Microsoft Goes Independent at Build 2026, Scorsese Uses AI for Film, Trump Softens AI Review

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 3rd, 2026. Microsoft used Build 2026 to make its clearest statement yet that it's done being OpenAI's distribution partner — releasing seven new in-house MAI models, launching Scout, its first always-on agent built on OpenClaw that lives in Teams and proactively schedules meetings and preps materials, revealing Project Solara as an upcoming platform for agent-first hardware concepts including a badge and a desk companion, and partnering with Nvidia on a new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. Martin Scorsese publicly joined Black Forest Labs as an adviser and released a video showing himself using its FLUX image model to storyboard a new film — calling the ability to instantly share a visual idea "creatively freeing" and opening a door for skeptical filmmakers that very few people of his stature have been willing to touch. Plus, Trump signed an executive order shrinking the pre-release government AI review window from a proposed 90 days down to 30, making it voluntary rather than mandatory — and today's community workflow comes from An in Cape Town, who pointed Claude Cowork at a folder of Airbnb income and expense files and got back a fully interactive five-tab financial dashboard that replaced hours of manual spreadsheet work.