The day in AI and tech
Monday 17 August 2026
106 events from 35 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 Intelligence60 events
- Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- How to Train AI Models After OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google Ads will use generative AI to resize Performance Max video ads — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- ChatGPT draws more paid clicks from Google than any other top destination — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Minnesota Says xAI's Grok Created 'Marketplace for Digital Sexual Violence' — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for AI security push — 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)
- AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Open AI Model — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s Answer to Rogue Agents and Hacks Is More AI, Not Less — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google Search Console Generative AI Performance Report in Search data bug — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Google Scoops Up Spirit Airlines’ Data in Bankruptcy Sale to Train AI — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console via @sejournal, @suganthan — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Ginny Marvin on Smart Bidding, AI and why PPC fundamentals still matter — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Agentic AI Moves from Pilot Phase to Production, Bringing Governance to the Forefront — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Lets You Turn Off Visible Watermarks In Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Google Search pauses AI-generated images within AI Overviews — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Llms.txt V2 Adds Formal Markdown Linking For AI Agents via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Inside ChatGPT’s Source Preferences: What Query Fanouts Reveal About AI Discoverability — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- The ‘Next Adobe’ Will Use GenAI—But It Will Not Create Slop — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- What Stripe's $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Actually Means for AI — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Credit card issuer Synchrony partners with OpenAI for ChatGPT shopping — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- AI companies are buying used books by the thousands. Some may be destroyed for training — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The AI visibility index: Which brands are vanishing from AI search? — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- MPA And TikTok Owner ByteDance Reach Agreement On Restricting IP Use In Deepfakes — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Motion Picture Association Strikes Deal with ByteDance for IP Protections in AI Video, Image Models — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Cava CFO on growth, AI and why price hikes aren’t on the agenda — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Inside ChatGPT’s retrieval stack: The index, cache, and pages it actually reads — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- An FT column was condensed with AI. It crossed a novel ethical line. — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- Google: Subject/Object Entity Order Affects AI Answers via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Are you invisible to AI? Here’s how to check — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX Finalizes $60 Billion USD Acquisition of AI Coding Startup Cursor — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Eliminates Workspace Tab-Switching With Live Google Cloud Sync — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- SEO content: A complete guide for search and AI — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- AI fears are fueling the ‘handmade’ branding trend — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Slow math: Kids may learn more when AI makes them review mistakes — The Hechinger Report (opens The Hechinger Report's report in a new tab)Read on The Hechinger Report (opens in a new tab)
- DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How to do prompt research for AI SEO — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Your AI is emailing my AI—and nobody’s in charge — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Not every AI-in-education tale is a horror story. How the world’s leading education company makes AI that’s actually useful for students — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The U.S. government wants allies to pick a side in the AI race — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: OpenAI, Hugging Face and the AI Danger (Podcast) — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The mortgage industry’s AI problem is not what you think it is — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba Reports World-Beating 3 Billion Downloads for Qwen | The China Show | 8/17/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Defender’s Window — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s New AI Watermark Sparks Backlash From Claude Subscribers — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- The new AI super-rich are reshaping the market for jets, yachts and cars — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The next China shock will come from open-source AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips2 events
- Vitol Makes Push Into Data-Center Infrastructure With US Deal — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy13 events
- Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Nevada caps Tesla’s Vegas ‘Robotaxi’ fleet at 10 — it asked for 5,000 — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- This AI startup is using self-driving car technology to bring 3D video to live sports — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The US is trying to kick foreign robots out, but the local supply chain might not be there yet — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla FSD v14 swerved and try to drive me into a ditch for no reason — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Exclusive: SoftBank Is Investing $200 Million in Autonomous Construction Startup Gravis Robotics — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex” — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- I drove Tesla FSD, Rivian Autonomy+ ‘hands-free’ driving systems. Here’s how they compare — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Self-Driving Trucks Are Already Hitting The Road In California — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- LimX on China's Robotics Development — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Space3 events
- Rocket Companies adds Sarah Watterson to board — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- This stunning NASA map tracks our summer of wildfire smoke — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity26 events
- Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Your Mac might have a screen sharing problem, and hackers already know about it — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Research Studies Suggest AI Is Accelerating Familiar Cyber Attacks — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Certighost and the Privilege Hiding in Your Certificate Authority — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- How a bug in Coldcard’s code went unnoticed for years, leading to $100 million in hacked funds — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers Are Abusing a macOS Screen Sharing Flaw to Secretly Mine Monero — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: VMware Exploits, Windows 0-Day, MCP Attacks, Browser Hijacks and More — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Windows Server 2022 reaches end of mainstream support in 60 days — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Harmony plans rollback, wiping 109,000 transactions after ONE exploit — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Pirated Copies of 'The Odyssey' Are Hiding Crypto-Stealing Malware — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Israel’s largest crypto broker Bits of Gold hit by data breach affecting 200,000 customers — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- How MCP Servers Can Expose Enterprise Secrets — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Unisoc VoLTE Video Call Exploit Chain Can Give Attackers Full Android Kernel Access — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- SafePal Bitcoin Wallet Data Breach Stokes Fears of Physical Attacks — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft working on Defender patch for ShieldBreak zero-day — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Suspected China-Nexus Actor Exploits VMware vCenter Flaw, Deploys Babuk-Derived Ransomware — 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.