The day in AI and tech
Thursday 20 August 2026
117 events from 33 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence64 events
- Help us understand how AI has changed the way you teach — The Hechinger Report (opens The Hechinger Report's report in a new tab)Read on The Hechinger Report (opens in a new tab)
- Samsung's One UI 9.5 might use AI to let you design custom widgets, leak shows — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT can now read your Apple Messages chats on Mac — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- Expedia Cuts Eight Executives as It Reorganizes Around AI — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Apple Music to Label AI-Made Tracks Later This Year — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Case Against “AI” — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-DSpark Draft Models That Deliver Up to 3.18x Faster Decoding Without Changing Model Outputs — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Some AI Recommend A Piece of Garment. This Picks Out Entire Outfits. — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- The AI industry is getting better at spotting dangerous behavior. It is less clear that labs know how to stop it. — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Bridging the Gap Between AI and Product Data — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia looks well placed to benefit from the next stage of the AI boom — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin miners pour billions into AI as capex outpaces revenue 15-to-1 — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Ukraine Planned to Swarm Moscow Airports With AI-Guided Drones — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- What to make of OpenAI’s pause on its march toward superintelligence — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Can AI solve the energy problem it created? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Debates over AI consciousness are a trap — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Meta AI can now analyze and optimize Meta Ads campaigns — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- New American Funding partners with Kastle to deploy AI agents — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- 3 phases to build authority and earn AI citations — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI Music Companies Udio and GRAI License Swath of Patents From UMG-Backed Music IP Holdings (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Welcome to the AI crisis in math — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Op-Ed: AI’s Last Mile and Why Your Supply Chain ‘Pilot’ Never Makes It into Production — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: What If AI Doesn't Destroy Humanity or Save It? — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- This obscure FTC proposal exposes the widening fight over what AI can say — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google adds new AI Max testing and planning tools — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: This $100 million startup wants to give companies AI employees — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The next AI money grab: Charging for editorial corrections — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Flock's New AI Police Tool Can Track Drivers Without a Name or License Plate — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI wants to monitor AI abuse without forcing customers to hand over their data — Digital Trends (opens Digital Trends's report in a new tab)Read on Digital Trends (opens in a new tab)
- China Is Rapidly Catching Up to the US in the AI Race — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The case for ChatGPT for seniors — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The generation that is most comfortable with AI might surprise you — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Why Upwork’s CEO insists the AI jobs apocalypse isn’t happening — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Auditing Preference Biases and Fine-Tuning Language Models with Direct Preference Optimization on Anthropic HH-RLHF Using TRL and LoRA — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Nick Bostrom on What Happens if AI Solves All of Our Problems — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: What Happens if AI Solves Every Problem (Podcast) — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Companies are spending trillions on AI. The C-suite doesn’t know who is in charge of it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI-forward vs AI-native: The label matters less than what the AI actually knows — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- With New AI Requirements and Courses, Colleges Eye AI Fluency — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The slow sucking sound of AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI-designed “intrabodies” could unlock new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and MND — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- How ChatGPT Work helps Stampli move ideas to market — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Indianapolis Bans New Data Centers Until 2028 as Backlash Spreads — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Bitdeer signs $400M AI cloud computing deal for Malaysia facility — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- KKR Data Center Chief Vaults to Prominence With Nvidia Pact — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Observation of conformal field theory spectra in a quantum simulator — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy10 events
- US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla says FSD v15 is a ‘step-change,’ Optimus sells in 2027 — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Anker SOLIX 2kWh power station $600, Segway Navimow i105N Robot $140 off, WORX 2-in-1 reciprocating saw $73, more — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Humanoid robots take centre stage in China-US tech race — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon’s drone deliveries are landing in pools and ponds — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- You can now ride a Chinese EV in the US as Waymo opens Zeekr Ojai to all — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo’s New Robotaxi Minivans Are Now Taking Paying Passengers — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Thales Selling Bonds to Help Fund Deal for Sea-Drone Maker Exail — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
Space5 events
- A neighborly feud is playing out in Starbase, Texas. Cards Against Humanity wants designers on its side — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Reporters and military duo held at gunpoint by security at US space force base — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
Energy Tech3 events
- Geely Is Testing A Solid-State Battery With Over 621 Miles Of Range. It Could End Up In A Volvo — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Geely prepares revolutionary 500 Wh/kg solid-state EV battery that could beat diesel — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- The Download: polycrisis support networks and a hydrogen gold rush — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity26 events
- Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Iranian Hackers Tied to $6 Million Bitcoin Extortion Charged in Massive Cyber Campaign — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Palo Alto Networks and NTT DATA team up on a $1 billion AI security push — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How MSPs can catch phishing attacks email filters miss — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Cybersecurity firm unveils crypto phishing campaign targeting 885,000 phone numbers — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Citrix urges admins to patch new NetScaler flaws as soon as possible — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA warns of hackers exploiting critical MLflow vulnerability — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Cybersecurity Threat Delays Start of Classes at UT San Antonio — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
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