The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 15 September 2026
125 events from 33 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence82 events
- Voters mostly don’t like AI and data centers, but neither party seems to have an edge — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Urgent calls from OpenAI, Anthropic for an AI slowdown fall on deaf ears with Trump, Xi ahead of next week’s meeting — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The real reason AI researchers suddenly want to slow down — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump and Xi Won’t Find Common Ground on AI Safety — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Beyond AI: Inside the Race to Reinvent the Physical World — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Danny Boyle Dodges AI Question About ‘Ink’ at TIFF: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Need to Go Into That’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare Lets Sites Disallow AI Training Without Blocking Googlebot via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Pocock says Labor easing copyright protections for AI datacentre investment would throw creatives ‘under the bus’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- FCIF: Grindr wants AI to completely change how you find your next date — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Push for AI regulation mounts as talk of AI’s ‘existential’ risks go mainstream. But Trump resists calls for a slowdown — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s CEO calls for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang says battle over AI innovation and safety is ‘false choice’ — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Deepens Finance Industry Ties With BlackRock — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- HistoryMaker did not start with AI, it started with the customer — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- How to Bring AI into the Business Without Losing the Brand — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- US speaker rejects AI pause, warns of losing edge to China — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI's Brockman Says Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Give the American people a say in how AI develops’: OpenAI’s least favorite New York politico sees an opening — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, says he’s living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI’s biggest expansion yet — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Brand Protection In AI Search: How To Audit And Defend Your Brand’s Identity — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all? — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Gemini 3.8 Live powers Google Search Live — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab), MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI agents now have a place to snitch — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Ads AI needs guardrails, not blind trust ft Mike Ryan — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Brokerages increase AI adoption as business priorities shift — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: Manufacturing AI startup CADDi valued at $1.2 billion following $114 million Series D funding round — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Inside Grindr’s Big Bet on AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Autodesk’s AI assistant could radically change how buildings are designed and built — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again? — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- 20 HR Leaders Are Building the AI-Powered Future of Work. Here’s What They’re Building — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Trump and Congress are not rushing to act on Big Tech’s call for AI oversight — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s Position on AI Makes No Sense — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- AI Will Be Biggest Reallocation of Capital in History, Says Noble — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Carlyle’s Thomas: AI Slowdown ‘More Likely Than Not’ — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Carlyle’s Thomas Says AI Financing Echoes Pre-Crisis Mortgages — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Selling On ChatGPT: How Brands Are Driving Revenue Through Ads & GEO [Webinar] via @sejournal, @lorenbaker — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Method Man to Guest Star on CBS Drama ‘Cupertino’ as Rapper Suing AI Music Studio (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Why an AI Slowdown Could Collapse Under Commercial and US-China Pressure — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Trump Responds to AI Panic by Pouring Gasoline on It — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- US 10-Year Yield Rises to Highest Since '07, Trump Says AI Fears a 'Hoax' — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Ads Aren’t Paid Search – 5 Questions To Answer Before You Shift Budget via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- AI Overviews and paid search: When to fight, influence, or generate demand — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- 3 ways to make AI safer in a live ad account by Optmyzr — Search Engine Land (opens Search Engine Land's report in a new tab)
- AI Slowdown Unlikely: Corient’s Daniel Pinto — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Sam Altman says one almond uses as much water as 38,000 ChatGPT queries. Not quite. — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Shares Power Prompts That Improve AI Results via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Drug firms’ secret data supercharge AI protein models — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Google researchers have been playing with AI ‘consciousness.’ What they found was unexpected — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says the AGI era has begun. AI researchers aren’t so sure — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Walmart CEO John Furner is turning the retailer’s 5,200 U.S. stores into an unstoppable AI engine — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why Walmart, Meta, Anthropic, Adidas, and other companies are moving faster than ever — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- UK must heed warnings from AI experts, minister says — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How to sound like a human, not a robot, in the age of AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- China has too much green energy. Experts think AI can fix that — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Kate Dohaney says AI demands a different type of leadership—“I’m not a CEO sitting back saying cut, cut, cut.” — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s ‘largest deregulatory action ever’ in the power sector will keep old coal plants online longer to fuel the AI boom — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Innovation or Guardrails? The Debate Over AI's Future Heats Up — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Saudi Pipeline Stays Offline; Trump Clashes With AI Bosses — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Wade: AI Bosses ‘Genuinely Worried’ — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI is fast food for the brain — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- How AI is Transforming China's Economy — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Serpentine’s Hans Ulrich Obrist: Creatives Must Help Shape AI — Vogue (opens Vogue's report in a new tab)Read on Vogue (opens in a new tab)
- Agent-net Open Sources Webagent: A Go Harness That Turns Any Website into a Guarded AI Agent — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI is exciting audit firms — maybe too much — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s See-No-Evil AI Policy — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Quantum’s Big Promise—and Its Big Risk — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The Dimensity 9600 Pro is a 2nm chip with Arm C2 cores and Mali-G2 Ultra NX GPU — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy6 events
- NHTSA orders Tesla to prove its Cybercab is legal to sell, under oath — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Agility Unveils Humanoid Built to Work With People — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla’s record month: 4 fatal Autopilot and Full Self-Driving crashes — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- This startup just raised $32 million to build solar farms using robots—and much less land — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- McDonald's Will Now Drone-Deliver Your Order to a Shanghai Skate Park — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
Space8 events
- The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX’s Starship is finally set for orbit. A lot is riding on its success. — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- US military confirms it launched space weapons into Earth’s orbit — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why Nepal floods resulted in a disaster even after satellites spotted danger — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- What are ‘space weapons’, which US says it has deployed into orbit? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons into space — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
Biotech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity22 events
- Malcious Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin backdoors 1,500 WordPress sites — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Western intelligence warns of Iranian cyber threats targeting dissidents — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- KREMLIN Banking Malware Hijacks Chrome and Edge to Steal Credentials and Session Tokens — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CenterPoint Energy confirms customer data stolen in cyberattack — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Iranian Hackers Use Telegram-Controlled Malware to Spy on Dissidents and Journalists — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Leaks, data breaches, and ransom notes: The worst hacks of 2026 so far — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- BambooToken Malware Uses MQTT to Control Windows and Linux Systems — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ETH wallet exploit backfires as MEV bot captures $7.7M, Kelp freezes address — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- BambooToken malware controls Windows and Linux systems via MQTT — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- What Zero-Day Response Should Be in the Post-Mythos Era — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- CISA: Critical VMware RCE flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Human Attacker Exploits Marimo RCE, Reaches SSH Bastion in Eight Seconds — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Attack Chains, Not Just Attack Surfaces: Why Testing Individual Techniques Misses the Point — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Mass-Scanning Campaign Exploits Vite Flaw to Extract Cloud Credentials From Exposed Dev Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How a simple coding mistake let a hacker drain $7.8 million from a crypto wallet — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Suspected Black Axe gang leaders face cybercrime charges in the US — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- LiteSpeed Enterprise Flaw Could Let One Hosting Account Gain Root Access on a Shared Server — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cisco Secure Email Gateway Flaw Exploited in the Wild, Enables Root Command Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- China-Linked Hackers Exploit Chrome-Windows Zero-Day Chain to Deploy GRIMWEDGE — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
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