The day in AI and tech
Thursday 24 September 2026
129 events from 35 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. One event, marked with its number of outlets, has a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence78 events
- OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab), +4 more outlets: who reported what6 outlets
- Xi Urges AI Cooperation WIth US — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI to unveil GPT-6 Cyber model, plus a first-of-its-kind product to help deploy it — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI breach of Australian government linked to wider AI hacking campaign — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Australia news live: Paterson says PM’s AI hack timing not a coincidence; Gen Z going without for a house — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, New Lawsuit Claims — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Entry-level tech jobs in NYC are being cut in half by the AI boom — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Executives are using AI to communicate better. There’s just one problem. — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Meta's New AI Toy Is a Keychain That Watches, Listens, and Never Blinks — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- The U.S. and China are quietly talking AI guardrails—even as Trump publicly rejects them — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- NHTSA investigates comma.ai’s openpilot over 5 crashes that killed 3 — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- LLMs Are Time Machines That Don’t Tell You How Far You Went via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- BottleCap AI Releases ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B: 37.2% Fewer Thinking Tokens at a 0.86pp Accuracy Cost — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- AI Can Now Doxx Your Anonymous Accounts? Here's What’s Going On — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own ‘pain,’ disturbing study finds — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump Stance on AI an 'Extremely Naive Position,' Says Sen. Michael Bennet — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- US and China presidents discuss cooperation, trade and AI risks — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- As the coding boom fades, AI is forcing colleges and computer science grads to adjust — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Why Australia chose the world's biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The AI agent revolution has moved a big step closer — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research? — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Apocalypse or golden opportunity? Why the AI freakout might be useful — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Can AI Be Regulated? — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini can now call businesses for you so you don’t have to wait on hold — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- What AI oversight looks like if Democrats take Congress — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- This Florida brokerage built an AI prospect so agents can practice before the real call — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Talk to My Agent: What Smarter AI Means for Amazon Sellers, Daydream Shoppers, and JD Sports — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Tech’s mass layoffs are hiding a much scarier problem, and AI is uncovering it — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Search Console Adds Multimodal Filter For Image-Based Searches via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Deal: How AI is Changing the Fan Experience — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Meta puts its AI assistant on a keychain — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AI Hacks Health Network; White House Drops NIH Plan; RFK Jr. Makes Millions off MAHA — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s Muse AI Charms can interact with each other — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Elliptic Wants Every Cop to Read a Crypto Wallet in Seconds—With AI — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Cathie Wood's ARK teams with Securitize to tokenize venture fund with OpenAI, Anthropic stakes — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s Meet-Cute With Climate Denial — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- EU's financial regulator to make AI and tokenization a supervisory priority in 2027 — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- First Thing: Trump welcomes Xi to Washington amid tensions over trade, AI and Taiwan — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Windows 11 KB5124010 update released with 46 changes and fixes — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Recalibrating Travel: What AI Changes, and What It Doesn’t — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- AI adoption fails on mandates — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- 5 tips for building an AI tool to address worker shortages — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI is testing society’s stabilization layer — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump says he wants to leave AI ‘exactly where it is’ ahead of Xi meeting — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Secrets Sprawl Is an Identity Problem That AI Just Made Impossible to Ignore — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- What the ‘Godfather of AI’ Thinks Humanity Should Do — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- AI is dominating the conversation at Climate Week — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- San Sebastian’s Creative Investors’ Conference: 10 Takeaways From AI to ‘Obsession,’ YouTube and Why International Movies Could Dominate the Oscars — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Logitech's Blue Yeti 2 Modernizes the Classic Streaming Mic With AI Noise Canceling and a 3D Proximity Sensor — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: AI Is Upending Social Media Professionals (Podcast) — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Proxy Adviser Glass Lewis Merges With Clarity AI: ESG Investing — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI for Me, but Not for Thee — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- The silent failure mode: What happens when your AI model quietly gets worse — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Silicon Valley AI Academy Seeks ‘Main Character’ Students — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System One Model That Scores Agent Actions Up to 9× Faster Than Jev — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI CEO: Tech companies don’t ‘have all the answers’ on AI policy — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Issa Rae Is ‘Never Going to Stop’ Using Her Power for Good, Even as Mergers and AI Disrupt Hollywood: ‘This Is All Men’s Fault’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Brian Chesky Commits to Launching an AI Agent in 2027 — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Agentic AI Is Raising Travel’s Tech Bill — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- A Coding Guide to TypeSafe AI Jev: Typed Decisions, Calibrated Confidence, and Speculative Fan-Out with a System One Model — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs call for global AI regulation at UN — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips7 events
- Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Texas Electric Utility Only Considered Gas to Power $10 Billion Meta 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)
- Apple will keep paying Qualcomm royalties for its patents — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Google To Train 25,000 Veterans in Skilled Construction Trades Amid Data Center Boom — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Launch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy7 events
- Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tesla ‘FSD’ sped in 55% of Brussels 30 km/h zones ahead of EU vote — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo’s driverless cars continue to crash less often than people — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo says it has stopped 841 injuries in 271 million autonomous miles — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Lowe's is launching a drone delivery service in partnership with DoorDash, Alphabet — CNBC (opens CNBC's report in a new tab)Read on CNBC (opens in a new tab)
Space4 events
- Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- NASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of South Pole — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Poland says fire at Starlink station is sabotage as Denmark warns of rising Russian threat — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR7 events
- PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- These smart glasses have been recalled for overheating temples causing burns — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- This app is a smart glasses creep detector — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Teams up With BLACKPINK's LISA for Exclusive Smart Glasses Collection — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Connect 2026 Unveils Lightweight VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio and Next-Gen Specs — Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab), WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on Hypebeast (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Introduces New VR Glasses With Access To Content From YouTube, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+ & More — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Meta announces new lightweight virtual reality glasses to one-up Apple’s Vision Pro — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
Blockchain Tech2 events
- U.S. commodities firms can invest in tokenized assets, use blockchain records: CFTC — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- SoFi tie-up shows stablecoins can provide alternative blockchain settlement rail — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity23 events
- Bitget confirms $351M security breach, suspends withdrawals — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Bitget Hacked as $350 Million Vanishes From Crypto Exchange Wallets — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- MacSync malware uses public iCloud calendars to deliver new payloads — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New Carbonato malware uses AI agents to hijack exposed Docker hosts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA issues election infrastructure security plan 40 days before midterms — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Interlock ransomware claim triggers lawsuit against NFM Lending — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Crypto casino Duelbits goes offline after $7 million hot wallet hack — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Hacked Ukrainian Sites Serve Fake Cloudflare ClickFix Lures for Psychedelic Stealer — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- FedRAMP VDR & VER: Daily Scans Are Only the Beginning — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers now exploit critical Roundcube flaw in code injection attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Corp MDM Spyware Targets Logistics Firms, Steals New SMS and Redirects Calls — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Brooklyn man sent to prison for 12 years for stealing $16M in a Coinbase phishing scheme — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- CISA: Ransomware gangs now exploiting critical TeamCity flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- EU financial watchdogs warn quantum computing poses imminent threat to blockchain encryption — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- 17,000 URLs Reveal How ClickFix Turns Trusted Websites Into Malware Traps: Report by CTM360 — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft fixes bug that broke Windows File History backup feature — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Attackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-87902 Within Hours of Disclosure — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66 — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Bitcoin’s ‘last resort’ quantum-safe solution just got 79% cheaper: StarkWare — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens 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.