Microsoft Build Announcements, UK Ruling On Google AI Search + more!

Duration: 07:40

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:12 Microsoft Build 2026 Announcements

2:41 UK Ruling On Google AI Search

3:50 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:00 Google Fake Call Detection

4:37 Major Takedown of Scam Accounts

5:12 Meta Lets Employees Pause Surveillance

5:53 Florida Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman

6:39 Researchers Demonstrate AI Worm

NEWS SOURCES:

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MICROSOFT IS DRINKING THE KOOL AI-D

Microsoft Build is capping off in San Francisco today and has been an opportunity for microsoft to take a break from their focus on improving windows through listening to user feedback in favor of a series of AI announcements that have the frantic desperation of Balmers “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS” speech with none of his sweaty charm

https://ca.pcmag.com/windows/16025/the-future-microsoft-showed-at-build-2026-barely-looks-like-windows

They will be rolling out a "Copilot super app” comprised of OpenClaw-esque always on agents called “autopilots” that will manage your life - https://letsdatascience.com/news/microsoft-teases-copilot-super-app-but-no-demo-1659bca7

They announced the first of these, which is an AI assistant that’s thankfully NOT also fucking named Copilot: “Scout”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/

Which is running open claw under the hood - https://www.computerworld.com/article/4180103/microsoft-unveils-scout-an-autonomous-ai-agent-built-on-openclaw.html

The highlight of the presentation was a demo in which Microsoft proudly showed off one of these agents trying and failing to delete a bunch of user files thanks to stricter guardrails - https://lmg.gg/agf1E

Not to be outdone by google and OpenAI’s “agentic OS” push they also announced: Also this stupid fucking Agentic OS called Project Solara, an Android-based OS for devices that run AI agents instead of apps - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/microsofts-project-solara-is-an-android-os-designed-for-agents-instead-of-apps/

They also announced that they would be rolling out their own frontier models, indicating that they’re moving away from their association with OpenAI - ​​https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942242/microsoft-build-ai-agents-openai-competition

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1 as well as a handful of other agents for image den, transcription, voice generation, and coding - https://www.theverge.com/tech/941664/microsoft-ai-model-reasoning-mai-thinking-1-build-2026

And finally they announced a surface version of the RTX spark desktop and laptop for windows AI developers - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/microsoft-plans-linux-tools-and-an-rtx-spark-desktop-for-windows-developers/

Prompting Huang to drop into the chat and say how excited he is for ai because now he can text his computer - https://www.techradar.com/pro/ai-is-now-useful-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-thinks-a-new-era-for-ai-is-here-and-its-partnership-with-microsoft-could-be-key-for-achieving-it

NOT MY CUPPA’ TEA

In a win for the Open internet UK’s competition regulator has ordered Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews in a world first - https://www.theverge.com/tech/942302/google-search-ai-overviews-uk-cma-publisher-opt-out

Following their recent announcement at Google IO a couple of weeks ago that they were pushing AI into search - https://time.com/article/2026/05/20/google-search-ai-internet/

And the resulting backlash https://www.businessinsider.com/google-new-ai-search-will-ruin-internet-web-2026-5

This will both give publishers the ability to block google’s AI overview from pulling content from their websites through a toggle in Google Search console - https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/06/03/citation-please-uk-regulator-slaps-google-with-new-publishing-rules-for-search/5250544

With a guarantee that this won’t affect their search listings - https://www.gadgetreview.com/publishers-can-now-opt-out-of-ai-search-thanks-to-new-u-k-regulation

It also guarantees proper attribution if you do allow your content to be accessed, as well as the ability to stop google from using your content to fine tune it’s models - https://www.digit.fyi/uk-publishers-can-opt-out-of-google-ai-overviews/

The CMA plans to assess this legislation’s impact on publisher web traffic before considering whether google should be paying publishers directly - https://lmg.gg/xdEQB

QUICKBITS

MOM? PROVE IT!

Google is adding fake call detection to its Phone app to stop those annoying contact-spoofing scammers

https://www.theverge.com/tech/941517/google-phone-scammer-ai-impersonation

citing INTERPOL’s findings that impersonation fraud drives $400B in global losses.

https://lmg.gg/Fe4GS

Since AI fraud is 4.5x more profitable than boring old normal fraud,

https://lmg.gg/aifraudworks

However, the feature only works if both you and the person calling you are using the app because it uses silent, RCS-encrypted signals to verify that the caller isn't a scammer. If they are, your phone won't get that hidden signal, and it’ll trigger a warning telling you to hang up.

https://blog.google/security/android-fake-call-detection/

The feature is rolling out globally on Android 12+ starting with PIxel phones.

https://lmg.gg/7HPsq

EVEN A BROKEN CLOCK

Meta teamed up with the DOJ, Microsoft, Coinbase, and Starlink to crush 1.4 million Southeast Asian scam accounts.

https://www.engadget.com/2186397/meta-took-down-over-a-million-scam-accounts-in-joint-operation-with-microsoft-spacex-and-doj/

Thai police arrested 63 people, Coinbase froze $3 million in crypto, Microsoft nuked 20,000 accounts, and Starlink even blacklisted thousands of satellite dishes.

https://lmg.gg/tQ9Bd

WOW, SO KIND OF YOU META

Meta is compromising on its AI keystroke spyware after a 1,500 signature petition and employees branded the company as an “employee data extraction factory.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-scales-back-ai-mouse-clicks-tool-citing-employee-concerns-2026-06-02/

The Zuckinator compromised and metas staff can now pause the spyware for, wait for it - 30 minutes at a time! Perfect for a quick, unmonitored existential dread session.

https://www.engadget.com/2186261/meta-will-reportedly-let-employees-take-30-minute-breaks-from-its-tracking-program/

They obviously aren't removing it; Zuck says you’re all just too talented not to harvest. Have you considered that you’re being selfish by wanting privacy? Think of the shareholder value!

https://lmg.gg/93X4U

SUE-PERINTELLIGENCE

Florida just became the first state to sue OpenAI, and Sam Altman personally, over ChatGPT’s safety records.

https://abcnews.com/Technology/wireStory/florida-sues-openai-ceo-sam-altman-claiming-company-133490995

An 83-page complaint by Florida’s Attorney General accuses them of marketing the AI as kid-safe while ignoring internal warnings that it pushed users toward self-harm and helped plan deadly attacks. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28179898-florida-v-openai-filed-stamped-complaint/

The state wants $10,000 per violation, which could total billions. If Florida wins, they plan to spend the money on the state's most pressing issue: more sunscreen for the elderly.

https://lmg.gg/B3BXx

WORLD WIDE WORM

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a proof-of-concept worm that uses free, open-weight AI models to adapt its attack as it spreads across laptops, printers, and even … the power grid? https://www.engadget.com/2186363/researchers-show-how-ai-powered-worms-could-wreak-havoc-on-the-internet/

Oh, this is fun, it also even steals processing power from infected devices to fuel its next move. That's…fine, what could go wrong with a self-replicating, self-improving, Ai worm that grows stronger the more devices it infects.

https://lmg.gg/HvECE

Here’s a fun suggestion: let's not do that. I know I let it slide with Oppenheimer that one time, but I regret it deeply.