The day in AI and tech
Monday 21 September 2026
98 events from 33 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence68 events
- The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Robin Williams’ Daughter Calls for Fans Creating AI Videos of the Actor to ‘Have Some Shame’: ‘Leave Him Out of Your Delusional Bulls—’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Report: AI May Be Eroding the Very Skills Employers Need Most — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Tom Cruise Says AI Is ‘Coming and It’s Going to Happen,’ but ‘People Want to See Real Things’: ‘Keep Creating’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Australia news live: Albanese signs declaration with world leaders urging human control over AI; city of Sydney bans smartglasses — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Burnham to call for global effort to control threats posed by AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Tom Cruise Earns Applause With Six-Minute Monologue On Why Art Beats AI In Filmmaking: “There Is Nothing Like Human” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- KKR Bets on Korea AI Supply Chain After Record $3 Billion Deals — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Infrastructure Accounts for More than Half of Worldwide AI Spending — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Trump’s new ‘AI Force’ comes at a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI's Role as Research Assistant Calls into Question Ownership of Scientific Discoveries — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- The Real Reason Chinese AI Is Winning the Global South — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ‘They must be doing it for ulterior reasons’: Jensen Huang says AI leaders are ‘irresponsible’ for scaring the public with ‘doomsday narratives’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- What Is VVV? The Privacy-Obsessed AI Token That’s Up 3,000% in 2026 — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- How To Find The Sources Shaping AI Answers In Your Industry via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- xAI Launches Grok 4.7. It's Bigger, But Late to the AI Frontier Party — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Using AI isn’t the advantage. Rethinking work is — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Merriam-Webster’s new words say a lot about our AI doomsday fears — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Is your company’s AI getting smarter every day? It should be — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- World leaders gather at the UN amid wars, AI warnings and doubts about its future — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. and China propose AI risk notification mechanism ahead of Trump-Xi talks — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify CEO Warns AI ‘Slop Grenades’ Shift Work To Coworkers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. proposes a ‘notification mechanism’ for AI incidents that affect national security — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google Lighthouse Adds Audit For AI Agent Resource Discovery via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Agentic Commerce Is Not The Next Voice Shopping, But It Is Still Unproven via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- AutoScheduler.AI Platform Orchestrates All Functions in a Warehouse — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- NAR wins Meta 2026 award for AI ad automation — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- iPhone owners can now submit a claim in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI lawsuit — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- What’s the US–China AI ‘hotline’ that Trump plans to pitch to Xi Jinping? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Inside Kazakhstan’s push to become a regional AI centre — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Becoming ‘AI native’ might not be as profitable as you think. Unless your company does it right — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Ex-Remington CEO Is Building an ‘AI-Native’ Hotel Operator: Exclusive — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall” — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- How To Build Local Pages AI Systems Can Find And Trust via @sejournal, @lorenbaker — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall” — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)
- Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Research Shows Google AI Mode Sends Less Clicks & Is A Poor User Experience via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Professors Are Tearing Their Hair Out Over AI Detectors — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- 12 top AI tips from high performers — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Building standards for the next phase of AI — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)
- AI citation outreach: a Semrush & Claude workflow — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- We co-led the UN’s dialogue on safe and secure AI. Here’s what needs to happen now — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- This Ivy League college is thinking more like Google to help students and alumni find work they love in the AI economy — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI Search Tools Need More Than Speed. These 3 Factors Separate the Best — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030 — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Moderna’s Bob Langer and AI pioneer Yann LeCun join board of Cellular Intelligence, bringing AI into medicine via a Parkinson’s drug — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- StepFun Launches Step 5 Preview: A 600B-Total, 27B-Active MoE Model With 1M Context for Long-Horizon Agentic Work — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- US and China discuss AI safety plan ahead of Trump-Xi summit — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Lex in depth: Anthropic at $2tn isn’t far-fetched — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- BlackRock's Vavrek: AI Hardware to Drive EM — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Kurt Campbell: US-China AI Talks Won't Limit Beijing — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- US and China agree to dialogue on AI ahead of Trump-Xi meeting — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost at Comparable Accuracy — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Datacentres in Victoria to be banned in residential areas — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy4 events
- UN Chief Guterres calls for ban on ‘killer robots’ — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla Cybercab Inherited One Of The Most Annoying Things About Owning A Tesla — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- Tesla’s Cybercab exposes a robotaxi emergency-response problem — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Toyota Is Installing 400,000 Robots, But Humans Still Matter — Motor1.com (opens Motor1.com's report in a new tab)Read on Motor1.com (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
- Scientists create a needle-thin brain implant that can do three jobs at once — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Wearables & XR2 events
- AMC's Wearable 'Street Fighter' Popcorn Bucket Lets You Wear Guile's Iconic Flat-Top — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Avant-garments: the wild world of wearable art – in pictures — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity18 events
- Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- BigCommerce alerts merchants of data breach linked to Ribon apps — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA alerts of active exploitation of three Linux kernel flaws — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Flights halted at three US airports as watchdog warns over hacking threat — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026 — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft fixes broken Excel copy and paste for all Office users — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- FBI's CJIS v6.1: What Security Teams Need to Know. — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft reminds admins to migrate Entra ID users to passkeys — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall” — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft: September updates break File History backup feature — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors — 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.