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AI News Flash: As more people get in the habit of ignoring calls from unknown numbers, phone scammers are adapting their tactics. They’re now spoofing trusted phone numbers so caller ID looks like it’s coming from a bank, a government agency, a family member, or an employer — tricking victims into dropping their guard and picking up. What makes this even more dangerous is that these scams are now paired with AI deepfake voice technology, which can generate near-perfect fake voices in real time, precisely mimicking the tone and speech patterns of a family member, boss, or official…

AI news brief: Microsoft officially launched a new AI assistant called Scout at its Build developer conference, positioned as a personal assistant product aimed at bringing OpenClaw’s power and flexibility into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, so businesses and individual users get a more flexible AI experience right in their everyday productivity tools. The original brief didn’t share specific feature details, pricing, or launch timing for Scout.

AI News Flash: Martin Scorsese has recently become the newest — and most unlikely — voice speaking up for AI in Hollywood. One of the most influential living directors, he’s started bringing AI tools into his workflow, though the scope is quite limited, confined to the storyboarding stage rather than shooting, editing, or any core creative process.

AI news brief: Microsoft officially released an open-source framework called Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing (ASSERT) on Tuesday, built for quickly setting up AI behavior evaluation pipelines. As the name suggests, the core idea is ‘spec-driven scoring’…

AI news brief: Uber recently announced a cap on employee spending for AI tools, after previously encouraging staff to use AI as much as possible only to burn through the entire budget in just four months, forcing a rapid pivot from open access to strict cost controls. The shift from encouraging unrestricted use to emergency spending caps took only four months, highlighting how enterprises rolling out AI at scale can see actual usage far outpace projections if they don’t build cost-tracking mechanisms in from the start.

AI News Flash: OpenAI has publicly called on the world to address youth AI safety, proposing the creation of an international body dedicated to setting protection standards and regulatory frameworks for minors’ use of AI. The core concern is that countries currently lack unified standards for regulating how young people access AI systems, making the risks hard to manage systematically. OpenAI argues that self-regulation by companies or individual national legislation alone is no longer…

AI News Brief: OpenAI recently released a batch of Codex extension tools designed for different professional roles, covering plugins, integration websites, and annotation features, aiming to let non-engineering team members like analysts, marketers, designers, and investors directly use Codex’s AI capabilities to boost their daily productivity. The core idea behind this update is to expand C…

AI News Brief: Insurance company Travelers has partnered with OpenAI to build an AI-powered Claim Assistant system. The system mainly tackles three pain points: first, guiding customers step-by-step through the claims filing process to reduce form errors and administrative friction, so even users unfamiliar with insurance procedures can submit claims smoothly; second, offering…

AI News Brief: WindBorne’s edge comes from owning both ends of the pipeline — data collection and model building. The company currently launches weather balloons from 15 locations worldwide, with roughly 400 balloons airborne at any given moment, capturing real-time atmospheric sensor data. The real driver behind its latest forecasting model’s accuracy gains isn’t a bigger model architecture — it’s a better way of feeding balloon data into the model, meaning improvements to data preprocessing and assimilation.

AI news brief: Anthropic, once seen as an up-and-comer in the large language model space, has grown into an AI powerhouse with a top-tier enterprise client base. Limited summary info in the original — see the source link for full details.