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AI news brief: Midjourney is striking back in copyright lawsuits against three major Hollywood studios — Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. — asking the court to compel the studios to fully disclose their own AI usage. The three studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging its image generation model can produce copyrighted characters like Bart Simpson from The Simpsons and Darth Vader from Star Wars, and claiming this constitutes infringement. Midjou…

AI News Brief: Japanese precision components giant MinebeaMitsumi (美蓓亞三美) has announced an investment of 58 billion yen (approximately 360 million USD) to expand production of precision bearings for AI data centers, planning to increase capacity by about 30%. The new facility will be set up at one of its existing manufacturing sites in Cambodia or Thailand, leveraging the established Southeast Asian supply chain to reduce construction costs and risks. These bearings are primarily used in cooling fans for data center cooling equipment…

AI news brief: Content creator and startup founder Ben Guez used the open-source AI agent OpenClaw with Claude Code to set up automated scripts that mass-posted ’trial Reels’ on Instagram, racking up over a million views and 200 DMs in just a few days. The strategy combined event-triggered content generation with a forced-funnel approach where all DMs are routed through his Canary language-learning app.

AI News Brief: Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung to explore co-developing its own custom AI chips. The Information disclosed this on Thursday, just months after Reuters reported in April that Anthropic was considering making its own chips due to supply shortages. The partnership remains in very early stages, and Anthropic has yet to decide on the chip’s specific use, ser…

AI News Brief: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted during Thursday’s internal all-hands meeting that AI agent development hasn’t accelerated as top leadership had previously expected. Earlier this year, Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees — about 10% of its corporate headcount — and reassigned 7,000 people to multiple AI-related departments, including a new organization called ‘Agent Transformation’…

AI news brief: Japan’s industrial robot makers are aggressively betting on AI and open collaboration strategies, hoping to reclaim the competitive edge they once dominated globally. According to reports, Japanese robot makers’ global market share has dropped from their former leadership levels to roughly 40%, and facing mounting pressure from Chinese and European competitors, the industry is being forced to accelerate its transformation. Yaskawa Electric is one of the representative cases of this AI-driven wave. More detailed information can be found at the original article link.

AI News Brief: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly pitched the US government on a plan to transfer 5% of the company’s equity to a US sovereign wealth fund. If implemented, the US government would directly hold a stake in OpenAI through a national fund, letting the general public indirectly share in the financial gains from the AI boom. The move has also reignited broader debate over whether AI industry wealth should be opened up to the public in a more inclusive way rather than concentrated among a handful of private investors.

AI News Brief: Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae visited New Delhi on July 2, 2026, to meet with Indian Prime Minister Modi for a summit, where the two sides announced cooperation plans across multiple strategic areas including defense, AI technology, energy security, and economic cooperation. The most landmark outcome is the signing of both countries’ first defense joint R&D agreement, formally upgrading the Japan-India security partnership from the procurement level to a joint development stage. On infrastructure, both leaders specifically mentioned the Japan-assisted India high-speed rail project, with partial sections expected to launch operations in 2027. While specific cooperation mechanisms for AI and energy security have been placed on the agenda, the original summary did not disclose technical details or investment amounts — please refer to the source link for full details. Diplomatically, Modi publicly called Takaichi Sanae his ’little sister,’ highlighting the deep personal rapport between the two leaders, which is expected to help both countries continue deepening strategic trust amid geopolitical pressure.

AI News Brief: Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae visited New Delhi on July 2, holding a summit with Indian Prime Minister Modi at Hyderabad House — her first official visit to India since taking office. The two nations formally signed their first defense co-development agreement, elevating bilateral security cooperation from equipment procurement to joint R&D. Beyond defense, both sides announced initiatives spanning AI technology, economic security, and energy security.

AI News Brief: Taiwan’s tech supply chain continues to benefit from the AI infrastructure boom this year, with several companies seeing sharp market cap gains, but the structural bottleneck of supply-demand imbalance remains unresolved. Unimicron, a key Nvidia and Intel supplier and Taiwan’s largest chip substrate and PCB maker, has seen its stock price climb roughly 350% this year and has already raised its capex plan twice to meet surging demand. However, new chairman Chien Shan-chieh says expanding revenue…