The day in AI and tech
Sunday 16 August 2026
42 events from 16 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence30 events
- Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Stripe clinches over $7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Dario Amodei admits AI suffers from a crisis of trust, saying people worry companies or governments are ‘cooking up some new way to screw them over’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- A Real-Life Terminator: AI Store Manager Fires Human Employee — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Why are sandwiches more regulated than AI? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AI notetakers have entered the meeting. Here are 5 ways to get the most out of them — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Making Workers More Productive. So Why Aren’t Companies Performing Better? — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google's Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Health AI Should be Assistive, Not Autonomous — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Meta and Google just got beaten by an AI giant you might not expect — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes — 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)
- Deepfake Anthony Albanese used in celebrity scams duping Australians out of $7.4m, Asic warns — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI Perfection Fuels a Return to Looking Human — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Gen Z is eyeing up ‘secure’ healthcare jobs to AI-proof their careers, but be warned: Chiropractors, doctors and paramedics are the unhappiest workers — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Godfather of AI’ says billionaires like Elon Musk are right about the future of work—but he predicts mass unemployment is on its way — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ActivTrak CEO: What 120,620 workers reveal about AI maturity — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Business Owners Have a New Security Problem: AI Agents With Keys to Company Secrets — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Candace Bushnell on AI, creativity and why originality still wins — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Short Chatbot Prompts Are a Beginner Habit. Skilled Users Turn Them Into Whole Workflows — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Jimmy Wales: ‘AI can generate answers. It still can’t earn trust’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft exec on Southern Europe’s big AI moment: skills — not technology — will determine who leads the region’s AI future — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI cheating, leaked papers and marking errors: how exam protests went global — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- AI companies may be gobbling up old books, and I really hope they aren’t destroying them — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Singapore Inc hopes AI access will stop finance high-flyers moving to Hong Kong — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Intel may be cooking up a budget Panther Lake chip for gaming handhelds — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- This Quantum Discovery Turns Schrödinger’s Cat Into Something Far More Bizarre — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
- TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Robots Are Here. The Real Challenge Is Getting Workers to Trust Them — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity6 events
- Large-scale DDoS attacks disrupted Threema secure messaging service — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New AmnesiaStealer macOS malware hijacks browser sessions via remote control — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers' order info — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- How Trump Left America Vulnerable to Cyberattacks — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- ‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (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.