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Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months ↗
Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions ↗
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI ↗
The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
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.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
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 figur
TechCrunch06/02/2026
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.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
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.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
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.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work ↗
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,
TechCrunch06/02/2026
Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries ↗
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, healthc
TechCrunch06/02/2026
ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves ↗
A new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI ↗
Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.
TechCrunch06/02/2026
Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout ↗
"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 statemen
TechCrunch06/01/2026
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP ↗
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
TechCrunch06/01/2026
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents ↗
The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.
TechCrunch06/01/2026
Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO ↗
The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
TechCrunch06/01/2026
Anthropic files to go public ↗
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.
TechCrunch06/01/2026
This AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies ↗
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 sit
TechCrunch06/01/2026
DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms ↗
Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
TechCrunch06/01/2026
Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy ↗
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
TechCrunch05/31/2026
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