The day in AI and tech
Wednesday 12 August 2026
130 events from 40 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 Intelligence79 events
- Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +3 more outlets: who reported what5 outlets
- Google unveils the Pixel Watch 5 with a smarter Gemini and advanced health monitoring — 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
- San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Why Japanese firms are being so slow to use AI — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Sales Engineer Is Moving Into the Meeting — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Edited Is Bringing The World’s Largest Retail Dataset To AI Workspaces — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- AI Cloud Provider Lambda Prices Loan for Nvidia-Tied Chip Deal — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Canva was the rare startup that grew fast and made money—then AI costs slashed its growth forecast by a third — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- It May Be Time to Panic About AI — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- The next phase of The Real Brokerage’s AI is replacing the work, not the agent — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI Wants Grok Bot to Do Your Job—But It Needs Access to Your Accounts — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- How to Create Health & YMYL Content That Performs in AI Search — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Large Language Model (LLM) Editing Quietly Corrupts Documents. Here’s What the Research Says — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- MLS leaders say AI requires a new approach to governing real estate data — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI doesn’t transform organizations; leadership does. — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI can help sellers list homes, agents still drive net proceeds — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Thad Wong warns against AI replacing the personal client connection — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- 16 indispensable AI tools for real estate agents — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Real estate brokerage software: Our 15 top picks for 2026 (+ 6 AI innovators) — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Forget AI: Rap’s Biggest Trend This Summer Is the Eighties — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- CIOs and CTOs spent years lauding AI. Now, with costs rising, they’re putting limits on how it’s used — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- AI-Created Viruses; Taylor Farms' Outbreak History; Pulling a 'Full Fauci' — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Facebook officially rolls out its standalone Creator Studio app with AI tools for creators — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Optimal Blue’s Kevin Foley discusses AI Labs, Virtual Economist rollout — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Allows Some Health & Finance Ads In ChatGPT via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Real estate leaders weigh buying vs building AI tools — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offer fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Agent Should Belong to the Traveler — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Wintermute to pour $1B into AI, high-frequency trading amid TradFi expansion: Report — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Rod Stewart's Medical Procedure; Lightning Hospitalizes 16; AI as Sperm Detective — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s costly buildout complicates the Fed’s inflation fight — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- Datamaxxing is the latest AI trend and for once, it could be healthy for your health goals — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Community signals are AI’s largest third-party source — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Why AI can’t replace the creative struggle. — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models' Reasoning — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Who is Anthropic’s auditor — and why should we care? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- HistoryMaker Homes’ crawl-walk-run approach to AI adoption — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- In the Age of AI, your tech debt is an even bigger issue than you think — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI security cameras are everywhere. Can these garments scramble them all? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- After Chaos Of Cruise Vs Pitt AI Deepfakes, Seedance 2.5 Is Now Blocking Hollywood Rip-Offs — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- How AI can power a leaner, meaner homebuilding land team — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- The AI debate isn’t about AI. It’s about control — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI Music Generator Suno Strikes Licensing Deal With BMG as It Preps New Label-Backed Models — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Most Electricity Sought for AI Data Centers in US Will Never Materialize — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Crypto companies urge AI firms to give Bitcoin developers early access — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- AI-Generated Turkish Series ‘Castle Walls’ Launches on Prime Video in What Is Being Touted as a Worldwide Streaming First – Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Taiwan’s Foxconn reports 35 percent rise in profit on AI demand — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Apple Is Building a Hardware-Level “Reference Image” Tool To Combat AI-Generated Photos — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Meet ChatTJB, the “AI” chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It’s just one guy and 10,000 volunteers typing back — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- 234 ChatGPT prompts (and how to write your own) — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Presight CEO: AI Productivity Needed Despite Conflict — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- StanChart COO Sees AI Boosting Productivity — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI tools speed up analysis, but scientific truths must be grounded in reality — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Will AI make our dreams all look the same? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips6 events
- Chicago Mayor Seeks to Curb Health and Environmental Impacts of Data Centers — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab), Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Sony Semiconductor and TSMC join forces to make next-gen imaging processors — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Degree-of-polarization modulation for high-dimensional optical computing — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Data Center QTS Holds Investor Calls Ahead of Possible Debt Sale — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Heat, algae and AI: proposed datacenter could damage Everglades, experts warn — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Michigan Voters Just Sent a Resounding Message About 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)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
Space2 events
- Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- These 13 Environmental Laws Could be Waived to Speed Up Airport-to-Spaceport Conversions — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
Biotech4 events
- Scientists just created female clones of male mice — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- In vivo genome-wide CRISPR screens of human T cells in solid tumours — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Temporal uncoupling of radial glia lineage progression in cortical organoids — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Vaccination-first immune priming shapes a sustained mRNA vaccine-induced IgG4 class switch that associates with SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infection risk — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Wearables & XR4 events
- Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Rogbid’s $70 smart glasses with 39-day battery life sound almost too good to be true — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Why London’s Most Exclusive Clubs Are Banning Meta’s Wearable Tech — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- If you own Meta smart glasses then you may be banned from courts soon — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity32 events
- "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims' credit cards — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- White House Intros Classified Cybersecurity Review for Frontier AI Models — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including Flock — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Cybersecurity Researchers: AI Has Crossed into the Live Attack Chain — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- 'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- After Coldcard Was Hacked, $15 Billion in Bitcoin Moved to Safety — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Report: Cloud Crime on the Rise as Attackers Exploit Trust — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Zoomsday: AI Used to Build Critical Zoom Exploit in One Day — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Plug and Pwn attack uses fake USB devices for Windows SYSTEM access — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Lazarus hackers exploited Windows zero-day to target defense firms — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- 737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The Threat Hiding in Your Hiring Process: How Fake Remote Workers Get In — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers leverage new Microsoft SharePoint exploit in attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The FBI says hackers are targeting your most private photos, not just your passwords — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Signal adds new security feature to thwart man-in-the-middle attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as U.S. inflation data looms, Harmony exploit rattles altcoins — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM Access — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Cisco ASA and FTD Flaw Exploited in the Wild Can Trigger Remote DoS — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Harmony considers rollback after suspected exploit inflates ONE supply — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- China-linked hackers hit Taiwan in unprecedented ‘autonomous’ AI cyber attack — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Ravencoin hits record low as network exploit puts transactions at risk — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Ravencoin hits record low as network exploit puts transactions at risk — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (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.