Artificial Inteligence feed for Wednesday, July 15, 2026

• Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
• xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
• 3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
• AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs
• Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
• SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
• Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
• Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
• What building Shippy taught us about building agents
• Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
• Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
• Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
• Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
• Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
• OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex
• Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
• Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
• Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models
• Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
• Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media
• The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
• Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
• Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
• GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
• OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
• Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
• Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI