Lumen Expands Fiber Network With New AI-Focused NorthLine Route

LUMN expands its fiber network with NorthLine, a low-latency Seattle-to-Minneapolis route built to support rising AI and cloud demand. [...]

Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement

The company that put $13bn into OpenAI now wants the option not to need it. Cursor was the first try and fell apart over GitHub Copilot; talks with Stanford diffusion-LLM startup Inception are alive, [...]

Meta and Google fund the kids groups they cite back at regulators

An eight-month investigation arc, a $6m bellwether verdict, and a National PTA that has now resigned its Meta sponsorship. The line between independent expert and corporate spokesperson is, on the evi [...]

Google is doing to factory robots what Android did to phones. Fanuc just became the Samsung of the equation.

  Fanuc makes more industrial robots than anyone on the planet. Google makes more software platforms than anyone on the planet. On Wednesday, the two companies announced a partnership that merges tho [...]

Agent authorization is broken — and authentication passing makes it worse

Anthony Grieco, Cisco’s SVP and chief security and trust officer, did not hesitate when VentureBeat asked whether rogue agent incidents are reaching Cisco’s customer base."A hundred percent. [...]

Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon. [...]

Four AI supply-chain attacks in 50 days exposed the release pipeline red teams aren't covering

Four supply-chain incidents hit OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in 50 days: three adversary-driven attacks and one self-inflicted packaging failure. None targeted the model, and all four exposed the same g [...]

OpenAI’s courtroom win over Elon Musk clears a major obstacle to an IPO

A judge’s swift ruling against Musk removes a legal cloud hanging over the $500 billion AI company, potentially accelerating what could become one of the biggest public offerings in Wall Street hist [...]

Google launches Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant you can email like a colleague

Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O 2026, an always-on agentic AI assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It runs on dedicated cloud VMs, integrates natively with Gmail and Workspa [...]