The day in AI and tech
Monday 24 August 2026
80 events from 33 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 Intelligence47 events
- Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Gemini can now troubleshoot your Pixel 11 device — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- WildBrain Buys Personality AI In Deal Worth Up To $70 Million — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AI Model Ox Alpha Is Free, Beats Claude Fable, and Nobody Knows Who Built It — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Adding Invisible Watermarks to Claude-Generated Text — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- 1 In 10 Webpages Shows Signs Of AI Authorship, Pew Reports via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Ads adds automated bidding, platform targeting — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini on Pixel 11 Pro testing ‘Device help’ tool — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- Goldman Sachs partner warns of 'huge danger' in letting AI replace bankers' reasoning skills — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- Slack’s New AI Update Wants ‘Everyone to Be a Builder.’ Is Your Job Description About to Change? — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Who is Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s new chief revenue officer? — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How to build an AI content workflow from the ground up — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Ads Launches New Search and AI Max Experimentation Tools via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered PLC Attacks, GitLab Attacks, Stripe Key Leaks and More — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SEOs Are Becoming The Tools Of Their Tools – The AI Slop Backlash via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI search is here, but marketers still call it SEO — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Nearly 3 in 4 Young Adults Think AI Will Reduce Jobs. Here’s What That Means — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- EXCLUSIVE: As Home Sales Slump, RealReports Launches AI Tool to Help Agents Win More Business — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- 21 Leaders on Staying Educated on AI — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure? Watch How to Control Remediation Debt — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The Outsized Shadow: Why 5% of AI Users Are Your Biggest Security Risk — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The AI ‘new era’ illusion: why every boom looks different—but ends the same — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The remarkably human task of giving AI ‘good enough’ taste — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI is taking over logistics’ endless calls and emails — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Architects are sitting on a data gold mine, and Anthropic and other frontier AI labs can’t get to it — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- For 12 Years, I’ve Wanted Apple to Bring Back Aperture. Claude Code Helped Me Do It in a Week — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Paul Banksley: AI Means It’s Time to Think Bigly — Education Next (opens Education Next's report in a new tab)Read on Education Next (opens in a new tab)
- Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- ‘Ab-sol-utely incredible!’ The blockbuster ballet that says Pandora’s box unleashed AI — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- ‘AI Literacy’ — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- AI is coming for your glasses — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- US widens AI-driven investment gap with Europe — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- AI, Skin Samples, and Beauty: Michael Polansky and Lady Gaga Chase the Next Breakthrough in Skincare — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Can Kenya’s AI ambitions coexist with Naivasha’s water needs? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- ERCOT Says Abbott’s Data Center Audit Will Be Done in December — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Organizations Advised to Expand Threat Modeling in Preparation for Quantum-Era Attacks — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Albanese seeks to quell datacentre disquiet as climate expert warns ‘we’ve got one shot to get the rules right’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy10 events
- Beyond China's humanoid robots, a quieter machine revolution is unfolding — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ sold a 66-minute 2.3-mile ride and left a rider 3 miles from his destination — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- The FDA Just Authorized the First Robot That Can Draw Blood. It Comes as America Faces a Phlebotomist Shortage — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla confirms Cybercab launch coming next week — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- This new super humanoid outruns and outjumps any human. Its maker is now worth $51 billion — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Are humanoid robots the future of warfare? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Watch Tesla FSD v14 Lite drive over a giant log without stopping — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab), InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- XPeng robotics raises $900M at $6.3B valuation for IRON robot push — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla’s Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Hits Austin September 3 — Motor1.com (opens Motor1.com's report in a new tab)Read on Motor1.com (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
- SpaceX plans to put Nvidia-powered AI satellites in orbit next year — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- Video: Russia launches rocket into space with military satellite — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity14 events
- Unpatched Calix flaw lets hackers bypass NAT to expose internal devices — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers target WordPress sites in miniOrange auth bypass attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Weedhack Malware Spreads via Fake Minecraft Clients and SEO Poisoning — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ReliaQuest confirms failed data-theft attack after ShinyHunters breach — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- South Korean startup platform breach exposes key management failures — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft: August updates break printing, PDF export in WPF apps — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA orders urgent patching of actively exploited Zimbra flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft shares temporary fix for Windows 11 gaming issues — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Banks, regulators join quantum-resistant crypto transfer pilot — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Term Finance loses estimated $8.5M in vault governance exploit — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (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.