The day in AI and tech
Saturday 22 August 2026
28 events from 11 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 Intelligence18 events
- The Developer’s Guide to NeMo Guardrails for Enterprise AI Safety — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15% — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Has Made Bitcoin Software a Target—This Group Is Fighting Back — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- 90% of executives say AI hasn’t boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Study Shows AI Hitting Paychecks, Not Payrolls — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese AI Models Gain Ground on Price and Use — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Spending Spree Comes With a Catch — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Investing in AI for More Jobs, Less Pay — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI has young writers between a rock and a hard place — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The veteran Fortune 500 CEO who turned an 80-year-old AC company into an AI darling — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Powering the cloud after 60 years underground: Ormat’s geothermal pivot to AI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy2 events
- Usain Bolt’s 100m record broken at World Humanoid Robot Games — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab), BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Robot horse and rider steal the spotlight at Chinese conference — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
- China’s new moon mission could unlock secret of lunar ice: Why that matters — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech2 events
- US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- 'Most Companies Are Struggling': Executive Shares An Uncomfortable Truth About Solid-State EV Batteries — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity3 events
- Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Named Pipes Under Attack: Securing Windows Interprocess Communication — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (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.