OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model trained to perform offensive cyber operations with fewer refusals, completing 95% of advanced-cybersecurity requests versus 1.5% for stock GPT-5.6 Sol. The model…
Cisco has integrated its AI Defense security platform with Anthropic's Claude Enterprise via inference hooks, enabling real-time inspection of prompts and agent activity to block prompt injection and …
As of mid-2026, the agent protocol stack—MCP, A2A, AP2, and AGNTCY—standardizes how AI agents discover, speak, and transact, but none of it standardizes commitment, leaving systems in unrecoverable st…
Cisco introduced new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Meraki and Catalyst Center, enabling organizations to connect network data to AI-powered assistants, ticketing workflows, and custom appli…
Cengage's Chief Digital Officer, in a Fast Company article, argues that 60% of companies report little value from AI initiatives because they optimize existing workflows instead of redesigning work ar…
Tech layoffs hit record highs in June 2026, with 63,000 workers losing jobs, pushing the information sector's layoff rate to 2.3%, more than double since November 2025 and surpassing the 2008 financia…
Help Net Security's weekly review highlights Cisco's fix for an IMC bug, a Patch Tuesday forecast, and Black Hat USA 2026. In an interview, Stairwell founder and CTO Mike Wiacek discusses Backstory, a…
Cisco is championing an 'Ethernet-first' strategy for AI infrastructure, arguing that Ethernet is becoming the predominant networking technology for AI supercomputing due to its open standards, scalab…
The Open Secure AI Alliance, backed by Nvidia and now comprising over 120 organizations, is drafting the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) cybersecurity guidelines to address threats from agentic AI …
The Linux Foundation on August 4, 2026, published a Request for Comments for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a draft framework that would bind members of the Open Secure AI Alliance to report …
A 2025 MIT Sloan Management Review and BCG study found that 76% of executives view agentic AI as a coworker rather than a tool, but most companies are not training employees to manage AI agents as tea…
Nvidia, Cisco, and CrowdStrike are each developing proprietary AI security frameworks rather than collaborating on a unified standard. Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, 2026, inc…
The Linux Foundation, with the Open Secure AI Alliance's more than 120 member organizations including NVIDIA, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Red Hat, today released a Request for Comments on th…
Cisco Chief Architect Bob Everson testified before the Senate Commerce Telecom Subcommittee on July 30, stating that AI-driven campus and branch traffic will surge by 209% over the next three years an…
Broadcom has joined Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance, expanding the venture's membership from nearly 40 founders to 74, with Broadcom's Infrastructure Software Group leading its involvement. The allia…
Quantum computing, which uses qubits to explore multiple states simultaneously, is emerging as a business priority because it can solve problems intractable for classical computers, including AI train…
Cisco chief architect Bob Everson testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media on July 30, stating that AI is reshaping networks by increasing traffic volume and chang…
Actualyze AI emerged from stealth on August 3 with $7 million in seed funding to launch a platform that governs enterprise AI traffic, routing model calls through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. …
A 2026 survey of 3,472 IT and networking leaders by Cisco and Foundry found that organizations reported an average 34% increase in campus and branch traffic tied to AI over the previous year, yet only…
Cisco warns that frontier AI models like Mythos are accelerating vulnerability discovery, leaving IT teams with an unattainable 8 to 9 hours to patch CVEs, and urges organizations to apply Zero Trust …