Daily — July 6, 2026

Kling raises ~$3B, authors sue Anthropic, BCI-driven immersive content.

• [Sedaily] Kuaishou's AI Video Arm Kling Raises Around $3B ↗

  Kuaishou's AI video-generation subsidiary Kling AI is raising roughly $2-3B at a valuation near $18B, with Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu floated as investors and a possible spin-off and Hong Kong listing in view. AI video tools are moving past product-feature competition to be valued as standalone companies and capital-market events.

• [New York Post] 100+ Authors Demand Over $75M from Anthropic ↗

  More than 100 US authors have sued Anthropic, alleging it used pirated books to train Claude, and are seeking over $75M in damages. The plaintiffs include bestselling authors, screenwriters, and award-winning children's writers, claiming up to $150,000 per work. Separate from the fair-use debate over AI training, how the training data was acquired is emerging as its own legal risk.

• [Newswire] Sweet&Data Wins AI Content Grant, Builds BCI-Based Immersive Experience ↗

  Sweet&Data was selected for Korea's 2026 AI content-production support program and is building 'Room of the Mind,' a BCI-plus-generative-AI immersive experience. It delivers a personalized, immersive spatial experience driven by the user's response data, with a total budget of about 223M KRW including a 200M KRW state subsidy. Korea's AI content support is expanding beyond video-generation tools toward biosignal-based experiential content.