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Lumen and Microsoft will now jointly sell company networks built for AI
Why it mattersCompanies buying Microsoft AI services can now get the network connections to run them from Lumen in the same sales process.
Seventy: Tuesday, 3 November 2026
A quiet day for CEO news: one story worth your time.
What happened. Lumen Technologies and Microsoft are expanding their co-selling partnership, so both will now sell enterprises networks built to connect the data, applications and infrastructure behind AI workloads. The announcement was made on November 2, 2026.
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OpenAI will work with power companies so its data centres do not raise household electricity bills
Why it mattersCompanies planning large data centres now have an OpenAI template for working with utilities to protect local power supply and prices.
What happened. OpenAI has launched the Grid Protectors Program, in which it will partner with electric utilities on its planned data centre sites. The aim is to keep the power network stable and stop household power bills from rising.
03Safety
UK cyber agency says AI-driven attacks on key services are likely by 2028
Why it mattersOld, underfunded systems are now the main target: NCSC says AI will find and exploit them faster, so security spending can't wait.
What happened. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, says in its State of the Cyber Nation report that a ransomware attack using AI-powered malware on UK critical infrastructure is highly likely by 2028. It says hostile actors will use AI to scale up ransomware, social engineering and the exploitation of known weaknesses within two years.
AWS explains how to shrink the running cost of your customer-facing AI assistants
Why it mattersIf your AI assistant makes several frontier-model calls per task, per-task cost grows with every customer, so is worth testing.
What happened. AWS shows how to use knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI to train a smaller model from a frontier model's behaviour. The target is shopping assistants that make many model calls per task, where cost grows with every shopper.
05Agents
Amazon's customer service software can now connect to your other business apps without custom code
Why it mattersContact-centre teams on Amazon Connect can wire flows to outside systems using tools they already built for AI agents, skipping custom code.
What happened. Amazon Connect Customer has a new 'External Tool' block that lets customer experience flows call MCP tools through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Flows can pull data from or trigger actions in third-party applications, reusing the tools already built for AI agent experiences, with no custom Lambda functions.
OpenAI built its own code storage system to cope with AI-written software
What happenedOpenAI built Pando, a backend that works with Git and is designed to handle the volume of code development that its Codex tool produces.
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Words of the day
- co-selling
- A partnership arrangement where two companies jointly market and sell their products to the same customers, often sharing the sales process.
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