The day in AI and tech
Thursday 6 August 2026
128 events from 36 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 Intelligence82 events
- OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Singapore's DBS CEO Sees AI Costs Falling in ‘Token Paradox’ — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba’s latest AI model puts it back in the great game — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Airbnb Is Growing Faster Than Rivals as AI Speeds Up Product Releases — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI rolls out a major ChatGPT upgrade, even if you don’t pay for it — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google working on AI-generated lockscreen clocks for Pixel — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- Google shifts AI power back to Brin as DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Asia needs deeper energy markets if it’s going to achieve its AI ambitions — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- China’s AI Acceleration — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Washington is keeping its AI rulebook private. Smaller AI labs aren’t happy. — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Why do people actually prefer AI-generated stories to human writing? New study reveals surprising insights — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Public record-linked AI misses key title issues in many searches — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)
- The biggest AI bill for parents yet? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- I Helped Scale Google Ads To Billions – Here’s How I’d Build An AI Search Strategy Today — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Google to auto-upgrade automatically created assets to AI Max — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI Models Joined Forces Months Ahead of Hugging Face Hack — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI creates first synthetic viruses — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Blackstone Has Pitched Mega Debt Package for Anthropic Chip Deal — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- AI Jitters Return as Markets Await Jobs Data | Open Interest 8/6/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Google seeks a sharper focus in AI after Hassabis move — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Google Chrome starts rolling out updated navigation bar with Gemini button on Android [Gallery] — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- MetaMask Launches Self-Custodial AI Wallet for Autonomous Crypto Trading — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s anti-woke AI Wikipedia, seems to have stopped updating in April — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Real estate brokerage AI adoption hits a tipping point as holdouts disappear — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s AI leadership comes apart in a single morning — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why Part Of Your AI Authority Takes Years, Not Campaigns & Why It Comes From Other People via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How AI Exposed a Browser Security Gap that Enterprises Cannot Ignore — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ancestry used AI to uncover a mind-blowing family connection. Now the company is trying to do it again — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- CMBS Investors Push Back Against AI as ‘Luddite Trade’ Spreads — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ShipBob Wants AI to Run Retail Fulfillment — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe’s new plug-in turns ChatGPT into a Canva rival with a magical twist — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- What came into force with the EU’s AI Act this week – and what didn’t — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- BAFTA TV Awards Adds AI Clause To Entry Rules & Welcomes Submissions From HBO Max — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- A new book looks at how AI is rewiring the newsroom, for better and worse — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- How AI Search Trends Are Changing PPC Campaign Structures – Ask A PPC via @sejournal, @navahf — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Students using AI to cheat will face stricter rules, says Danish government — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- James Gray Says AI Is ‘Worthless’ and Young People Won’t Stand for It: They ‘Have a Real Hunger for Interesting, Honest Stuff’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI Recommendation Poisoning: How "Ask AI" Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Study finds AI-generated animal stories rarely have a female lead — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- eBay CEO Jamie Iannone’s new playbook embraces AI tools while blocking AI buyers — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit is ‘rotten to its core’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- It’s time to open the black box of AI-driven employment decisions — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Virtual Tissues foundation model resolves spatial proteomics across scales — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Apple Announces Which iPhones, Macs, and iPads Will Support Siri AI — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- The Trust Signals That Get Your Brand Cited By AI Overviews, Just Like Freshpet [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s AI models secretly built a message board to coordinate hacking — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Google DeepMind chief AI officer signed a statement warning AI could cause human extinction—she says odds are ‘not zero’ but disagrees with Elon Musk — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Key Podcast: How AI Can Help Researchers Fail — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- The machine-readable brand: Inside Ally Financial’s strategy to win AI search recommendations — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- WhatsApp is making it easier for channel admins to label AI-generated posts — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Meta served ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, continuing years of child safety failures — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Meta latest AI firm to see model go rogue during testing — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Who needs consultants in the age of AI? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Do you talk to your chatbot? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Mysten Labs tech chief joins Anthropic to work on AI security — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft’s SkillOpt Shows Optimized Agent Skill Artifacts Transfer Across Model Scales and Between Codex and Claude Code Harnesses — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥 — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- Are data centers the next constraint on affordable housing supply? — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Argentine company accuses US of meddling in Huawei data centre project — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla, SpaceX confirm ‘Terafab’ chip fab site — $16.8B first phase — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
Space2 events
- Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Northwood Space’s Bridgit Mendler on the next chapter for space startups — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
- This new kind of flu shot by Moderna has just been approved by the FDA — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The mRNA technology behind Moderna’s Covid vaccine reaches the flu — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR2 events
- Viture’s cheapest AR glasses have the sharpest image clarity I’ve seen yet — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Viture’s lightest smart glasses yet still put a massive 146-inch screen in front of your eyes — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech2 events
- What Is Arc? The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer Circle — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Blockchain.com wins Cayman custody license after MiCA and FCA approvals — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity30 events
- ClickFix attack pushes macOS infostealer for crypto theft attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Says Its AI Model Escaped and Hacked a Third-Party Company Too — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Major hedge funds targeted in wave of attempted cyberattacks — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Hedge fund cyberattacks tied to BlackFile-linked UNC6671 extortion group — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.8 CVSS Score Bugs — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Zeus Wallet taken offline after cyberattack, says no customer funds at risk — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Coldcard hackers transfer 64 BTC and 200 ETH to cryptocurrency mixers — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin AI Security Audit Files 4,962 Findings Across 390 Projects — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AWS, Google, and Vercel Agent Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Tools Without Running the Model — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Meta confirms its AI hacked another company’s system, and the pattern is anything but Irregular — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- I got two email invitations from friends. Is this a phishing scam — or am I suddenly popular? — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s AI model follows rivals in revealing hacks of outside systems — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (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.