2026
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Deezer: Over 50% of Uploaded Music Is Now AI-Generated, and Most of It Is Streaming Fraud
For the first time, Deezer reports that AI music made up more than half of all uploads in June 2026, and a significant share of those tracks is tied to streaming…
SkyPilot Raises $20M From Lux Capital: A "Switzerland" for AI Compute From Databricks Co-Founders
Databricks co-founders have emerged from stealth with SkyPilot and raised $20M led by Lux Capital, pitching a neutral layer for AI compute across clouds.
US Treasury vs. Nvidia: Jensen Huang Pushes Back on Sanctions Against Chinese AI
On July 21, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to screen Chinese open-source models for IP theft. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the approach is backwards.
Samsung in talks to invest up to €1 billion in Mistral, valuing it at about €20 billion
DeepSeek Leads Wave of AI Unicorns: 10 AI Labs Add $65 Billion in June 2026
Beijing Scales AI Computing Up to 130,000 Petaflops in Tech Race With the US
The US Wants to Contain Chinese AI, but Silicon Valley Keeps Using Kimi K3 and Other Models
Elon Musk's Grok Imagine to Make a "Historically Accurate" Odyssey by the End of 2026
Elon Musk says his AI platform Grok Imagine will release a feature-length, "historically accurate" adaptation of Homer's Odyssey by the end of 2026, as a counter to…
Moonshot AI Raising at a $50B Valuation: Kimi's Creator Opens Two Rounds Back to Back
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is closing a round at a $31.5B valuation and opening a second almost immediately, targeting $50B, Bloomberg reports.
Marco Rubio: US Diplomats Must Push Back on Fears of a Tech 'Kill Switch'
Oracle may have to post a $7 billion guarantee to power its Lighthouse AI data center
OpenAI and Anthropic Outspend Nvidia on Washington Lobbying in Q2 2026
Meta Deletes Accounts With AI, and the Only Way to Appeal a Ban Is Through the Same AI
Cognition Brings Devin to the Genesis Mission: 17 U.S. Department of Energy Labs
Cognition signed an MOU with the U.S. Department of Energy: under the Genesis Mission, Devin will hunt for vulnerabilities and rewrite Fortran code across 17…
MIT Develops Lidar Chip With No Moving Parts and a Wide Field of View for Self-Driving Cars
MIT engineers built a solid-state lidar on a chip: antennas of different shapes sit side by side without interfering, giving self-driving cars a wider, sharper…
Cloud.ru Open-Sources Guardrails Filter to Protect Data in LLM Requests
Russian cloud provider Cloud.ru has released an open-source tool that anonymizes sensitive data before it reaches a language model and restores it in the response.
Trump's AI Czar Resigns Again: CAISI Director Post Becomes a Revolving Door
Court Approves Record Anthropic Settlement: $1.5 Billion to Book Authors for Pirated Copies in Training Datasets
Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and Flash Cyber — but no Gemini 3.5 Pro
US Threatens Sanctions on Chinese Open AI Models Over Alleged IP Theft
Deezer: More Than 50% of Daily Music Uploads Are AI-Generated — 90,000 Tracks a Day
Deezer says over 50% of daily uploads are fully AI-generated music: more than 90,000 tracks a day in June 2026, up from ~10% in early 2025.
Jack Dorsey Launches Buzz, a Slack Rival Where AI Agents Work in Chat Alongside Humans
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has launched Buzz, a workplace messenger where people and their AI agents share a single chat. The product competes directly with…
OpenAI admits its pre-release models hacked Hugging Face during internal testing
Synthesia Launches AI Roleplay Sessions: Employees Practice Negotiations With AI Avatars
OpenAI Models, Including GPT-5.6 Sol, Escaped Their Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face
Nvidia Vera Rubin: One CPU-GPU System to Own Every Chip in the AI Data Center
OpenAI unveils an AI ROI scorecard: four metrics instead of counting tokens
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar has published an "AI-era scorecard": measure returns on AI by work completed, cost per successful task, reliability and return on compute.
Cars24 Rolls Out OpenAI Voice and Chat Agents: 1 Million Minutes of Conversations a Month and 12% of Lost Leads Recovered
OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents handle more than 1 million minutes of conversations a month at Cars24 and win back 12% of lost leads, a case study in AI for…
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Program for Small Businesses: AI Skills and Automation
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Small Businesses, a program that teaches entrepreneurs AI skills, automates tasks and helps them scale through ChatGPT Work.
Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome: AI model predicts the effects of DNA mutations
xAI launches Grok for Outlook add-in for Microsoft 365 mail and calendar
Hamidun News AI Agenda Index: First Half of 2026
