The day in AI and tech
Sunday 13 September 2026
49 events from 24 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence38 events
- Could AI really kill us within a decade? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Questions mount over what an AI 'slowdown' would look like — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI whistleblower Jacob Coxon agree: Something terrifying could happen in a matter of months — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Trump downplays AI risks after dire expert warnings and calls to slow development down — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Donald Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for an AI slowdown — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- What are the five pros and cons of artificial intelligence? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AI Isn’t Replacing Knowledge Workers. It’s Making Them More Powerful — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Are HR Platforms Becoming Extinct? AI Agents Are Changing the Game — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Corporate profit forecasts are topping expectations to an unusual degree. AI is a big reason why. — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- The companies that own the customer relationship will ultimately beat those that simply own the best AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: ‘Nobody on that list gets that job’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Therapists Explore a Hybrid Future With AI — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google Admits Search Console Reporting For AI Search Is Inadequate via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- I run an organization dedicated to collective grieving. I recognize a familiar dynamic with AI in the workplace — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- It’s All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic chief urges slowdown in AI development to safer pace — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- In the age of AI, L.L. Bean is betting big on brick-and-mortar shopping — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- AI Companies Love to Tell Us How Dangerous Their Products Are. This Time They Mean It — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Faced with less compute and fewer tokens, Chinese AI labs are tightening the gap with the U.S. by just being more efficient — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Black Lake founder Yuxiang Zhou pitted an AI agent against his top sales coach. His most experienced salespeople chose the AI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How AI is opening up spectrum space on crowded airwaves — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- PwC shakes up Indian operations as AI threat looms over consulting sector — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- The anti-AI portfolio: fountain pens, Warhammer and film cameras — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ‘NAZA’ Review: Israeli Military Accused Of Depraved Indifference To Palestinian Life, Using AI To Kill In Gaza – Venice Film Festival — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’ — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips1 event
Robotics & Autonomy3 events
- Zürich Airport deploys L4 autonomous shuttle – WITHOUT a human monitor — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Cybersecurity4 events
- Quantum-proof blockchain: why math, not machines, holds the key — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ‘It’s really embarrassing that this is still a possibility’ — AI could exploit a flaw in Georgia’s voting equipment and match voters to their ballots — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate 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.