The caveat is that one of the world’s most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.
Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.
Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.
Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.
Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature
The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech
Another fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality.
Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections
After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go […]
Board, the new game startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, raises $20M, has already sold thousands
Board, the startup building what it calls “together tech” designed to bring people into the same room, has closed a Series A led by Union Square Ventures.