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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-07-22: 1. Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The s 2. Google Launches Cheaper AI Cybersecurity Model Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a cost-efficient security model designed to find and patch vulnerabilities faster than expensive alternatives like Anthropic's M 3. OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-rele 4. US Threatens Sanctions on Chinese AI Models Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the Trump administration could impose sanctions against Chinese open-source AI models over alleged intellectual property theft. This escalates geopolitical t 5. Deezer Reports 90,000 Daily AI-Generated Track Uploads Music streamer Deezer revealed that more than 50% of daily uploads are now AI-generated, with over 90,000 tracks uploaded daily in June alone. This data exposes the scale of AI music flooding streamin Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-07-22.html