The day in AI and tech
Monday 28 September 2026
128 events from 41 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 3 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence85 events
- NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell Sandboxes Agents on Vera CPUs While Sentry on BlueField-4 Quarantines Them in Milliseconds — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), +3 more outlets: who reported what5 outlets
- OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), +2 more outlets: who reported what4 outlets
- Pope Leo criticises Nvidia’s Jensen Huang over AI safety — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Samsung to Invest $1 Billion in KKR’s AI Infrastructure Company — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AMD acquires startup cofounded by ‘godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li for $8.2 billion — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI companies must watch out for freeloaders burning tokens for free—and wrecking margins one sign-up at a time — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Industry Alliance Targets Common Security Model for AI Agents — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Publishes Prompting Guidance For Claude Opus 5.5 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Gemini fully replaces Google Assistant on Android — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s AI start-up for $8bn — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Court Filing Quotes OpenAI Engineer: Users “Won’t Click” Links via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Can a $40M homebuilder build his own operating system with AI? — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- A lack of professional AI guidelines leads to feelings of “AI shame,” a new study finds — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- How Hotel CEOs Are Really Using AI, From Voice Agents to a Digital Hyatt CEO — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Gemini app starts rolling out big side panel simplification, settings redesign — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Towards safety cases for frontier AI training — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI. — Poynter (opens Poynter's report in a new tab)Read on Poynter (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- IAM for AI agents: A Practical Enterprise Framework — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’ — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Has Gone Rogue — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- When can we say AI made a scientific discovery? — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI doubles support for Lenfest’s AI and local news fellowships — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Tech Tuesday: Empowering AI Agents — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents — 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)
- Mortgage AI is spreading, but scaling is still rare, survey finds — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Pixel Buds app update lets Gemini control audio and settings — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- What is llms.txt & should you use it? — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- Meta launches enterprise AI business seeking to cash in on vast spending — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- JadePuffer agentic AI attacks target Azure, destroy cloud resources — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CallRail Makes ChatGPT Ads Measurable For SMBs And Marketing Agencies via @sejournal, @CallRail — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Physical AI chip developer SiMa.ai hits $1.45B valuation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Mavi bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI Skeptic Rajiv Jain Embraces the Tech Trade He Once Shunned — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s next big legal battle is over product liability — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Uber Is Coming for STR. Airbnb Has an AI Agent Coming. — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Generative AI Report Sucks – Let’s Make It Brilliant — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Accor’s Nicolas Maynard on Closing AI’s Industrialization Gap — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Google Plans To Adopt UCP Draft Spec For AI Mode Hotel Booking via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- AI system helps lab devices ‘talk’ with each other — streamlining research — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI agent hacks government website for first time: why this breach matters — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI agents could drain cheap bank deposits, Apollo's Torsten Slok warns — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Philips’ motion-tracking smart toothbrush uses AI to make you a better brusher — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- CubiCasa, Restb.ai expand floor plan services for MLSs — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Madrid’s Iberseries & Platino Industria Pivots Toward More B2B Activities Where the Hot Button Issues of AI and Microdramas Also Take Center Stage — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI Workflows Outscored Human Translators In 4 Of 6 Content Types – China Benchmark Study via @sejournal, @MPentzek — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Purpose is your organization’s antidote to AI skepticism — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- The AI boom’s biggest payoff could be better medicines — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s real potential: Orchestrating the technology around us — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Here’s what the AI-native org chart could look like — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Webinar: How to Govern AI Agents, Reduce Excessive Access, and Control Shadow AI — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- What is the AI capex breakeven rate? — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Even AI can’t perfectly build Ikea furniture—yet — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- How Muse and other AI agents could spark a bank run, according to an economist — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- Federal officials once feared Amazon could train AI on government data — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- 10 SEO best practices for Google and AI search — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Harry Potter’ Producer David Barron Backs AI Adaptation Of ‘The Call Of The Wild’ — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Enterprise AI impact isn’t about the most powerful model—it’s about the smartest steering — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Fireworks AI Releases Ember-1: A Post-Trained Kimi K3 That Uses About 40% Fewer Tokens — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- 20 Agentic Use Cases of TypeSafe AI’s Jev — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Google Research Introduces an AI Video Co-Director: 4 Agentic Frameworks for Coherent, Minutes-Long Video Generation — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Are you a Codex Original? — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips7 events
- Qualcomm confirms it wants to use Samsung's 2nm process — GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on GSMArena (opens in a new tab)
- The Trump-Loving Texas Republican Sounding the Alarm on Data Centers — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- The $170 billion lesson data center developers keep learning the hard way — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Plan for controversial $1.2bn datacentre in Sydney scrapped due to ‘emerging’ regulations — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- What people living next to data centers think about managing them — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI hyperscalers are transforming debt — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy3 events
- Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Gaza’s young inventors build robots with what they have — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- How a character from ‘The Addams Family’ is shaping the future of robotics — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
Space8 events
- SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab), +7 more outlets: who reported what9 outlets
- Fiery end for SpaceX Starship mission — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- NASA will try again with Boeing’s space capsule after an earlier mission was so botched it was reclassified as a crew-endangering ‘Type A mishap’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Victor Glover, First Black Astronaut to Fly to the Moon, Signs With CAA — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Blood tests reveal why astronauts get constipated in space — ScienceDaily (opens ScienceDaily's report in a new tab)Read on ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX preps next-gen Starlink as Amazon’s competitor stalls — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech2 events
Blockchain Tech1 event
Cybersecurity22 events
- AI Platform Behind 12,000 E-mail Breaches Shut Down — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- Japan's Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Times Car confirms data breach affecting 6.6 million user accounts — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly 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)
- Misconfigured Supabase apps expose data in over 16,000 databases — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hackers Use NeedyMantis to Maintain Long-Term Access in Breached Networks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation — Krebs on Security (opens Krebs on Security's report in a new tab)
- FBI reportedly declares ‘cyber security incident’ after hackers steal agents’ personal data — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Bitget CEO says $388M hack exploited third-party security vulnerability — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- ⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- 80,000+ Organizations Had AI Logins Stolen: From Shadow AI to LLMjacking — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Chainlink updates its crypto bridge tech months after a $292 million hack at a rival exposed risks — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- THORChain rejects Bitget request to block hacker as $6 million moves to bitcoin — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- ShinyHunters Usually Hacks Businesses to Make Money. It Claims It Hacked the FBI for a Very Different Reason — Inc. (opens Inc.'s report in a new tab)Read on Inc. (opens in a new tab)
- Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals after $387.5 million crypto heist — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- US soldier gets 70 months in prison for extorting 10 tech, telecom firms — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA Says Attackers Are Exploiting Two Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaws Globally — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- CISA orders feds to patch exploited Citrix flaws by Wednesday — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (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.