The day in AI and tech
Saturday 8 August 2026
43 events from 21 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence20 events
- Warner Bros. Uses AI Dog Podcast to Promote ‘The End of Oak Street’: ‘Ewan McGregor Was Excellent With Treats’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- 20% of Americans are already using AI for financial advice — another 70% don’t trust it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Waiting 26 years ‘for this shoe to drop’: Musk’s AI company joins the fight to strip citizens of their power to sue — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- China’s AI Push Reshapes Its Economic Future — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Using AI to write complaint letters? Here's why it doesn't work — The Points Guy (opens The Points Guy's report in a new tab)Read on The Points Guy (opens in a new tab)
- Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI is changing work faster than the data can keep up — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI labs shouldn’t be allowed to grade their own homework — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Vanguard Chief Economist: AI and jobs, still in an ATM phase — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How Chevron became the AI darling of Big Oil — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The humble notebook still matters in the age of AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Mistral AI Releases Shieldstral 1.0 3B: An Open-Weights Policy-Adaptive Multimodal Safety Classifier Matching Models 7× Its Size — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Google Brings Agentic AI to Ask Maps Hotel Search — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips6 events
- Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Encapsulation epitaxy of air-stable 2D superconductors for quantum circuits — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Natural Gas Dominates PJM’s First Reformed Grid Queue, Driven by Data-Center Demand — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Inside the Trump administration’s $2 billion push to build the world’s first useful quantum computer — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SK Hynix promises to invest over $38 billion in new DRAM and NAND fabs — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
- The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- GrayMatter Robotics CEO: The FCC was right to ban Chinese robots. But protection alone won’t win the robotics race — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
Blockchain Tech4 events
- Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3% — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Hardware wallet sales in Russia more than double as new crypto rules near — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin holders risk losing real BTC if they sell coins from BIP-110 fork, says developer — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity9 events
- Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Another Bitcoin infrastructure exploit hits, this time draining Lightning payment servers — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report 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.