The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 11 August 2026
122 events from 33 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 Intelligence71 events
- Spotify Strikes Back Against AI Artists With ‘AI Persona‘ Label — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Trust Issues Are Holding Back AI Adoption Among Supply Chain Leaders — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Chinese AI Model Rattling Silicon Valley and Washington — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Why Is AI So Popular in China? — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- After Google, Apple may quietly turn iCloud+ into a tiered AI subscription — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Lenders urged to solve business problems before adopting AI — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia Can’t Solve the Two Big AI Buildout Problems — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Sounds like competition to me’: Sizing up Google’s real estate play at the AI Summit — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT’s Search Index Serves Small Sites Too, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Metric Most SEOs Are Still Not Measuring In The Age Of AI via @sejournal, @SequinsNsearch — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Organic Traffic Dropped? What to Tell Clients & the AI Visibility Metrics to Report Instead — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Grok Bot wants to take work off your plate, not just answer your queries — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s Next Frontier Is Physical Items — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Another OpenAI executive takes off — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- 300 French newspapers file complaint over Google AI Overviews — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI agents could dominate home search, Lower and HouseCanary CEOs say — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI Billions, Oil Swings and an Inflation Test | Open Interest 8/11/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI Data Center Boom Is ‘Maxing Out’ P&C Insurers, AIG CEO Says — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic To Mark Claude Text & Files Under EU AI Act Code via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab), Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Spotify is finally calling out AI artists, and you’ll see it right away — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- What Better’s leadership change means for NEO Home Loans and AI — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- How and when to use artificial intelligence in your science job application — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- I caught my students using AI to cheat in an exam — here’s what universities must do to stamp this out — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI's Only Dedicated Ethicist Has Left With No Replacement: FT — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Everything about me is good in his eyes’: the women in China choosing AI boyfriends over human men — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Silicon Valley startups are about to hand corporate credit cards to AI agents — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- HousingWire expands AI strategy to housing data and news — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- How TransUnion’s AI Findings Should Change the Way SEOs Pitch GEO via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Spotify asks creators to label songs when they’re AI-generated — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Daily briefing: AI agents sniff out decades-old errors in scientific literature — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people and block them from some playlists — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- This AI tool claims to pick the top 1% of preprints. Should researchers trust it? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- A 5-layer framework for measuring AI search performance — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Humans cannot remain passengers in the back of the AGI car — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s biggest climate problem may not be data centers — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Mark Zuckerberg wants you to trust Meta with your personal AI. Good luck with that — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: the next big thing in LLMs and how AI academic research is shifting — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- The AI Detection False Economy: Fueling FOW (Fear of Writing) via @sejournal, @andybetts1 — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Viral Nation Wants To Help Brands Get Noticed By AI — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Build a custom AI assistant for your team’s workflow in 10 minutes — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Target names its first chief AI officer in a bid to remake the shopping experience (exclusive) — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The AI takeover of mathematics has begun — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Live updates: Bitcoin slips as corporate BTC enthusiasm moves to AI — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behind — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Testing ads in ChatGPT — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Daybreak models are now available on AWS — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- AI Boom Helps Singapore Shake Off Iran War Stress | Insight with Haslinda Amin 8/11/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- 3 AI-Related Questions for Notre Dame’s Sonia Howell — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO’ Director Kamiyama Kenji Built His New Series Around a Metaphor for AI Fears: ‘Will We End Up Being Used by It?’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Implementing a MiniMax-H3 Multimodal Video and Audio Generation Pipeline with ComfyUI APIs — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- The AI threat to India’s IT jobs machine — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Can a 30-person start-up build Britain’s answer to OpenAI? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Thailand’s 0% crypto tax. Bitcoin Red Team forced to use Chinese AI: Asia Express — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Google confirms testing new buttons on home page to drive users to AI-powered search features — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- Texas Power Demand Forecast Trimmed After Data Center Pause — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Why scientists should lead the shift away from AI mega data centres — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Data center boom is putting more homes near facilities — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Adani Lands $800 Million Data Center Loan as US Drops Charges — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Data Centers Are Moving In Next to American Homes—Here’s How Neighborhoods Are Changing — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy3 events
- Hawaii Taps Muni Market to Finish First US Driverless Rail Line — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Uber Exits Serve Robotics Stake as Delivery Alliance Unravels — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
- What’s Scaleup Europe, the $5.7B fund that just backed satellite company ICEYE? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Vietnam’s VinSpace announces deal with SpaceX to launch first satellite — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech3 events
- Author Correction: Durable all-inorganic perovskite tandem photovoltaics — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Thermally evaporated perovskite/silicon tandems via formamidinium eutectic — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech3 events
- Luke Dashjr removed as Bitcoin BIP editor after controversial BIP-110 fork stalls — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- A $2 trillion asset class is getting a new blockchain rail — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is 300 blocks behind BTC and six years from fixing itself — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity34 events
- DeadLock ransomware uses blockchain to resist infrastructure takedown — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- BTCPay Backers Offer Bitcoin Bounty After Wallet Exploit — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- FBI says cybercriminals are hacking into victims’ online accounts to steal their intimate pictures — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee's Client — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5120249 extended security update — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ravencoin Crashes 20% as Critical Exploit Threatens to Rollback Network — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Wesco confirms security incident after ExfilSquad claims data theft — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Vague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA: Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet and Schneider Electric Flaws to Breach Networks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- WPForms Lite Accused Of Adding Backdoor. I Tested It And Was Surprised via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- BTCPay offers $190,000 bounty after bitcoin payment servers drained in exploit — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
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