The day in AI and tech
Friday 18 September 2026
108 events from 33 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence74 events
- Gemini app for macOS adding send and read iMessage integration — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic brings in Accenture for AI safety testing — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Rapid patient-specific neural networks for X-ray to volume registration — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030 — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How fast are you ageing? Ask AI — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Jina AI Releases jina-ocr-v1: A 3.4B MoE Document Parser With Built-In Speculative Decoding for Low-Budget GPUs — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft exec warned AI could create a ‘doom loop’ for the internet — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The Military’s Bogus AI ‘Almost Started a War’ With China: Report — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Think you can spot an AI-generated ad? 83% of consumers got it wrong — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Navigating AI, Super-Serving Audiences, Engaging the Creator Economy and More at Variety’s 2026 Entertainment and Technology Summit — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion — 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)
- Checking A Page Is Part Of A Retrieval Pipeline For AI via @sejournal, @chrisgreenseo — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- US and China Vie For AI Lead Before Trump- Xi Summit — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- PrismML Releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9 GB Apache 2.0 Model Retaining 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B Performance — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Your Brand Needs An AI Accountability Document, A School District Beat Big Tech To It via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Global AI safety is hinging on U.S.-China cooperation, but they see each other as the problem — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Gavin Newsom advances AI ‘kill switch’ in response to safety fears — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- RFK Jr. Eyes Wireless, RF Radiation; Cancer by the Month; AI for Cancer Symptoms — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Lina Khan on Doomer Panic and Ending AI Exceptionalism — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Family offices are clamoring for AI investments — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Disney Hires Its First CTO: Karandeep Anand, Former CEO of AI Chatbot Start-Up — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic and the golden rules of business — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- This AI toothbrush wants to find trouble before your dentist does — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why every AI launch now makes the backlash worse — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Skift Global Forum Preview: IHG’s Chief Customer Officer on Making Hotels Legible to AI — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- I’m so mad that I love Orion’s $2,195 AI mattress pad — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Other Way AI Impairs Our Thinking — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Kill Switch! Newsom Moves To Lasso AI With Oversight Executive Order; “We’re Not Waiting To Act” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- ‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- “An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- What is agentic SEO? 8 workflows run on a live site — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- South Africa Holds Off on AI Rules Pending Global Watchdog View — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Semrush MCP use cases: 16 prompts for Claude or ChatGPT — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare's AI training block now spares Googlebot — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is helping to develop the next version of itself — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Xi’s edge over Trump on AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Google’s AI Payment Pilot Vs. Cloudflare & Microsoft Models via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Prada Taps Into Agentic AI For Procurement — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Google just built the infrastructure for agentic commerce — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Who gets to decide how quickly AI moves? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- In the battle between AI optimists and doomsayers, no one is the winner — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Best Open-Source Agent Harnesses for Local LLMs in 2026 — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: A 1M-Context Omni-Modal Model Built Around Agentic Audio-Video Understanding and Tool Use — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ‘Just ask Grok’: How ISIL is using Big Tech’s AI to build bombs — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AI systems don’t have a drive to survive. Here’s why — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Salesforce Agentforce: Bridging the Enterprise AI Gap from ‘Vibe Coding’ to Battle-Tested Orchestration — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Report: Student Protections Haven’t Kept Up With Higher Ed’s Adoption of AI — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Insilico Medicine’s Alex Zhavoronkov bets China and AI can deliver the drug industry’s next breakthrough — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Joining the dots between big AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Everyone thought AI would replace junior engineers. We’re hiring more of them — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why Nick Knight Used AI to Create H&M’s Interactive Show — Vogue (opens Vogue's report in a new tab)Read on Vogue (opens in a new tab)
- The west must hurry to catch up with Ukraine on AI combat — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Medical AI has a proof problem — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI breached by researchers using Anthropic models — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Battling Misconceptions and Figuring Out Use Cases: Entertainment Leaders Navigate AI’s Place in the Industry — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips7 events
- Heterogeneous photonic integration of single-crystalline nanomembranes — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Oracle’s $18bn data centre debt under strain amid local pushback — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- British data centre group Nscale files for $35bn US listing — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Says Kevin O’Leary—But There’s a Quantum Catch — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Blackstone Lands Loan for Data Center Cooling Firm Acquisition — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- In Savannah, Georgia’s utility regulators faced public wrath over data centers — Grist (opens Grist's report in a new tab)Read on Grist (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- Zipline’s Valuation Could Nearly Triple as Drone Delivery Rules Remain Unsettled — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- XPeng shops its self-driving tech to automakers — Tesla found no takers — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Cloudflare Will Write Your Robots.txt, And It Has A Point via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Waymo to launch robotaxis in Singapore, its first Southeast Asia market, by 2028 — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Biotech2 events
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity17 events
- Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Gyazo server flaw exploited to steal 23.6 million user records — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading towards US coast — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Fake LastPass Authenticator GitHub repos push new Rapuncel infostealer — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Crypto tech provider Haruko hit by cyberattack affecting 15 clients, some funds lost — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Secure enterprise sharing with access reviews for Microsoft 365 — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Teams will let admins block custom file extensions — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Webinar: Which Google Workspace security controls actually matter? — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft fixes bug behind ‘Defender Antivirus is turned off’ alerts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding Agents — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft fixes broken copy and paste for Excel 2016 users — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstall — 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.