AI News for May 22, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Spotify and Universal Music strike AI remix deal, stock jumps 15%: Spotify and Universal Music Group signed a licensing deal letting Premium subscribers generate AI covers and remixes of UMG songs as a paid add-on.
[NEWS] Hark raises $700M Series A at $6B for secretive personal AI device: Figure AI founder Brett Adcock's new AI lab Hark closed a $700M Series A at a $6B post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Brookfield, and ARK Invest participating.
[NEWS] Anthropic in talks to rent Microsoft Maia 200 AI chips: Anthropic is negotiating to rent Microsoft's Maia 200 AI server chips to boost compute capacity, per The Information.
[NEWS] Pentagon tests AI models to replace Anthropic with 25 power users: The Pentagon is benchmarking competing AI models with 25 of its "power users" as it races to find alternatives to Anthropic's Claude, a senior defense official said.
[NEWS] Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max runs 35 hours autonomously, supports Claude Code harness: Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary model the company says sustained ~35 hours of continuous autonomous execution and is compatible with external agent harnesses including Anthropic's Claude Code.
[NEWS] DeepSeek founder pitches AGI as $10B round advances: DeepSeek's senior management has told investors in its 70B yuan ($10B) funding round that the company will prioritize frontier AGI research over short-term commercialization.
[NEWS] Cloudflare cuts 20% of staff, CEO calls middle managers obsolete: Cloudflare laid off 20% of its 5,000-person workforce a week after posting record revenue, with CEO Matthew Prince writing in the WSJ that the cuts targeted "measurers" in middle management, finance, legal, internal audit, and revenue recognition.
[NEWS] Cursor hits $3B ARR ahead of expected SpaceX acquisition: Cursor's annualized revenue reached $3B in late April, up from $2B in February, per a person familiar.
[NEWS] US Cyber Command launches task force to deploy OpenAI and Google models on top-secret networks: US Cyber Command and the NSA are setting up a joint task force to run AI models from OpenAI, Google, and others on "high-side" classified Pentagon networks, per Politico.
[TOOLS] Spotify launches Studio app, an AI personal podcast generator taking on NotebookLM: Spotify released Studio by Spotify Labs, a standalone desktop app that uses an agent to fetch personal context from email and calendar and generate custom audio briefings or one-off explainer podcasts.

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