The day in AI and tech
Thursday 1 October 2026
107 events from 32 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. 2 events, marked with their number of outlets, have a page of who reported what. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence69 events
- Suno's Mikey Shulman on the AI Music Landscape — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Kelly Clarkson’s AI Hot Take Sparks Tons of Online Hate — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Fortune 500 Chief People Officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’ — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- 'Shameless' Actor Noel Fisher on AI in Hollywood — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Is Now Ready to Dress You With Virtual Try-on — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- AI’s biggest players promise to police themselves at the White House — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- ‘The P&L Doesn’t Lie’: Hotels See More AI Costs Than Bottom-Line Gains — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Why Brookfield Residential put data governance ahead of AI — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- Doctors Push Back on RFK Jr.'s AI Comments — MedPage Today (opens MedPage Today's report in a new tab)Read on MedPage Today (opens in a new tab)
- AI Leads 2027 Educause Top 10 — Campus Technology (opens Campus Technology's report in a new tab)Read on Campus Technology (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Kelly Clarkson Says ‘I Love AI’ but AI Artists Should Not Be on the Same Music Charts as Humans — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- 10 Animators to Watch on AI, Animation’s Future and Why the Human Hand Still Matters: ‘Nobody Else Has Your Point of View’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab), Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Two 23-year-olds used AI to create a daily audio briefing. It’s now the top news app in Argentina. — Nieman Lab (opens Nieman Lab's report in a new tab)Read on Nieman Lab (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Over 70% of Americans are concerned about AI’s existential risks, polling shows — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells) — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Cohere Releases Embed 5: How It Compares to Voyage 4 Large, Gemini Embedding 2, and OpenAI — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- How AI is reshaping everyday life in China — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews — 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)
- The eternal complement — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5 — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab), Hypebeast (opens Hypebeast's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
- Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Kargo Launches Karlo: AI Media Buying for Small Businesses — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- The FTC has a plan for regulating AI—without creating new rules for AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- How to spend $25 billion on science: OpenAI’s staggeringly rich research charity gets under way — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- When It Comes to AI Adoption, Fashion Apparel is Ahead of the Curve — WWD (opens WWD's report in a new tab)Read on WWD (opens in a new tab)
- Introducing Olmo-core 3: Open, scalable training infrastructure for large MoEs — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- AI risk remains low for most construction jobs, NAHB finds — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free? — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- How AI Anxiety Turns Into Extremism — Foreign Policy (opens Foreign Policy's report in a new tab)Read on Foreign Policy (opens in a new tab)
- AI Changed Your Buyer Faster Than Your Business Can Adapt via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Audible’s new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Why ServiceNow built a startup inside itself to take on AI-native rivals — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Google Gemini Adds UTM Parameters For Referral Attribution via @sejournal, @martinibuster — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- What Are Common Structured Data Mistakes That Hurt AI Visibility? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1 — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Look past AI’s hype cycle to understand what sticks — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- An AI sovereign wealth fund isn’t progressive — it’s techno-imperialism — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan — MIT Technology Review (opens MIT Technology Review's report in a new tab)
- Where to Find the Exact Phrases That Get Your Content Cited in AI Search via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- It’s time to retire the ‘stochastic parrot’ definition of AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI ‘reviewing’ report of failed hacking attempt against Canada’s gov’t — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Google AI Pilot Pays Some Sites Under 0.1% Of Ad Revenue via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Before your borrower’s AI agent calls mine: Three questions mortgage servicers aren’t asking yet — HousingWire (opens HousingWire's report in a new tab)Read on HousingWire (opens in a new tab)
- NVIDIA Releases Kumo Tabular: Open Tabular Foundation Models That Predict New Rows in a Single Forward Pass — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- This group is missing out on crucial AI safety conversations — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Ben Affleck on AI and Hollywood Economics — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Ben Affleck Doesn’t “Worry About SkyNet” When It Comes To AI; “It’s Another Form Of Computing” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- How ‘Effort Signaling’ Became Fashion’s Antithesis to AI — Vogue (opens Vogue's report in a new tab)Read on Vogue (opens in a new tab)
- Hershey CEO Kirk Tanner on GLP-1s, AI, and keeping an iconic brand relevant — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- South Korea’s exports hit record high on AI boom — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Why we can thumb our noses at AI — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- M&G's Pershad on How AI Is Reshaping Jobs in Asia — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- LiveRamp Expands OpenAI Deal With First-Party Data Targeting via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- ‘South Park’: Trump’s Animated Penis Flies Away In Deepfake Clip Roasting “Billionaire Of Weenietown” Amid Data Center Infestation — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab), Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work — OpenAI (opens OpenAI's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips5 events
- 2D semiconductor aims to turbocharge development of high-performance electronics — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft’s datacentres and Optus owner among firms paying zero tax on billion-dollar Australian revenues — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Space8 events
- SpaceX sends 4 astronauts to the International Space Station on a record-fast 8-hour trip — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- No Starlink? United Airlines Targets Rivals With Status Match Offer — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX Launches Crew for NASA on Retiring Dragon Capsule — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX launches crew to ISS successfully: ‘Thanks for an amazing ride’ — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- SpaceX Launches Crew for NASA on Retiring Dragon Capsule — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google is taking Elon Musk’s space data center idea seriously — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech2 events
Wearables & XR2 events
Cybersecurity20 events
- MetaMask Security Incident Prompts Exit of Affected Ethereum Validators — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab), +3 more outlets: who reported what5 outlets
- Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab), +1 more outlets: who reported what3 outlets
- Fortinet warns of critical FortiMail flaw exploited in zero-day attacks — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft says threat actors are ahead in the early AI race — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Chinese hackers impersonated AI experts to target US policy minds — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- NEAR Intents suffers $3.8M exploit after assistance with Bitget breach — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- NEAR Intents hit by $3.8 million exploit as crypto's rough year of hacks continues — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- The Day-One Hole in Zero Trust Architecture — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Kiteworks patches max severity code injection vulnerability — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Hackers stole Pentagon personnel records of over 3 million people — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Apple CoreGraphics PoC Emerges as WhatsApp PDF Checks Hint at Possible Delivery Path — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- Crypto hacks top $768M in September, worst month of 2026 — Cointelegraph (opens Cointelegraph's report in a new tab)Read on Cointelegraph (opens in a new tab)
- Citrix NetScaler Post-Exploitation Payload Creates Superuser, Maps Web Shell to CSS-Like URLs — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab), BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (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.