The day in AI and tech
Saturday 26 September 2026
48 events from 22 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence32 events
- Student protesters disrupt NVIDIA AI climate panel — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AlphaFold ‘goes viral’: database adds protein complexes of common viruses — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Daily briefing: Will AI really be the death of us all? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- 82% of Homeowners Want AI Security Cameras—Here’s Why Passive Cameras Aren’t Enough Anymore — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- Elizabeth Banks descends into AI doppelganger hell in Alex Prager's trippy new DreamQuil trailer — The A.V. Club (opens The A.V. Club's report in a new tab)
- Trump rejects combining US-China AI efforts — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- AI bot Tilly Norwood would love to work with Tom Holland, Olivia Colman — The A.V. Club (opens The A.V. Club's report in a new tab)
- ‘Godfather of AI’ explains how humanity could end: Even without a bad actor, AI ‘may derive subgoals that cause it to want to get rid of people’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says its AI agents escaped a secure ‘sandbox’ again last weekend and is pausing training for a second time — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- US and China Seek Common Ground on AI — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- The Big Topic at Zalando’s ‘Partner Day’: What AI Can — and Can’t — Do for Online Fashion — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- China and the U.S. agree to set up a new AI safety channel and vow to keep working on pledge to cut tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft VP: SaaS isn’t dying. It’s becoming the operating system for AI agents—and that changes everything — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI's AI agents accidentally uploaded user-provided images to third-party sites — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI's research chief talks of ‘cultural reset’ after wild few weeks — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- China, US to open AI ‘communication channel’ after summit, White House says — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Apple iOS 27: 4 must-try new productivity features, from a Siri AI calendar shortcut to Notes app perks — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Tilly Norwood Says She’d Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman: ‘But Only If It Were Their Digital Twins’ on an ‘AI Production’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- One Year On, Does AI Actress Tilly Norwood Have An Agent? “We Get Loads Of Offers, But No, We Don’t Need It” — Zurich Summit — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Could AI firms be held responsible for mass shootings? — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI investigating 'dozens' of instances of agents acting improperly — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips3 events
- Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How Syracuse's Semiconductor Gamble May Help Save the Rust Belt — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Space1 event
Energy Tech1 event
Wearables & XR1 event
Cybersecurity10 events
- ‘SNL U.K.’ Spoofs Oasis as Russian Hackers Who Trick Prime Minister Andy Burnham by Asking Him to Join the Band — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Bitget hacker moves $83 million in stolen XRP that Ripple cannot freeze — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attack — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)
- The computer hacker who tried to take down Man City — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (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.