Cisco AI engineer Shridhar Shah built a tiny multi-agent system where an agent learns to hallucinate future frames of a predator-prey game and then practices inside its own dream. Shah found that a dr…
Cisco senior software engineer Shridhar Shah demonstrated that three minimal AI agents sharing a decaying notepad spontaneously built a persistent culture—a shared story that outlived any individual n…
A developer built a minimal implementation of the Lewis signaling game, where two AI agents invent their own language from scratch without any shared vocabulary. The agents achieved ~97% accuracy in c…
About 82% of the 156,975 tech jobs eliminated globally in the first half of 2026 came from US companies, according to a new report from TradingPlatforms, a UK-based research firm. Almost half of the c…
Empirical Security has raised a $25 million Series A led by Brightmind Partners to tailor exploit predictions to each customer's environment, bringing its disclosed funding to $37 million. The Chicago…
86% of infrastructure leaders surveyed by Spacelift say they are confident in their organization's ability to govern AI, but only 30% have a formal AI governance policy in place, according to Spacelif…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an advanced AI model optimized for cybersecurity and healthcare, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across every major operating syste…
A new wave of open-source AI security harnesses uses large language models to find code vulnerabilities, with tools falling into three categories: LLM-led exploitgen, LLM-skill-boosting vulnerability …
Cisco AI Defense achieved the highest F1 score (0.845) in an independent benchmark by ML6 on 80,000 Dutch-language prompts, demonstrating its effectiveness in multilingual enterprise AI security. The …
Cisco reports its collaboration devices business is growing more than 30 percent year to date, making it the number one provider of intelligent workplace devices at nearly double the size of its close…
South Australia has a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity to become Australia's leading testbed and user of artificial intelligence, according to a new report from Innovation Central Adelaide at Flinde…
Roughly 73% of global organizations have integrated AI into cybersecurity defenses, and nearly all plan to keep investing through 2025, as the AI industry faces rising physical threats and an 'AI vs. …
Former banker Satyajit Das warns that current stock market overvaluation, driven by AI and space ventures like SpaceX, mirrors the dot.com bubble, which caused $5-6 trillion in losses and an 80% Nasda…
A local LLM runs entirely on a user's own device instead of a vendor's cloud server, ensuring data never leaves the machine. Cisco's 2024 Data Privacy Benchmark Study found that 48% of organizations a…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has unveiled Inkling, its first open-weights model, after 18 months of stealth development. The model is designed for customization and…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15th, its first trained-from-scratch foundation model, making the full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license for developers to fine…
NVIDIA released OpenShell, an open-source (Apache 2.0) secure runtime for AI agents that enforces controls at the environment layer rather than the model or application layer, preventing agents from o…
3M joined a Multi-Source Agreement coalition on May 12, 2026, to develop open standards for Expanded Beam Optical connectivity in AI data centers, alongside AMD, Arista Networks, Cisco, Meta, Molex, a…
Arista Networks unveiled its 7060XE7 Series of 1.6 terabit networking platforms on June 9, purpose-built for AI clusters requiring hundreds of thousands of XPUs, with first units scheduled to ship in …
Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin confirmed that approximately 60% of the company's largest contracts now involve AI-related workloads, as the data center operator invests heavily in AI infrastructure. In…