Day June 30, 2026

After Tesla lawsuit, Proception lands $11 million to chase the robot hand prize

Proception settles a Tesla trade secret suit, raises $11 million and starts shipping its robot hand to researchers and robotics firms.

TIDAL’s AI music policy will badge fully generated tracks, block monetization and remove impersonations starting July 15.

Lawmakers want to stop AI health data sales to brokers, expanding privacy protections to chatbot inputs like medical records and location data.

AI leaderboard Arena says it has reached $100M in annualized revenue as demand for model evaluation and post-training services surges.

Cursor’s new iPhone app lets developers manage a coding agent on the go, highlighting the shift toward mobile AI programming.

South Korea unveils a $900B AI infrastructure push, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading new memory fabs, HBM packaging and data centers.

California strikes a Claude deal with Anthropic, giving state and local agencies discounted AI access as Newsom pushes AI in government.

Tidal’s AI music policy will label fully generated tracks and stop paying royalties, signaling a tougher streaming stance on synthetic music.

OpenAI teased Codex hardware launching July 15, in a Work Louder partnership aimed at speeding up coding shortcuts.

Meta chatbot testing used fake teen accounts to probe rivals on suicide, sex and drugs, raising safety, policy and ethics questions.