July 21, 2026

After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case: Snap is the latest big tech company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company has reached a "tentative" agreement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its portion of the case with the plaintiff, known by the initials "R.K.C.," ahead of a jury trial that starts next week in Los Angeles. YouTube has also reached a deal, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant. Meta has lost similar child safety lawsuits focused on social media, including one in New Mexico earlier this year, which marked its first courtroom defeat over the matter. In March, a Los Angeles jury also handed the social media giant, along with Google, another defeat, and awarded the defendant in that case, who went by "K.G.M," or Kaley, $6 million in damages. The precedents set by these cases are encouraging a wave of lawsuits against social media platforms over their purported harms, including their addictive nature and algorithms that negatively impact children and teens' mental health. The results of these lawsuits could see the companies reshaping their platforms with more robust child safety measures, parental controls, and other design choices that could help them avoid future litigation. The terms of Snap's agreement weren't disclosed, but Bloomberg reports that Snap confirmed the settlement has been achieved. Snap did not immediately return a request for comment. Read More

AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned: A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno. Read More

Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved: The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models. Read More

AI is rewriting the rules of energy. As demand outpaces infrastructure, the answer isn’t just more power: it’s smarter systems. Schneider Electric's CEO shares how energy and industrial intelligence unlock efficiency, resilience, and scalable growth.

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort: X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally. Read More

Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation: The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report. Read More

What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale: Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop. Read More

Trump's latest AI czar has already resigned: The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar. Read More

Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors on barges: Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co. Read More

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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated: Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June. Read More

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July 20, 2026

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk: Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions of websites, according to an estimate by a cybersecurity researcher. Read More

Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action: Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity. Read More

Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe: The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions. Read More

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X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort: X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally. Read More

Hackers stole 'significant' amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies: Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patients, potentially exposing health data. Read More

Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup: Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck. Read More

AI's most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It's the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next week, that protocol is getting a significant update, and while it might not be noticeable to end users, it could make a big difference in how the ecosystem develops. The official spec for the new version has been public since May, but we got an unusually clear explanation of the changes Monday morning from the folks at Arcade — a two-year-old startup that's built its entire business around the work of getting AI agents to actually function inside real companies, letting them securely connect to and act on tools like Gmail, Slack, and Salesforce. Arcade raised $60 million in June on the idea that most AI agents don't fail because the underlying models are weak but because the infrastructure around them isn't ready yet, and that's what this update is trying to address. Essentially, MCP is changing the way it handles session IDs — the little tokens that servers use to remember "ah, this is the same conversation as five seconds ago" — so servers can operate more easily at a larger scale. As Arcade founder Nate Barbettini puts it: [Under the current system] The first time an MCP client like Claude connects to a Read More

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers: AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.   Read More

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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?: Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business. Read More

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