The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 22 September 2026
122 events from 35 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 Intelligence76 events
- Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Running Cost Than Opus 5 — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Trump rejects ‘globalist scheme’ to control AI in blow to Burnham — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Motorola expands the reach of its Qira AI with the Android 17 update — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s Muse AI is exploding in popularity—and already drawing heated backlash from another tech giant — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Better prompt caching for GPT-6 — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Beijing and Washington talk about an AI hotline. But who will answer the call? — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Which Data Sources Should You Care About For AI Search? via @sejournal, @chrisgreenseo — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- 20 ways to measure ROI from AI initiatives — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot Gains Early Traction — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Georgia Residents Sue Over OpenAI Data Center — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- What AI slowdown? OpenAI, Anthropic release dueling models as price wars heat up — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Defending against dangerous AI should be a national priority — and we need more AI to do it — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- The backwards AI pacing debate and how far business is from the frontier — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI may be killing influencer’s power over what you buy — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The real AI threat isn’t China, it’s accelerationism — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- This UN week, Bill Gates is touting a new coalition that aims to make AI more inclusive — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Which Fintech Brands Win in AI Search? We Analyzed 68,000 Answers to Find Out — Neil Patel (opens Neil Patel's report in a new tab)Read on Neil Patel (opens in a new tab)
- Pennsylvania’s AI Boom Is Repeating Old Patterns of Exploitation — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Reinventing the customer experience with AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Sponsored Listings Are Spreading Across Online Travel — Just as AI Agents Threaten to Ignore Them — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Realtors use AI more often, NAR 2026 tech report finds — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Relevate launches AIMEE AI assistant for MLSs, associations — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba says it built the ‘most powerful AI chip in China’ as the country races to catch up with the U.S. — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab), Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- MIPCOM Bets On Creators, Brands & AI As International TV Business Readies For Cannes Get-Together — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Where the enterprise AI advantage comes from — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Daily briefing: How to turn a paper into an AI agent — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Goodfellas’ CEO Vincent Maraval Says Michel Hazanavicius Cut Eight Days of Production on WWI Film ‘The Third Hand’ by Using AI — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- AI needs its own accident investigators — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google's AI contribution pilot pays publishers — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Alibaba Unveils Powerful AI Chip as Meta Revives AI Optimism — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- What this machine-learning model with 65% accuracy says is coming next for the 10-year Treasury — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- AI could be a bubble and is not yet making Australia more productive, Michele Bullock says — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Understand a job before you eliminate it—a guide to redesigning work 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)
- Americans are turning to AI to survive a brutal housing market—37% would let it buy their next home with ‘minimal human involvement’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Skills nobody can take’: Meet a 20-year-old with a 4.5 GPA who skipped college for technical school to land an ‘AI-proof’ career — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Launches a Dedicated Mac App for Its Muse AI Assistant — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Report: AI Created Recession-Like Job Market for Some New Grads — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Apple's New HomePad Is a Siri AI-Powered Smart Home Hub Expected to Launch as Early as October — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Australian 40-year economic outlook recognizes ‘AI revolution,’ omits crypto — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA Introduces SoL-Pi: Auto-Research Loops That Cut Coding Agent Token Traffic by Up to 49% — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- San Sebastian Startup Challenge Puts AI, Immersive Tech and Green Production in Focus — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Silicon Data CEO Li on AI Race and Tokenomics — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- CITIC CLSA's Cochran: AI Keeps Risk Appetite Alive — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Cardano joins Solana, XRP Ledger in race to power AI agent payments — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6 — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI cracked the Navier–Stokes challenge. What does that mean for physics? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- 20 countries propose global oversight body to manage AI dangers — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- India’s SEBI Taps AI to Police Traders, Fight Market Fraud — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Generative AI, Microdramas to Take Center Stage at Busan Market — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI sued by Canadian province over role in mass shooting — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Low Expectations for US-China AI Talks — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips7 events
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Halts Data Center Permits in Defiance of Trump as Public Backlash Grows — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- This super-cold microscope could spur a quantum revolution — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Could Abandoned Mines House Pennsylvania’s Unwanted Data Centers? — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy10 events
- Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous trucking company Aurora looks to accelerate toward profitability — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
- Mercedes-Benz signs deal to put Wayve AI Driver in cars within 2 years — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla Full Self-Driving bug falsely flags dirty cameras, demands service — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Waymo riders can now get $2.85 back when pairing a ride with public transit — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Tesla’s active robotaxi fleet in Austin crashes back to 8 vehicles after Cybercab pump — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Waymo is offering transit discounts again, this time with Visa — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Robot fashion models and freediving with turtles: photos of the day – Tuesday — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Space4 events
- AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- NASA chief: I'm only interested in "good deals" from international partners — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- US satellite maker Planet Labs opens Berlin factory as military demand booms — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- The Jet Leg App That Frequent Fliers (and NASA Astronauts) Swear By — Condé Nast Traveler (opens Condé Nast Traveler's report in a new tab)Read on Condé Nast Traveler (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity25 events
- Rogue external MFA providers can steal passwords during logins — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over breach affecting 2.2 million — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Chinese hackers exploit WordPress, Zyxel flaws to steal govt data — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Inside Coinbase’s $250 Billion Playbook for Post-Quantum Bitcoin Custody — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- ShinyHunters claims FBI hack, data theft in PeopleSoft zero-day breach — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- New ClosedQuorum Windows malware uses AI for attack decisions — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Reducing shadow IT visibility gaps with Wazuh — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- D-Link warns of max severity zero-day bug in DIR-822A routers — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New CVSS 10.0 VeloCloud Orchestrator Flaw Actively Exploited in Certificate-Based Setups — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- New Linux Kernel Flaw Gives ARM64 KVM Guests Read-Write Access to Host Memory — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SharePoint Flaw Initially Listed as Spoofing by Microsoft Enables Authenticated RCE — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- White hats outrun Coldcard hackers in 52-Bitcoin evacuation — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- CISA orders feds to patch Zyxel flaw exploited for data theft — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- One Hidden Meta Muse Setting Could Let Attackers Turn the AI Assistant Into a Backdoor — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Zyxel and Veeam Flaws Under Active Exploitation With Command and SYSTEM Access — 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.