a slab phone — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Eliza Founder Declares AI Token 'Dead,' Shuts Down Foundation After Lawsuit Settlement — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI deepfakes are already in full force this election season — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- 10 SEO use cases for auditing your accessibility tree for AI search — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Hunting for Deals with AI this Back-to-School Season — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Your next real estate client isn’t Googling you — they’re asking an AI — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI Visibility Measurement: What To Track & What To Ignore — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- What happens when AI Overviews contradict paid search ads? — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI startup Osmo wants to make corporate videos that don’t look like slop — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s AI investments are turning Washington into a VC firm — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why paid search could be your AI search advantage — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI agent token once worth $2.4 billion ends with founder calling it dead — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Wispr Flow launches an AI note-taker that works without joining calls — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit Wants To Be The Destination, Not Just The Source Behind Search & AI via @sejournal, @brentcsutoras — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- If AI answers replace clicks, your listings data becomes your marketing — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down and it has some homework left before you migrate — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Ask your employees one question about AI. The silence will tell you everything — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Trump's Hormuz Update, OpenAI & Anthropic AI Alarms | The Pulse 8/5/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google quietly rewrote Chrome’s AI documentation with important answers to on-device AI downloads — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Faye Raises $50 Million, Bets on AI to Get Travel Insurance Claims Paid in Minutes — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Sprake: Markets Punch-Drunk on AI Capex Spend — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Live updates: An AI credit bubble could set up bitcoin’s path to $1 million — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Study finds readers rate AI-written stories higher, but still trust the “human” label more — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare introduces wallets for AI agents, plans stablecoin payments — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Europe’s AI sovereignty is under threat. Could Mistral be the answer? — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI credit bubble could fuel Bitcoin ‘crack-up boom’ past $1M: Hayes — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI were caught breaking the rules again — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Goldman Sachs' Keung on Chinese AI Models — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Banks to offload $15bn of debt for Anthropic data centre backed by Google — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Has the AI race shifted from U.S. vs China to open vs closed? — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- US-Iran Deal Hope Grows; SpaceX Sinks After AI Splurge | The Asia Trade 8/5/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Eli Roth Admits ‘Ice Cream Man’ Features AI-Assisted Shots After Suggesting Otherwise: ‘I Misspoke’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips9 events
- Virginia Orders Data Centers To Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Pseudogap in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Celestica’s $3 Billion Deal Joins Data Center Funding Rush — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Asus and Gigabyte just made your next RTX 50 GPU even more expensive — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Morning Minute: Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum Fears — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- $25 billion in data centers shows St. Louis is serious about competing in the AI economy — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Coming to Some of Pennsylvania’s Most Picturesque Places: Data Centers — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- CopilotKit Open Sources Channels SDK: An MIT Licensed Library That Runs Any AG-UI Agent Inside Slack And Microsoft Teams — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy10 events
- Why a friendlier robot loses your trust faster when It messes up — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Zoox's Autonomous Pod Without A Steering Wheel Wants Your Money Now — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Some Owners Say Tesla's New FSD Update Is Causing Their Cars' Computers To Overheat — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Uber CEO brushes off reports of a Waymo break-up — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- DoorDash Gets FAA Green Light for Commercial Drone Deliveries — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34B Open Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Driving Under OpenMDW-1.1 — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Space5 events
- SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Cybertrucks are replacing NASA’s military escape vehicles at SpaceX launches — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX rocket segment to crash into the moon: What happened? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab), BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)
Biotech6 events
- A tumour-derived organoid biobank maps cancer gene dependencies — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Who Is Steven Quay, the Biotech Exec Likely to Take Fauci's Old Job? — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- An FDA decision could give us the first mRNA flu vaccine — NPR (opens NPR's report in a new tab), MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on NPR (opens in a new tab)
- Forget Neuralink. This startup thinks your tongue is the better interface — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- FDA is poised to decide whether to approve the first mRNA flu vaccine — NPR (opens NPR's report in a new tab)Read on NPR (opens in a new tab)
- The ethical perils of gene therapy — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech2 events
- Ondo Finance hires former Blockchain.com CFO Adam Schlisman — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Proof of Play to shut down after blockchain gaming thesis falls short — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity21 events
- Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Iranian hackers and America’s Achilles heel on water: default passwords — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Big US hedge funds hit by wave of cyber attacks — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Coldcard exploit could boost demand for regulated bitcoin exposure, analysts say — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Paperclip AI Flaws Let Attackers Run Host Commands via Malicious Agent Imports — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google Blogger locks hundreds of blogs in malware false positive — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Veeam, Terraform MCP, Django Patch Critical Flaws, Led by CVSS 10.0 Cross-Tenant Bug — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How AI-powered phishing killed blocklists for good — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Trojanized npm Packages Decode C2 IP From Ethereum Recipient Addresses — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Kali365 Weaponizes Microsoft Authentication Against US Companies: New Enterprise Risk — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Critical Gitea Flaw Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Org-Mode Markup — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Leaked n8n API Tokens Exposed Live Instances to Credential Theft — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Open VSX Removes 77 Malicious Evil Twin Extensions Exfiltrating Developer Data — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Delivers FDMTP Backdoor via Trojanized Windows Installer — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- "You stole, please return some." Coldcard hacker's wallet becomes a graffiti wall of pleas and hustles — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (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.