The day in AI and tech
Sunday 6 September 2026
34 events from 19 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence17 events
- Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Authors push back as publishers and agents seek share of Anthropic settlement — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- At Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates Compares Lack of Control Over AI to HAL in ‘2001’: ‘You Could Say “Please Shut Down,” and It Would Say, “OK, I Took That Under Advisement, But…”‘ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is Shockingly Good at Almost Everything — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Talent War Is Heating Up, and Google DeepMind Is Feeling It — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Leaving the Screen and Changing the Physical World — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- I Made My Most Important AI Agent Take an Exam. It Failed — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Skin cancer detection tools powered by AI are improving. Not everyone is benefitting — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Already Making Us Less Human — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- An Alien Mind — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Restaurants have been serving up fake food ads for decades—AI slop is just the latest special — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- UBS demands new junior bankers show AI proficiency — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips1 event
Robotics & Autonomy7 events
- Survey Sunday: will Cybercab transform mobility, or be just another car? — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla Cybercab hits the road — and a snag — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla's Cybercab Is Finally Here. So Is The Competition. — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Here’s How Tesla FSD Handles Europe’s Tight City Streets — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Zapier CEO Wade Foster Built a ‘Robot Staff.’ It Briefs Him, Challenges Him, and Drafts His Emails — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- YOON and Mattel Reconfigure Barbie With Cyberpunk Aesthetics and a Robot Companion — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
Space6 events
- Europe has its first commercial orbital rocket — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- European SpaceX rival launches rocket into orbit — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Moonfish’ Director and Stars Lucy Liu and Morgan Spector Break Down Their Black-and-White Animated Film About Isolated Astronauts And Why It’s an Allegory for ‘The Current Human Condition’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- German company launches rocket as Europe enters satellite race — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity3 events
- Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner — 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.