TECHNOLOGYUber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 monthsUber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYNew Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptionsMicrosoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYA startup, Everand, is now bundling e-books, audiobooks, and book clubs in challenge to AmazonA new reading subscription from Everand offers access to both e-books and audiobooks, and Fable's book club community.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMartin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AIThe caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMicrosoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computingMicrosoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quThe Verge·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMicrosoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is hereMicrosoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companieThe Verge·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMicrosoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistantLaunched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMeet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs OffMicrosoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.Wired·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMicrosoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behaviorThe specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYGoogle rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scamsAs 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·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYFocused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion techAnother fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality.TechCrunch·June 2, 2026
TECHNOLOGYPartiful Is Putting Ticket Payments on Its PlatformIn the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app.Wired·June 2, 2026
