The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 18 August 2026
102 events from 38 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 Intelligence70 events
- Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Pennsylvania Cracks Down on AI Data Centers as Backlash Grows — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Mozilla Tests an AI 'Smart Window' in Firefox—But Only If You Opt In — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- NVIDIA Releases TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview: Hugging Face Checkpoint to Native C++ Inference in Two Commands — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI says it will expand monitoring of model testing after hacking incident — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Oscars Budget, ‘Engaging’ With AI and Hot Memorabilia: Inside the Academy’s Annual All-Members Meeting (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- David Sacks says Anthropic’s Dario Amodei wants a ‘DMV for AI.’ But plenty of industries thrive despite safety regulation — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Travel Has Started Weighing AI’s Worth — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Why many real estate AI rollouts fail — and how to make them stick — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Why the best AI strategies combine prediction and reasoning — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Markets Confident OpenAI Releases Its Next AI Model in Weeks — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Trump Family Crypto Firm Tied to Chinese AI Models US Government Called a Security Risk — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need? — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- He hates AI… but he’s still using it — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Survey: Organizations Moving AI Workloads Away from Public Cloud — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ATTOM expands AI platform with specialized agents, MCP server — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI data center deal with Nvidia comes in $145 billion lower than reported—signaling concerns of artificial demand for chips — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- What Really Happens If China Wins the AI Race? — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Roger Avary’s ‘Paradise Lost’ & Alex Proyas’ ‘Heaven’ Have U.S. Theatrical Commitments As AI Outfit Ex Machina Strikes Cinema Deal On Slate — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Trump-linked World Liberty says WorldClaw is independent after questions over AI model access — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- What 9 months of AI Overview data and 51,000+ tracked events reveal — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- BofA Sees Nvidia Trading at Up to 50% Discount on AI Risks — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin miners’ AI pivot pays off, but mining could revive with one twist — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- 9 AI Search Myths, Debunked by 15 Million Data Points via @sejournal, @ahrefs — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- True Fit Introduces Fit Intelligence Layer for Agentic Commerce — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Where to Hide From an AI Crash — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT is getting a teen version, and I have a lot of questions — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meet SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh): A Zero-Config, Zero-Trust P2P Network for AI Agents — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- What We Can Learn From Evolving ChatGPT Fan-Out Queries via @sejournal, @lilyraynyc — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Mozilla is bringing AI to Firefox—but only if you want it — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI was supposed to put white-collar professionals at risk. Instead, another group is shrinking fast — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI "Mind Viruses" Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The most important AI habit I have is making one phone call a day — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Get Your Business Found & Chosen In AI Search [Free SEJ Live Event] — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI coding tools unlock small software — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- More than 200 AI-generated ‘local news’ sites just went dark — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to ‘expand human potential’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- AI phobia is America’s new consensus — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Why AI systems are most useful as designers of new scientific tools — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- We still don’t know how people are really using AI — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The Trailblazing School on the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence — Education Next (opens Education Next's report in a new tab)Read on Education Next (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks — NPR (opens NPR's report in a new tab)Read on NPR (opens in a new tab)
- Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Mortgage AI is evolving. The next step is connecting the systems behind it. — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- AI Helped Researchers Win NIH Grants. Will Science Suffer? — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- AI Boom, Debt Surge Fuel Long Bond Pain | Insight with Haslinda Amin 8/18/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Einstein the musician, AI prophets and more: Books in brief — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Briefing Chat: Anthropic rolls out new AI watermark — will it make a difference? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Credit card issuer Synchrony announces partnership with OpenAI — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR Introduces CUDA Agent: A Large-Scale Agentic RL System for CUDA Kernel Generation — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How NVIDIA scales expertise with ChatGPT Work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Texas Has 'No Real Protections' Against Data Center Impact, Says Gina Hinojosa — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Blackstone-Backed QTS Kicks Off Data-Center Bond at Hefty Cost — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20% — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy8 events
- Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- Russian Threats Won’t Stop the U.K.’s Drone Deliveries — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ rams through bollards weeks after ‘impeccable’ claim — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla is finally launching the Cybercab — let’s hope it’s ready — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- This China Firm Runs a School Teaching Robots Human Tasks — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Robot helpers and flying houses: Edinburgh fringe tips for families — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla grows Robotaxi fleet by 50%, Einride gets a partner, and China goes BIG — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla’s Cybercab is about to launch — and we don’t get it — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
Space4 events
- Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China's space program — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The role of the astronaut is in flux — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Rocket Lab Expands Footprint to Six Global Pads With New Alaska "GHOST" Complex — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity14 events
- Bitcoin Wallet Maker BitBox Says AI Found Severe Flaws in Firmware — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Clop created custom web shell for Windchill data theft attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The White House wants private companies to hack cybercriminals. What could go wrong? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Lennar Mortgage discloses data security incident — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Your Controls Block Known Attacks. What About the Behavior? — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE — 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.