The day in AI and tech
Saturday 19 September 2026
52 events from 21 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 Intelligence41 events
- Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), +5 more outlets: who reported what7 outlets
- Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Trump vows to create an ‘AI Force’ and nods to justice system after rejecting calls to slow down industry. ‘Rather, we will cherish it’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenClaw Releases 2026.9.5 With Atomic Updates, Plugin Hot Reload, Conversation Sharing, and Expanded GPT Live — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws when they coordinated AI slowdown, reducing value of subscriptions — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Trump says he will create ‘AI Force’ with new ‘AI czar’ — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Trump announces ‘AI Force’ as alarm grows over technology’s advance — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- TypeSafe AI Releases Jev: A System One Model That Returns Typed, Calibrated Decisions Instead of Text — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- As AI companies get closer to ‘recursive self-improvement,’ this physics professor calls full autonomy ‘the worst idea in the history of humanity’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- What AI Anxiety Looks Like in China — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Trees Are Watching’ Review: Eva Green Fights A.I. Generated Horrors in Self-Serious Misfire Boarded by Martin Scorsese — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- 'We have lost control': Crypto pioneer warns AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone???? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic billionaire cofounder Jack Clark studied literature, not code—and says liberal arts degrees will win in the AI age — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google AI Payment Pilot, Search Profiles At 10,000 – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AI Agents Test the Limits of Human Oversight — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Doomsday AI: panic, regulation and the China fear — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Calling viral AI actress Tilly Norwood? Agree to a face scan first — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- East Asia: How AI is changing the way we bid farewell to loved ones — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- The Gates Foundation is spending $400 million on AI in schools. Teachers warn it could ‘end up widening’ the divide it’s meant to close — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Launches Muse for Mac: A Personal AI Agent That Works Across Your Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Who gets credit in the AI era? OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Know your agent’: Banks face a new compliance challenge as AI agents shop and pay on their own — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’ — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- GGUF vs GPTQ vs AWQ vs EXL2: LLM Model Formats Explained (2026) — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Australia has a secret weapon in the race for AI compute — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How should investors position for the robot apocalypse? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI Releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0: A Speech-to-Text API Claiming 2x Accuracy Over 1.0 at $0.10 per Hour — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Google’s Gemini agents hacked three companies in new AI safety incident — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- ‘VisionQuest’ Creator Terry Matalas Says No GenAI Was Used In Making Of Show: “There Hasn’t Really Been A Need” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips2 events
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Cybersecurity8 events
- Russia reports ‘powerful’ cyberattacks on second day of parliamentary vote — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild — 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.