The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 25 August 2026
115 events from 32 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 Intelligence70 events
- Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Record Short Bets Hit China’s AI Model Duo on Fierce Competition — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The future of peer review requires AI support, not AI bans — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Amend copyright licences to halt AI misuse and reassert human control — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Colorado’s AI proposal raises new compliance questions for lenders — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Cursive’s unlikely AI-fueled comeback, explained — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Your brain on AI — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- These Researchers Just Shrunk an AI Model and Somehow Made It Smarter — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Pope Leo XIV on AI’s new ‘form of domination’: it risks becoming a tool of ‘economic colonialism’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- A troubling recent rogue AI incident is just one reason why the U.K. AI Security Institute deserves far greater scrutiny — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Builders FirstSource bets $25.3 million on AI build-cycle scale — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- UWM launches Mortgage Matchup plugin for ChatGPT — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool, I Read The New Language It Speaks via @sejournal, @suganthan — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Mistral and HUMAIN Are Building 'Sovereign AI' in Saudi Arabia — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- 13 ways leaders align AI use with values — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI visibility has two jobs: Execute SEO and mobilize the organization — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Google brings Gemini Omni video creation to Google Ads — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Art and algorithms at Sotheby’s — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Google Brings Developing-Topic Link Carousels To AI Mode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab), Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI-Flagged PH & Pericarditis; Lagging Cardiology Workforce; Multi-Day Heart Rhythms — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Over 1 million people clicked LinkedIn’s ‘seems like AI slop’ button as the platform fights to keep ‘dead internet theory’ from becoming reality — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Australia’s music industry bans AI-generated songs from official charts — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI-detection tools have made huge leaps forward — how good are they? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Andrew Garfield Opens Up About Playing Sam Altman in ‘Artificial,’ Says OpenAI Is Doing ‘Damage to the Soul of Humanity’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- National Land Realty launches AI-powered property search — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Extremely Fast and Accurate Transcription with Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Stability AI Raises $76 Million in Funding Round Backed by Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music and Electronic Arts (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI Revenue Slowdown Would Be the Market's Big Test — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face hack exposes the open-weight AI cybersecurity paradox — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face hack exposes the open-weight AI cybersecurity paradox — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Australia Bans AI-Generated Tracks From Official Music Charts to ‘Promote the Human Nature of Artistry’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- The U.S. and the EU regulate AI differently — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The AI adoption phase is over — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Can AI discover new biology? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Warren Buffett says this 1 skill will multiply your success. In the AI age, it’s more valuable than ever — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Reports Indicate Google’s Spam Update Focused On SEO AI Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Jury Convicts Las Vegas Man of $24M AI Crypto Mining Ponzi Scheme — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Calendly gets a rippling, gloopy rebrand for the AI age — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- AI is giving Trivago and its CEO Johannes Thomas a new playbook on how to beat back disruption — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Luxury’s Latest Cyber Risk? AI Agents Going Rogue — Vogue (opens Vogue's report in a new tab)Read on Vogue (opens in a new tab)
- Webflow’s New OpenAI Codex Integration Simplifies Site Management via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The full stack behind abundant intelligence — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- The real AI divide in the mortgage industry — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Australia’s music charts ban AI-made songs amid backlash over Madonna cover — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Songs created by AI banned from Australia's music charts — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- JPMorgan eases approach on lending against shares to court AI’s new wealth — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How Korea's $10 Billion K-Pop Industry Is Turning to AI — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips4 events
- X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Data Center Developers in Texas Plan Massive New Gas Power Projects — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia employee charged with smuggling advanced chips into China — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy10 events
- Can Tesla FSD Take You Up The Steepest Dirt Road In America All By Itself? — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- The U.S. Can’t Catch Up to China’s Robots by Banning Them — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- The exoskeletons are coming (to a store near you) — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Dubai VDX becomes world’s first purpose-built eVTOL vertiport — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo Is Headed To Germany — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Chinese robot Tiangong clocks sub-9-second 100 metres in Beijing — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw. — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
Space4 events
- SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- MIT tech powered the Artemis II livestreams — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- University of Utah to Close Satellite Campus After More Than 25 Years — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech2 events
- U.S. state banking associations plan to launch their own nationwide blockchain network — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- BNB Chain activates Pasteur hard fork to strengthen bridge security — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity22 events
- LACMA data breach last year exposed social security and medical data — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- A new stamp on cyberfraud prevention — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Mass arrests in global crackdown on West African cyber-crime networks — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breaches — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway’s government digital services — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Levi’s Cybersecurity Breach Puts Apparel Industry Risks in Focus — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Hospital operator Nutex Health says data stolen in cyberattack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Dozens of Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Linked to Crypto-Stealing Malware — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- From Fake Workers to Account Recovery: The Growing Identity Verification Risk — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Marimo Notebook Flaw Could Run MCP Commands Before Cells Execute in Edit Mode — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers breached over 270 Zimbra servers in ongoing attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Mirage2FA Surge Hits 4,500 US and EU Companies, Abusing Microsoft 365 Login Flows — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 24 npm Packages Abuse unpkg Mirrors to Host Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA Pages — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- E4del and PINHOLE RATs Turn FTP Banners Into Dead Drops for Malware Commands — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Frontier AI: Vulnerability Management's Systemic Revolution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Police arrests dozens of suspects in global cybercrime crackdown — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Target miniOrange SAML Flaws That Can Grant WordPress Admin Access — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Monad proposes wallet upgrade that could survive lost keys and quantum attacks — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Actively Exploited Oracle WebLogic Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Access Critical Data — 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.