The day in AI and tech
Friday 25 September 2026
115 events from 31 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 Intelligence76 events
- Pope Leo XIV warns AI could undermine humanity during France visit — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Michigan CEO loses job after posting AI-made image of her family in ‘Lake America’ sweaters — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Macy’s To Use AI for Better Inventory Management — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Jev, an AI Model That Can’t Chat, Takes On Bigger Rivals — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Walmart chief rules out personalised pricing as AI transforms retail — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How Retail and Supply Chain Leaders Are Balancing AI and Labor — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- AI could create a ‘paradise of machines,’ Pope Leo warns in urgent message to the world — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- San Sebastián 10 Takeaways, From Brad Pitt Seducing San Sebastián to AI, Buzz Titles, Deals and Glorious Gastronomy — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Workers are faking their interest in AI to satisfy bosses, report shows — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Federal court allows the U.S. government to label Anthropic a supply chain risk — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- In the era of AI slop this skill will set you apart — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC" — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AI Companies’ Shaky New Plan to Police Themselves — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- How solopreneurs can use AI as a behind-the-scenes assistant — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- US court upholds Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI. Now It’s Getting Worse — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Don’t let the age of AI make you forget the B2B buyer is human — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- What an AI maths breakthrough means for human discovery — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Gateless Smart Underwrite earns AZP Platinum AI certification — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working? — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic rolls out up to $250 in free Claude Code credits, but only for cloud sessions — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The case for embracing AI’s inhumanity — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- How to Build for Travel’s Agentic Future — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Rebuilding as an AI-Native Company — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- ‘Lion King’ Director Rob Minkoff Joins AI-Assisted Film ‘Storm Dogs’ From Tilly Norwood Creator Particle 6 — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI is preparing a $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan with faster Codex — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- With the Rise of AI Agents, SOC 2 Should Adapt or Risk Irrelevance — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Perplexity Trains Its Computer Agent on Real Mistakes With Hint-Guided Self-Distillation — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Turkish Distributor Baska Sinema Boards AI-Generated Feature ‘A Woman Asleep’ for Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Geely’s AI fast charging ‘heals’ EV batteries for 20% more cycle life — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Google AI Overviews Have More Links, But Not All Reach The Web via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Hotels, AI, and Building for Long-Term Economic Value — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- The SOC Doesn't Need to Start Over with Every Alert — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- How do you safely test an AI agent that’s trying to break things? — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- B2B answer engine optimization: How to show up in AI — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- New York City writes bill to rein in AI while insisting it wants to be the ‘AI capital of the world’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Why Apple may be the one Big Tech company to hit its climate goals in the AI era — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Odd Lots: The Decline of Hollywood in the Age of AI (Podcast) — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The most valuable thing AI can do for media isn’t save time — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Japan Regulator Is Boosting Scrutiny of AI Data Center Financing — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Australian PM warns of AI’s ‘furious pace’ after agent breached government site — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action: A 7B Open-Weights World Action Model That Tops RoboLab-120 — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- No product, no problem: investors place big bets on AI neolabs — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Maga base recoils as Trump goes all-in on AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- How can we tackle AI’s financial risks? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- When AI’s moving this fast, who’s protecting us? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Block brings Bitcoin Lightning payments to x402 for AI agents — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft is killing off the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- AI Boom Can Withstand Higher Rates: Goldman's Moe — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Ai Weiwei unveils his epic new Australian work: ‘90% of art is just garbage. Real art questions the existing order’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips4 events
- Russia targeting 'ordinary life' with attacks on Ukraine's data centres, Zelensky says — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Oracle Notice to Weigh on Data Center Debt, Morgan Stanley Says — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Russia targets Ukraine’s data centres — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Can quantum turn ‘magic’ into money? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy5 events
- Tesla ramps Optimus to hundreds a week, but the robots can’t generalize — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- EU delays Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ vote to December at the earliest — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt. — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Waymo's Latest Safety Numbers Sure Make Human Drivers Look Bad — InsideEVs (opens InsideEVs's report in a new tab)
- AI Robots Dance in the Rain as Pingyao Film Festival Turns 10, Honors Ann Hui — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
Space3 events
- After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Rocket Report: Era of cheap launch is over? Astra sets early 2027 target for return — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
- CRISPR could help doctors attack blood cancer without destroying healthy cells — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
Wearables & XR1 event
Blockchain Tech2 events
- Ex-CFTC leader to leave Blockchain Association after CLARITY vote fails — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Blockchain Association sees leadership shift shortly after crypto Clarity Act fizzles — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
Cybersecurity22 events
- Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' data breach — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- Kiteworks urges 6-hour server shutdown over potential zero-day attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ShinyHunters hacked Clop leak site using Grav CMS path traversal flaw — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Bitget clarifies $388M in assets affected by security breach — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Who is hacker whose revelations led to Man City charges? — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after massive Bitget crypto heist — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- North Korean hackers suspected in $351M crypto theft, the largest so far this year — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- PamStealer macOS Malware Adds Live C2 Payload Decryption and Multi-Layer Persistence — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- SlowMist has yet to confirm crypto theft from iPhone Safari attack — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Rydox marketplace admin pleads guilty, faces 22 years in prison — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Bitget Says Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole $351.6M After Backend Compromise — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- KelpDAO sues LayerZero for the largest exploit 2026 has seen so far — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- KelpDAO sues LayerZero, CEO over $292M rsETH bridge exploit — 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)
- Foreign Interference Fears Over Cyberattacks on Academic Blogs — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Cloudflare Fixes Flaw That Let One Container Read Another Customer's Leftover Disk Data — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- WSO2 and Adobe Commerce Flaws Exploited in Attacks, Added to CISA KEV — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer'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.