Recent AI news and official updates

TechCrunch AI published: Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

TechCrunch AI published: The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

TechCrunch AI published: 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.

TechCrunch AI published: After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.

TechCrunch AI published: OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.

TechCrunch AI published: Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its security vulnerability program, and access to Mythos to 150 organizations across 15 countries — targeting critical infrastructure in power, water, healthcare, and communications where a cyberattack could affect 100 million people.

TechCrunch AI published: A new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem.

MIT Technology Review published: This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How small businesses can leverage AI From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. Large companies can hire…

TechCrunch AI published: Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.

MIT Technology Review published: The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of stress and burnout among staff. And it’s getting worse.…

MIT Technology Review published: This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. A large company can hire experts to…

TechCrunch AI published: "The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.

TechCrunch AI published: If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

TechCrunch AI published: The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.

TechCrunch AI published: Anthropic, now an AI powerhouse that has landed top-tier enterprise customers, was once considered an underdog in the emerging world of large language models.

TechCrunch AI published: WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering sensor readings at any given time, launched from 15 sites around the globe. The advances in its current model come from improvements in how the data collected by the balloons is fed into the models.

TechCrunch AI published: Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

TechCrunch AI published: On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."

TechCrunch AI published: The golden age of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot appears to be at an end.

TechCrunch AI published: Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.