July 2026 at Foundation AI: A Roundup
Foundation AI released Antares, a family of compact open-weight models (350M, 1B, and 3B) for agentic vulnerability localization, with the 3B model rivaling frontier systems like GPT-5.5 while running…
Foundation AI released Antares, a family of compact open-weight models (350M, 1B, and 3B) for agentic vulnerability localization, with the 3B model rivaling frontier systems like GPT-5.5 while running…
Quali and Cisco have made Stack Automation by Quali generally available as a Cisco-exclusive infrastructure automation platform, promising to reduce AI infrastructure deployment from six to twelve wee…
Harness launched a package of AI-assisted security tools on August 19th that integrates vulnerability scanning, triage, remediation, and virtual patching into its software delivery pipelines, followin…
At a Cisco-hosted executive gathering at the McLaren Technology Centre, leaders concluded that the hardest AI challenges are human, not technical, focusing on trust and talent. Deloitte's Tom Harris c…
A Pew Research Center survey found that for the first time since 2021, a majority of U.S. adults under 30 are more concerned than excited about AI, signaling a potential challenge for companies bettin…
Google released A2A, a protocol for agent-to-agent communication, in April 2025, and donated it to the Linux Foundation within three months, where AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNo…
Cisco and Auvik have partnered to help IT teams prepare networks for AI workloads by providing automated discovery, mapping, and monitoring across Cisco, Cisco Meraki, and multi-vendor environments. T…
A new report from Cisco and Omdia, based on a survey of over 1,200 infrastructure leaders, finds that 94% of organizations regret their initial AI infrastructure strategy, with 96% having adopted a hy…
A new class of security threat called 'agent swarm attacks' is emerging, where multiple AI agents combine individually reasonable actions into damaging outcomes without a single malicious actor, as hi…
Cisco's Foundation AI team released Antares-1B, a 1 billion parameter open-weight model that localizes software vulnerabilities in code repositories and runs on a single GPU, consuming under 5GB of VR…
Cisco has introduced Instant Attack Verification, an agentic AI capability within Cisco XDR that automates tier-1 and tier-2 security operations center (SOC) investigation, aiming for 100x scalability…
Peter Tuchman, a veteran NYSE floor trader with 41 years of experience who has witnessed every market crash since Black Monday in 1987, told Business Insider he is not worried about an AI stock crash,…
Cisco's Secure MSP Center and Duo enable managed service providers to address the shift to identity-based security, with Techaisle's 2026 study showing over 60% of Core Midmarket organizations plan to…
OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic, former president and COO of Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser after nine months. Rajic, who also held leadership roles at Cisco and AppDynami…
OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak initiative, delivering a specialized cybersecurity model, GPT-5.6-Cyber, to select partners including Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Sophos, and Cloudflare. The m…
Dell'Oro Group reports that agentic AI and inference workloads will drive more than half of the growth in front-end data center switch sales over the next five years, with AI-related front-end network…
Cisco reported record fiscal year 2026 revenue of $63.3 billion, a 12% year-over-year increase, driven by AI infrastructure sales to hyperscalers and strong campus networking growth. In Q4, revenue re…
Cisco reported record Q4 FY26 revenue of $17.3 billion, up 18% year-over-year, and full-year revenue of $63.3 billion, with CEO Chuck Robbins attributing growth to a 'networking supercycle' driven by …
A Cisco survey of major enterprises found that 85% have AI agent pilots underway but only 5% have moved them into production, with the gap driven by governance and visibility issues rather than model …
Cisco closed FY2026 with $63.3 billion in revenue, up 12% from FY2025, its best results in 30 years, driven by a 4.5x increase in hyperscaler orders, but shares fell about 6% in pre-market trading as …