July 2026

A federal court has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright infringement case, marking the largest such agreement in the AI industry to date. The approval resolves one lawsuit but leaves unresolved the broader question of whether training AI models on copyrighted works without permission constitutes fair use or infringement. Source Sony Music Entertainment

Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, concluded a visit to Tokyo with a series of deals spanning Japan's entire technology ecosystem. The agreements signal Nvidia's deepening integration with Japanese hardware makers, semiconductor manufacturers, and software firms as the company expands beyond its core GPU business. Source American political campaigns are grappling with a new problem: chatbots

Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup, released a new version of its Kimi language model this week. The release prompted discussion online about "full AI communism," a phrase used to describe concerns about the model's capabilities and approach. Source The government is piloting a program that uses artificial intelligence to make insurance-coverage decisions, specifically for prior

Databricks has reached a valuation of $188 billion in a new funding round, extending its position as a leading AI infrastructure company. The data and AI platform, which has repositioned itself as an AI company after its origins in data engineering, has published research demonstrating the cost savings of open-weight AI models for coding tasks.

The European Union ordered Google to give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search, strengthening the bloc's grip on the tech giant's control of two of the industry's most important platforms. The decisions, handed down Thursday, force Google to comply with the EU's digital antitrust rules.