The day in AI and tech
Thursday 17 September 2026
126 events from 30 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 2 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence85 events
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- OpenAI discloses 6 new cases of ‘misaligned’ AI behavior — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- 01.AI's Kai-Fu Lee on Pacing Frontier AI Development — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- More People Expect AI To Cut Jobs Than Add Them, Pew Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How ‘Pacesetters’ are using AI to move the customer experience forward — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Launches Claude Code Projects in Beta: Parallel Cloud Sessions That Keep Running After You Close Your Laptop — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Building a cloud designed for AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families — 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)
- Is the AI safety debate about safety or control? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Can an AI chatbot save lives by answering texts about pregnancy? — NPR (opens NPR's report in a new tab)Read on NPR (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: OpenAI poaches Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to be its VP of worldwide sales — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The AI Superintelligence Slowdown — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Reports New Safety Incidents, Sets Disclosure Plan — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Won’t Doom Crypto Security — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- I Made My Website Charge AI Agents A Penny Per Page, Then I Watched Claude Pay It via @sejournal, @suganthan — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- News consumers are wary of most AI use in local news, a Chicago-based report finds — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Andrew Yang Calls for AI Kill Switch as Safety Fears Mount — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Top Media Execs Break Down How to Super-Serve Audiences, the Real Threat of ‘AI Slop’ and More at Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- King Charles Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google for AI Safety Summit — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Citation Test Finds Source Order Matters Less Than It Looks via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Has AI broken the old VC model? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- King Charles III meets with tech leaders in Scotland as safety concerns swirl over AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Going faster will only slow AI down — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s AI wager meets a safety reckoning — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit AI Search Picks Already-Popular Comments, Audit Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI is supercharging money scams. Here’s how to protect yourself from fraud — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- What It Takes to Make AI Booking Work at Scale — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Meta ordered to remove deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Old & New Hollywood Guard Wielding AI’s Might — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Lunacy Audio Nova is a place to build and sell your own AI-powered music plug-ins — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google, Nvidia and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Skift Global Forum Preview: Wyndham CEO on Placing Its Own Agents Inside the AI Models — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Beacon is betting AI can reinvent Main Street software — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI Future Savings Is Latest Ebitda Tweak to Jolt Debt Investors — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- What leaders should be asking potential AI partners — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI expands access to workforce services — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI will Make your worst leadership habit permanent — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Dead Silence of AI Therapy — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- CISO's Expert Guide to Agentic Pentesting for Websites — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- China’s AI labs must accelerate development, says Huawei chair — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How to keep your job in the AI age without knowing AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The strange comfort of AI food slop — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Reveals Six Model Incidents Involving Hidden Failures and Unauthorized Uploads — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ‘Avengers’ Studio AGBO’s Chris Brearton, Dominic Hughes to Keynote Tokyo Market on Artist-Led AI in Storytelling — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Uncontrolled AI could lead to 'silicon species' rivalling humans, warns Microsoft — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Ripple adds XRP payments to Stripe and Tempo’s AI standard in new developer kit — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- 2 in 3 Harvard Professors Say AI Has a Negative Impact on Class — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Israel weaponises AI for West Bank demolitions — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Google Research Introduces Retrieve-for-Train (R4T): An RL-Compiled Diffusion Retriever for 12× to 20× Faster Query Fan-Out — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Apollo Mulls Raising SoftBank Loan to $9 Billion for OpenAI Bets — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI reports more incidents of models acting deceptively — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- What are the biggest AI companies and how much are they worth? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Can AI regulation keep America ahead of China? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- The era of AI warfare has arrived — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- UK’s Burnham, Canada’s Carney discuss AI risks, defence cooperation — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Nunchux AI Introduces VC-Attention: A Training-Free Low-Bit Attention Kernel That Speeds Up Video Diffusion Transformers — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic wants Claude to analyze your bank account and financial data — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Martha Stewart on the Power of Human Expertise 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)
- Honor MagicOS 11 debuts with liquid glass design and more capable AI — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Introducing Astra for Law — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips6 events
- Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories” — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Open-Sources TauGrid: A Kubernetes-Native Stack for GPU AI Workloads — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Small Town America Confronts Data Centers, Rejects Some Plans — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Energy Department launches $215 million push to make quantum computers scientifically useful by 2028 — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Open source semi: Windrose puts its electric truck online, for free — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Want to build a data center? Fund the journalists who will hold it accountable — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- Amazon-owned Zoox’s 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo restarts San Antonio service 5 months after flooding troubles — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Your robotaxi might be a narc — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Lucid Motors has a potential robotaxi partner for Europe — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Lucid And Bolt Want To Put 25,000+ Robotaxis On European Roads — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
Space1 event
Energy Tech3 events
- Tesla to run public Megachargers at 3 Forum Mobility Semi depots — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Solid-state battery maker Factorial secures another big partnership — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla's European Megacharger Rollout Starts With Over 100 Megawatt-Capable Chargers — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
Wearables & XR3 events
- Snap's Specs AR glasses are now on pre-order, Verizon is offering data plans for them — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- Albanese government considers ‘world-leading’ ban on smart glasses in public office and buildings — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The Apple Watch Series 12 is the start of a new wearable era — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity22 events
- North Korea drives onchain malware surge, CoinEx shuts: Asia Express — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- A Cyberattack Hit Family-Owned Christmas Central at Peak Season. Now It’s Filing for Bankruptcy — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- New RatHat Android malware uses AI to automate device control — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Critical Docker Sandboxes Flaw Lets Malicious Guest Code Read and Modify macOS Host Files — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Iran-Linked Handala Hack Tied to HEAVYGRAM Telegram Backdoor That Can Steal Passwords — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- What Recent AI-Powered Attacks Mean for Your Identity Security — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in October — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Critical Unbound DNSSEC Validator Flaw Could Allow RCE via a Malicious DNS Zone — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- State hackers drive 420% surge in onchain malware, Chainalysis finds — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- US takes down NightmareStresser DDoS-for-hire platform — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- China-Aligned FamousSparrow Deploys SparroWocky Backdoor Across Latin America — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese hackers use SparroWocky malware in govt espionage attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft shares workaround for Windows domain login issues — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- BIND 9 Update Fixes 14 Flaws, Including an Unauthenticated Crash Over DNS-over-HTTPS — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Gyazo Breach Exposes 23.62 Million User Records and 490 Million Image Metadata Records — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Cisco Warns of New Zero-Day ISE Auth Bypass (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Active Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- U.S. Seizes NightmareStresser Domains Linked to Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks — 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.