1. 🤓 Microsoft Launched Scout, An OpenClaw-Inspired Personal Assistant

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Microsoft is launching Scout, a new AI assistant designed to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Built on the OpenClaw framework, Scout is an always-on agentic assistant, designed to work alongside the user with a persistent identity and style. (TechCrunch)

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3. 🌍 Anthropic is Expanding Claude Mythos to 15+ Countries

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, of which the all-powerful model Claude Mythos is at the heart of, to about 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries in an effort to find and fix critical software vulnerabilities using AI. The expanded list of orgs with access to Mythos now covers power, water, healthcare, comms, and hardware. (TechCrunch)

4. 🧩 You Can’t AI Your Way Out of Bad Planning

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5. 🧰 OpenAI Launched New Codex Tools For White-Collar Work

OpenAI really wants to impress enterprise users. As part of the courting effort, the AI lab just released a new set of capabilities for Codex with uses far beyond software engineering. The new tools are in the form of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. (TechCrunch)

6. 💳 Mastercard is Replacing its CFO in a Leadership Shake-Up

Mastercard is making big internal moves. The credit card provider just named regional president Ling Hai as its next CFO, creating a new executive role for outgoing CFO Sachin Mehra as part of a larger senior team reorganization. The exec changes, which are all scheduled to take effect on August 3, include Linda Kirkpatrick (current President of the Americas) becoming Chief Services Officer and Dimi Dosis (President of EMEA) becoming Chief Commercial Payments Officer. (Quartz)

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7. 🖌️ Adobe is Rebuilding Photoshop & Premiere to Run on Nvidia’s New AI Superchip

Another win for Nvidia. Adobe announced it’s rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up to run on Nvidia’s RTX Spark AI superchip, with updates expected to begin rolling out this fall alongside the chip’s availability. Premiere’s new video pipeline will deliver real-time performance for editing and color correction, while Photoshop’s architecture will be rebuilt around GPU-accelerated compositing. (Quartz)

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