The day in AI and tech
Saturday 3 October 2026
47 events from 23 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence34 events
- Google Gemini could soon get full access to your Mac’s files, apps and the web — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. — Hugging Face (opens Hugging Face's report in a new tab)
- Gemini app limiting what models free & AI Plus users can access, AI Pro adding Deep Think — 9to5Google (opens 9to5Google's report in a new tab)
- <em>Don’t Write With AI</em>, Say People Who Write With A — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’ — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Banned PewDiePie Twice While He Built Ajax, an Uncensored AI That Will Run on Your PC — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- IAG on Proving AI Value Before Scaling It — Skift (opens Skift's report in a new tab)Read on Skift (opens in a new tab)
- Have You Been Duped by an AI Recipe? Here’s Everything You Need to Know — The Kitchn (opens The Kitchn's report in a new tab)Read on The Kitchn (opens in a new tab)
- Cathie Wood says smart investors need to start watching where AI agents spend money — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- How ‘Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos’ Used AI to Bring a Serial Killer Back to Life — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Why Philosophers Are Worried About AI — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- California’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- All the AI agents that can live in your text messages — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They're Not Flattering — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Who Has Expertise in the AI Age? — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Can AI Outrun America’s Deficit Problem? — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- Google Wants AI Content Fact-Checked, Gemini UTM Tags – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern — Search Engine Journal (opens Search Engine Journal's report in a new tab)
- I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab), TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- How AI is helping Mexico detect breast cancer earlier — Al Jazeera English (opens Al Jazeera English's report in a new tab)Read on Al Jazeera English (opens in a new tab)
- This anti-scam checklist can protect you against the latest AI-enhanced frauds — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Your iPhone has a Siri AI kill switch. Here’s how to use it — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- How states’ laws are struggling to keep up with AI election deepfakes — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- AI will create more jobs than it kills, McKinsey says. The catch: 11 million Americans may need new careers — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- Meta, OpenAI and Uber Just Taught AI Agents to Talk First. What About When to Stay Quiet? — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- We need a Department of AI, or we risk pushing the U.S. economy over the brink — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- IBM Brings Bob to Self-Hosted and Air-Gapped Environments: Agentic Software Development Without Moving Your Code — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Deepfake review – ingenious interview with a PM who dances around every issue — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- Prime Intellect Launches Prime Inference: Serverless and Reserved Serving for Frontier Open Models — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: #1 Real-Time Speech-to-Text Model on Artificial Analysis — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Decision AI Models Explained: TypeSafe Jev vs Fastino GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and Open-Source Competitors — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
Computing & Chips1 event
Robotics & Autonomy3 events
- Hasta la vista, baby – Figure F.02 humanoid robots decommissioned, T2-style — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi is not running at night, and lidar is the answer — Electrek (opens Electrek's report in a new tab)
- The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
Space4 events
- Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94 — Ars Technica (opens Ars Technica's report in a new tab)Read on Ars Technica (opens in a new tab)
- Lunar Landing: Dexter and the Moonrocks Touch Down in Country Music — Rolling Stone (opens Rolling Stone's report in a new tab)Read on Rolling Stone (opens in a new tab)
- Zelenskyy asked Trump to block Russia and China’s Starlink rival — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
- SkyNet satellite battle tests UK pledge to ‘buy British’ — Financial Times (opens Financial Times's report in a new tab)Read on Financial Times (opens in a new tab)
Energy Tech1 event
Cybersecurity4 events
- ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBI — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Danish university DTU breach exposes data of up to 200,000 people — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- The State of Cybersecurity in 2026: Key Segments, Insights, and Innovations — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News'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.