The day in AI and tech
Thursday 13 August 2026
105 events from 30 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 3 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence75 events
- Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +5 more outlets: who reported what7 outlets
- Why Anthropic’s Claude Watermark May Be A New Text-Marking Method via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab), GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Google Gemini Passes 1B Monthly Users, 63% Now Use Voice via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- AI agents are sitting through students’ online courses, and colleges are struggling to stop them — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- 'Bitcoin Is Burning': Red Team Turns to Chinese AI to Find Flaws — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- In a New Test, AI Mortgage Assistants Got Nearly 1 in 4 Answers Wrong — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Chat Logs Are Unhinged — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Winklevosses’ Gemini Posts Another Loss, Revenue Increases — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Risk From AI Reaches Beyond Private Equity — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- New Coldwell Banker Affiliates president speaks on AI, rates, luxury market — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- This AI Startup Made a 24-Hour AI News Channel. Who Wants This? — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- LinkedIn users are ‘time traveling’ by adding AI keywords to past jobs on their profiles — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI is losing its second executive this week — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Companies are charging ahead with AI—even though middle managers are not ready for it — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify: AI referrals up 197%, but organic search still leads traffic — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Sam Edelman on the Two Legends He Admires in the Shoe Business + Where AI Misses the Mark — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Clarity AI Scrape-to-Referral insights report — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work. — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Sieving the Pixels: Detecting AI-Generated Media in 2026 — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Public Bitcoin miners cut hashrate 13.4% as AI infrastructure revenue grows — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Chatbots argue against election conspiracy theories, then willingly illustrate them — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Former Luma AI Exec Launches LA-Based Production Outfit Matriarch — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Xiaomi unveils HyperOS 4 with a new glass look, UI customizations and more AI — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Entry-Level, White-Collar Jobs to See 'Massive' AI Impact, Says Virginie Maisonneuve — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- KetteQ Launches Its “Free-Range” AI for Supply Chains — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Does Google even want to win at AI? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Who Vets AI’s Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Only 1.1% of news publisher visits come directly from AI: Study — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Comu’s tiny AI recorder can turn your meetings into slides, emails, and action plans — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Most AI visibility gains are just technical debt repayment — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Will this AI company’s pivot away from ‘stop hiring humans’ work? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Apple wants to pay publishers to use their content in Siri AI — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab), Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- How Do I Know If AI Overviews Are Taking Clicks From My Site And What Can I Do About It? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1 — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Do you know what your AI is doing right now? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why companies fail at AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Shoppers are Using AI Agents, But There is Caution — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Pixel 11 Pro XL vs. Galaxy S26 Ultra: Do you want smarter AI or more powerful hardware? — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- AI keyword research: How to use free chatbot tools — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- AI Overviews: How Freshpet Stands Out in SEO & GEO [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6 — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- The next frontier in AI governance isn’t stronger guardrails. It’s fire brigades — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI and Cursor Launch “Grok Bot” Autonomous AI Teammates Across Desktop and Mobile — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- How kids feel about AI, in their own words — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- A Viral AI Property Tax Hoax Is Targeting Some Homeowners—and It Could Cost Them Real Relief — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- AI Applications for Oil and Gas Companies Worsen Climate Pollution — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Tencent Slides Amid AI Capex Concerns | The China Show | 8/13/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- This GitHub project wants to strip AI watermarks from your content, and things are getting interesting — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Legal AI start-up Legora seeks funds at more than $10bn valuation — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Wealth managers cut fees to win AI’s paper millionaires — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Blue-Collar Workers Are Training AI To Take Their Jobs — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR2 events
- Researchers built a wearable patch that measures cholesterol through sweat instead of drawing blood — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Wearables are getting a taste of much-needed minimalism — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity20 events
- Ethereum Foundation pivots away from Poseidon in post-quantum plan — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously — 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)
- Akira hackers disable EDR with Safe Mode, steal data but fail to encrypt — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Flock Safety tries to curb police abuse of its surveillance cameras after scandals — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Donald Trump empowers US private companies to conduct cyber-attacks — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- White House Lets Private Firms Hack Cybercriminals—At Their Own Legal Risk — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI has opened up big holes in cyber security — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Nearly 14,000 crypto holders face security risk after data breach — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin Companies Want Help From AI Labs to Guard Against Hackers — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Donald Trump enlists corporate America in fight against cyber crime — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- In a first, US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft wants you to ditch SMS passwords as AI makes phishing harder to stop — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release — 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.