The day in AI and tech
Sunday 23 August 2026
27 events from 17 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 Intelligence14 events
- Dr. Dre Admits He Uses AI To Produce, Doesn’t See It “As A Threat”: “I’m Embracing It” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Why we must stop talking about artificial general intelligence — and instead build ‘pro-worker’ AI — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Ella Baron on AI and the drought – cartoon — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How to use AI to give yourself a head start at a new job — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 63% of Religious Books on Amazon Are Likely AI-Written, Study Finds — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Takes Center Court at the US Open — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Rep. McCormick Warns Against Slowing AI Buildout — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Dr. Dre Says the Only People Who See AI as a Threat Are Those ‘Who Have Trouble Creating’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI fraud costing victims millions of dollars — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Crypto’s next billion users might be AI agents, and they’re paying with stablecoins — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Vercel Introduces ‘Is Agentic’, a Free Agent-Readiness Scoring Tool That Audits Public Websites Using Ora’s 100+ Checks — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips2 events
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- Robots compete in boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab), Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Robot Brains Could Have Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by 2027, ACE Robotics Chairman Says — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Government can bring robotics to life — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese robot beats Usain Bolt’s 100m world record at humanoid games — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Cybersecurity5 events
- Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ToxicPanda Android malware uses VPN permissions to block Google Play — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Iran-linked hackers blamed for cyber-attack that shut down UK power plant — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- UK energy companies on alert after ‘Iran-linked hackers’ shut down small power facility — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers Turned a Google Docs Feature Into a Trap for Security Experts — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (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.