The day in AI and tech
Tuesday 29 September 2026
138 events from 35 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 5 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence106 events
- Trump, top tech firms sign accord to ‘self-police’ AI development — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers — 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
- BBC Boss Matt Brittin Says He Has Seen A ‘Doctor Who’ Episode Entirely Generated By AI: “It Was Pretty Good” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- Robinhood adds AI agents, perps and weekend trading in push to win active traders — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- ‘ChatGPT for the win’: Parents are using AI to skip out on children’s school photo day — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Trump “Very Close” To Unveiling AI Czar, Praises Techlords Inking “Morally Binding” Self-Regulation Pact As Tech Rebranded — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Con Artist Frank Abagnale Warns AI Is Making Financial Fraud Easier Than Ever — Realtor.com (opens Realtor.com's report in a new tab)Read on Realtor.com (opens in a new tab)
- ‘My rogue AI agent texted my ex’: The new meme that lets you pass the blame for your worst behavior — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Is AI Coming to the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit? — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- Hilton Tech Exec Says AI Agents Put OTAs ‘Under Real Threat’ — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Australia news live: Home Affairs orders ‘rapid’ stocktake of government cyber-systems after OpenAI hack — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Yes, You Can Change AI’s Opinion. Here’s How. — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Trump’s new AI website America.gov said Biden won 2020—then the White House made the chatbot stop answering — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic Lost $42 Billion Last Year. It Wants to Go Public at $2 Trillion — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- After months of ‘hell,’ an OpenAI safety researcher suggests way to prevent more rogue AI incidents — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated? — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- PGIM Pushes for AI Limits in CLOs to Avoid Too Much Exposure — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Skift Data + AI Summit Europe: Five Decisions in the Room — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s new dots agent comes with a crew of friendly mascots — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Skift Webinar: When AI Becomes the Travel Agent — How Hotels Get Chosen — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- America gets a chatbot — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Gartner Predicts Most Supply Chains Still Won’t Use AI to Automate Planning by 2030 — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Credit Prizes — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Protesters gather at OpenAI’s DevDay — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Trump to meet tech chiefs including Amodei, Musk and Zuckerberg over AI safety — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Prizes, Nine Judges, and an October 25 Deadline — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Trump rules out joint US-China venture to develop AI — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI DevDay 2026: The biggest news and announcements — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Canada’s Top Engineering Firms Fend Off Concerns Over AI — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- The LLM positioning lag: What it is and how to avoid it — Semrush Blog (opens Semrush Blog's report in a new tab)Read on Semrush Blog (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI researchers voice concerns over GPT-6.1 Astra, delaying the release of this latest model — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- How the AI boom is redefining the global business map — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Meta’s Muse AI sent a YouTuber’s address to a stranger — 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)
- Pacsun Summit Reveals Gen Z Pulls Up the ‘Drawbridge’ on AI and Influencers — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), Meta Newsroom (opens Meta Newsroom's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Kayak Co-Founders Launch Lola — Booking Holdings’ New AI Assistant: Exclusive — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), GSMArena (opens GSMArena's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Marketers are getting AI search all wrong—and it’s hurting their bottom line — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The gut-check questions every leader needs to ask before building with AI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Ad CTR Topped 1% In 4 Markets, Not In The U.S.: Report via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- AI Won’t Kill Us All, But It’s Rewriting How Marketers Have To Work via @sejournal, @gregjarboe — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- ADP: what 77 years of payroll taught us about AI — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- ‘Light Pillar’ Director Xu Zao Readies AI-Themed Follow-Up ‘Easy, My Friend’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- AI Short Film ‘The Gifted’ Wins Inaugural Future Vision XPRIZE Backed By Range Media Partners & Google — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Trump Spurns Iran’s Latest Offer, OpenAI Scraps Debut of AI Model — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic warns of AI ‘existential risk’ as concerns emerge over Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s model | First Thing — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- New campaign disclosures reveal how much American political campaigns spend on AI tools — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Exclusive: AI housing unicorn EliseAI hits $4 billion valuation in new funding round led by a16z and Bessemer — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Europe Is Where Travel AI Has to Prove It Can Work Across Borders — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Making AI an asset, not an expense — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Stop asking writers if they used AI. Just ask them how much — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Holds Back Astra Over Safety Risks, Iran Doubts US Deal Before Midterms — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- DevDay 2026 Recap — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Prime Video International Boss Urges TV Industry to Embrace AI: ‘It Doesn’t Replace Imagination, It Amplifies It’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Amazon’s Kelly Day Says AI Will Unlock “Creative Risk” & Help Free Up Creatives Working On The Next Big Hit — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- How to choose between ChatGPT’s ‘chat’ and ‘work’ modes — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Google On What’s Next In AI Search + 5 Local Marketing Strategy Fixes via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Google On What’s Next In AI Search + 5 Local Marketing Strategy Fixes via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- H Company Releases Holo4: Open-Weight Computer-Use Models That Click, Code and Call Tools Across Desktop, Web, Android and APIs — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What’s next? — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- AI Slop Coming to a Library Near You — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- Dartmouth Provost’s ‘AI Dependency’ Sparks Backlash — Inside Higher Ed (opens Inside Higher Ed's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Higher Ed (opens in a new tab)
- AI Spending Boom Tests Investor Faith in Future Returns — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Madrid Audiovisual Cluster Dives Deeper into New Business Models, AI and Emerging Technologies at Iberseries & Platino Industria — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- China Tightens Travel Rules for Families of AI Talent — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Pope Leo says AI risk concerns not ‘fake news’ — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at the Same $2/$10 Price — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent and Families — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google Rolls Out AI Mode Info Monitoring To All Users Globally via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- How we will do better for Australia — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI axes next model citing safety issues — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- Introducing dots — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips1 event
Robotics & Autonomy6 events
- Tesla secures $30B in new credit lines as it looks to scale Cybercab, Optimus — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Amazon Blocked Meta’s Muse, And Robots.txt Had Nothing To Say via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Hundreds of robots are roaming this Chinese theme park. It’s only the beginning of our humanoid future — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- This hydrogen-powered drone maker believes lasers could be the next big airborne weapon — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Drones Are Already on the Front Lines of Wildfire Response. Robots and AI Could Be Next. — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
- A meeting a day keeps the robots away — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Space2 events
- NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- How to look like a space company without space company clichés — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
Biotech2 events
Energy Tech2 events
Cybersecurity19 events
- Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Custom ChatGPTs push ClickFix attacks to deploy RAT malware — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in after recent arrest — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Former US Air Force members sent to prison over BEC attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- New Spectre v2 attack variant leaks Linux root password hash in minutes — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Automated AI agent used to breach cybersecurity nonprofit DIVD — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Precautionary Shutdown — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Catch threats before they escalate with real-time Identity Telemetry — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- 101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers' WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Kiteworks patches critical flaw, brings customer systems online — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI ‘sorry and working to do better’ after hack of Medicare and other Australian government websites — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk'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.