Microsoft ousts its Israel chief following reports that Azure quietly powered military AI targeting in Gaza

Microsoft Israel's top executive is out after an internal investigation into the unit's work with Israel's defense ministry. Reporting over the past years points to what's likely a [...]

Nebius's revenue surged nearly sevenfold — and it's building an AI factory in Pennsylvania

The AI cloud company posted $399 million in first-quarter revenue, up 684% from a year ago, and secured land and power for a new U.S. site [...]

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 [...]

Big Tech’s AI spending is catching up with its cash flow

The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, and the cost is starting to show up in the one figure that is hard [...]

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 [...]