
This Week in AI: July 18 – 24, 2026
A federal judge granted final approval to Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors. OpenAI and Anthropic found rare common ground warning policymakers about open-weight Chinese AI models, Google shipped three new Gemini models, xAI brought Grok directly into Microsoft Office, and China's WAIC 2026 closed out with over 300 product debuts in Shanghai.













