Anthropic's $1.5B settlement, Sony versus Udio, Meta's $10B talks - July 21, 2026

Cortech Daily · Jul 21, 2026 · 8m

A landmark $1.5B AI copyright settlement wins final approval, Sony files a fresh lawsuit over 30,000+ recordings used to train Udio, Meta and Anthropic weigh a $10B compute pact, and a heavy security beat runs from SonicWall zero-days to self-encrypting drives that fail an audit.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:20) - Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved - source

(1:06) - Sony's second lawsuit against Udio - source

(1:52) - Meta and Anthropic's $10B compute talks - source

(2:33) - Google's new Gemini efficiency chip - source

(3:16) - Qwen-Image 3.0 ships closed - source

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