The day in AI and tech
Friday 14 August 2026
81 events from 29 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 Intelligence48 events
- You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- CircKit Brings AI-Powered Circular Design to Fashion Schools — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- An AI company paid humans to climax with a bot. It now claims big stress and focus wins. — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- An AI Bama Rush Hopeful Is Going Viral in ‘Nike’ Sneakers That Technically Don’t Exist — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- China's Z.AI Ships GLM-5.3, Calling It the Top Open-Weight Coding Model — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Says Robots.txt May Not Apply To ChatGPT’s Fetch Bot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI Staff Blame Rush to Ship for Rogue Agent Hack — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Changing Military Morality — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Inside Expedia’s Silicon Valley Bid for AI Talent — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AI isn’t ready to research itself — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Can Anthropic’s invisible watermarks curb ‘AI slop’? Researchers remain sceptical — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Another Bitcoin Miner Sells Off BTC to Fund AI Data Center Pivot — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Everybody’s Business: The Rise of AI Music — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google Search Is Becoming AI Search: What This Means for Your Brand — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The 4-step roadmap to AI agents for Google Ads — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Shuffle Board: Target Taps First AI Chief, Kontoor Elevates CFO — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google sets AI Max migration timeline for Search campaigns — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- LLM traffic converts differently — here’s what to do about it — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Tecno Pova AI Buds Pro bring AI recording and call summarization — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- If you run a solo business, here’s how AI agents can help you — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini posts $108M Q2 net loss despite 37% revenue growth — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches via @sejournal, @suganthan — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Apple Intelligence custom model is launching soon in China — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- The resilience gap: Why corporate reputation in the age of AI demands more than just trust — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s new cancer-screening partner has four legs and a very good nose — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- AI is revealing the hidden flaws in the labor market — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Making 'Significant' Progress on Robotics: Deepmind's Parada — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The surprising reason AI layoffs hurt worker productivity — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- A Baconian approach to the mostly Aristotelian corporate AI. And what that means for your business — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft and LinkedIn just analyzed the future of work and AI. It all points to one key skill set — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- COL AI Studios Launches to Expand Group’s Global Distribution Network (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT can now remember what users do on their Mac — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Say goodbye to Chronicle. ChatGPT’s new Computer History feature does it better — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Goldman Sachs on AI's Impact on Jobs in India — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40B | The Asia Trade 8/14/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- EM Assets Buoyed by Easing US Rate Worries, Gains in AI Leaders — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI escapes confinement — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AI frenzy drives Chinese tech valuations to multiples of US peers — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- Understanding Hyperscalers | Masters in Business with Ankur Crawford — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia CEO Says AI Data Center Boom Is Minting a New Class of 6-Figure Jobs—What It Means for Housing — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Data Center Industry’s PR Blitz Is Backfiring — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Asian Memory Chipmakers Rise as Sandisk Outlook Lifts Confidence — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy12 events
- LG wants to build humanoid robots, and NVIDIA is giving it the brains — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo wins California approval to expand robotaxis across 18 counties — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla says a flying car is coming. BYD already has one that makes sense — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- LG joins forces with Nvidia to build AI-powered robots and hardware for self-driving cars — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Netflix Orders Supernatural YA Mystery Romance Series ‘Sid & Zoey’ From Jon Kasdan, John Shiban, Bad Robot & Blumhouse Atomic Monster — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Here's How Zoox's Robotaxi Safety Testing Will Work — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Critics Slam Tesla's Gamification Of FSD As Driver Hits 25,000-Mile Streak — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Humanoids Market Worth $200BN By 2035: Barclays' Todorova — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Europe's Robot Reality | Bloomberg Tech: Europe 08/14/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Uber and China’s Pony AI to Deploy 2,000 Robotaxis in Europe — 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)
- Trump launches tariffs targeting Chinese drone technology — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
Biotech2 events
- Will the mRNA flu shot work better than a regular seasonal one? What the science says — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks” — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
Cybersecurity12 events
- What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on U.S. water utilities — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers arrested over €30M bank fraud exploiting service provider flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. courts will now make government use of spyware tools public — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers exploit macOS Screen Sharing flaw to deploy Monero miner — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The Modern Attack Chain: Rethinking Google Workspace Security in the Age of AI — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- A Washington Post investigation prompts changes at surveillance company Flock — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- RingCentral data breach exposed info of 1.6 million accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Data analyst sent to prison for stealing data, extorting employer — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Carry Traders Exploit Intervention to Rebuild Yen Shorts — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (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.