AI News — Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

SpaceX in your index fund, explained

AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use

China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself

Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI

Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge

The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage

Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?

Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

How Google’s New Gemini Rates Work and How to Track Your Usage

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada

The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap

The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

How to Make an Invisible Drone

Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia

Newer Models, Same Advantage

Security incident disclosure — July 2026

What building Shippy taught us about building agents

The First Chatbot’s Multiple Personalities

This AI Folds DNA Into Mini Masterpieces