The day in AI and tech
Thursday 3 September 2026
101 events from 33 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence65 events
- Are Trump’s AI videos just memes or psychological warfare? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Why are AI companies buying books? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The security workers who guard OpenAI and Anthropic could go on strike — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- NYC’s AI ban through grade 8 sets stage for rest of US, experts say — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin Miner Ditches Site for AI Deal That Could Top $1.2 Billion — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s New Weather AI In Search Continues Shift Away From 10 Blue Links via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- EXCLUSIVE: Inside a $25 Million AI-Powered Florida Mansion With 150 Feet of Waterfront — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Bernie Sanders Pushes Bill to Ban Advanced AI Development — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Lei Qiu Says AI Is Moving Into Adoption Phase — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Suno Kills Controversial Mary J. Blige Ad Where She Seems to Endorse the AI Music Generator (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Product Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4% via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3: An Agentic Coding Model That Uses ~20% Fewer Tool Calls and ~25% Fewer Tokens Than Muse Spark 1.2 — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Outages Leave Users Asking How to Work Without AI — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft’s org chart is getting an AI makeover—and it sounds very sci-fi — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Hugging Face attack is a wake-up call about the risks of AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Ollie is betting privacy can win the AI assistant race — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Edina Realty launches AI-powered website — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Google says its AI weather model is getting better — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI-Powered Marketing Is Getting A Bit Too Personal — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Worried your writing sounds like AI? These tools can help — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- When AI Has Nothing On Your Company, It Describes Someone Else via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vows to keep Hugging Face ‘an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem’ — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- The largest school system in the U.S. just banned AI for students through 8th grade — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Nicola Coughlan, Luke Evans & Hugh Bonneville Are Speaking Out Against AI Voice Cloning, But Is The Government Listening? — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- US Trade Gap Widens to Largest Since Early 2025 on AI Push — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The AI doctor will see you soon. We don’t have a plan for that — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- AI works best when it removes work, not judgment — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Should I Block AI Crawlers At Robots.txt Or Server Level? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1 — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Mamdani Imposes One-Year Moratorium on Generative AI in NYC Schools — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- How much energy does agentic AI actually use? One scientist tracked every prompt he sent — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Broadcom Sees AI Chip Boom as It Takes On Nvidia | The Pulse 9/3/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- CEOs are reading fewer books because of AI—and it’s starting to worry them — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI Slop Cleanup Job Listings Up 87%, Report Says via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman tells G20 AI will be as essential as electricity — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Google AI Mode Prices Differ From Product Carousel For Same Items via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Anker’s new MindBase is an AI-powered brain for your smart home — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The Key Podcast: What Happens if We Get AI Right? — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ByteDance Gets $30B Loan to Fuel AI Ambitions | The China Show | 9/3/2026 — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- How AI could kill ‘corporate ick’ — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The Race for Chinese Travel Demand Is Now a Fight to Get on the AI Shortlist — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Fixing the AI industry’s PR problem — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Utopai Studios, DeNA Team on AI-Assisted Animation Projects in Japan (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips10 events
- Data centres are booming in Australia - but at what cost? — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Hundreds gather to urge Scottish government to pause datacentre boom — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data center — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- This EPA proposal on data centers could leave the public in the dark about air pollution — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- There’s No Comprehensive Mailing List for All Texas Data Center Operators — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Trump loves data centers, voters don’t. Of course he’s doubling down right before the midterms. — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Saudi Firm Humain Eyes $2.5 Billion Fund to Build Data Centers — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ‘People are going to get screwed’: Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft discloses Azure revenue as part of major financial reporting changes — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- South Korea's semiconductor exports just tripled year-over-year. Is it too much of a good thing? — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy7 events
- The Cybercab is Tesla’s ‘fork in the road’ moment — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- A Tesla killed a motorcyclist on Autopilot/FSD, Tesla’s own data confirms — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- TCL unveils 11" TCL Tab A1 NxtPaper tablet and a kids watch with a robotic cradle — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon’s Zoox expands its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Uber And Wayve Beat Waymo To London With UK’s First Robotaxi Service — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)
- London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- EXCLUSIVE: Desigual Takes Aim at AI and Robotics in Latest Campaign — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Cybersecurity17 events
- French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000 — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: CEO Phishing Kits, 5K Dropbox Account Hacks, OAuth Traps + 17 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- At least 14 Serbians targeted with advanced spyware — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Critical Cisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Run Code as Root — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- BraZetsu Malware Turns Compromised Windows Hosts Into Criminal Marketplace Inventory — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Your Employee’s Password Appeared in an Infostealer Log. Now What? — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Shai-Hulud's Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here's What That Means — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Ukraine Busts Kyiv Crypto Drainer Ring Moving Up to $1M Monthly — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Coldcard hacker swaps stolen Bitcoin for ETH via THORChain — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Teams, Outlook fail to launch on ARM-based Windows PCs — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member's iPhone — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners — 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.