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Industrial Automation Market Seen Reaching $410.3 Billion by 2031, Wissen Research Says
BusinessNovember 2, 2026, 23:01

Industrial Automation Market Seen Reaching $410.3 Billion by 2031, Wissen Research Says

The global industrial automation market is valued at USD 266.7 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 410.3 billion by 2031, according to a new study by Wissen…

AI security must be built in from the start, speakers tell AI for Good workshop
Safety and ethicsNovember 2, 2026, 13:00

AI security must be built in from the start, speakers tell AI for Good workshop

Security cannot be added to an AI system after development, speakers agreed at a workshop on AI security at the AI for Good Global Summit 2026. Organized with Cisco, the…

Cisco Partner Summit: Exploit Window Shrinks to Eight Hours as AI Agents Start to Act
Safety and ethicsOctober 28, 2026, 13:00

Cisco Partner Summit: Exploit Window Shrinks to Eight Hours as AI Agents Start to Act

Cisco executives told partners at the Cisco Partner Summit in Vancouver that the gap between a vulnerability being discovered and exploited has fallen to eight hours or…

Cisco Expands 360 Partner Program and Opens Cisco IQ to Partners
BusinessOctober 26, 2026, 21:00

Cisco Expands 360 Partner Program and Opens Cisco IQ to Partners

Cisco has announced a set of updates to its Cisco 360 Partner Program, made Cisco IQ generally available to partners, and added new AgenticOps capabilities to Cisco…

Cisco's Liz Centoni Tells Partners AI Services Are Their Next Profit Engine
Products and toolsOctober 26, 2026, 13:00

Cisco's Liz Centoni Tells Partners AI Services Are Their Next Profit Engine

Cisco is pitching Cisco IQ, its now generally available AI-powered digital interface for support and professional services, as a source of recurring revenue for channel…

Business
BusinessOctober 26, 2026, 13:00

Cisco to reward partners who influence deals without making the sale

Cisco is extending its partner rewards to advisors and developers who shape customer buying decisions without completing the sale. The change comes through Ecosystem…

Cisco talent manager helps build AI Presentation Coach inside Vidcast
Products and toolsOctober 21, 2026, 14:00

Cisco talent manager helps build AI Presentation Coach inside Vidcast

Cisco has launched an AI Presentation Coach inside Vidcast, and the project was driven in part by a talent management consultant, not a product team member. Laura…

Products and tools
Products and toolsOctober 20, 2026, 19:09

Personal AI launches MODEL-4, an OS for telecom operators to sell AI per line

Personal AI has unveiled MODEL-4, an operating system that lets telecom operators deliver personal intelligence to every subscriber line as a network service, billed…

Splunk survey: AI agents are outrunning the tools to monitor them
ResearchOctober 20, 2026, 14:00

Splunk survey: AI agents are outrunning the tools to monitor them

Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than they can monitor them, and over half say they cannot control the resulting costs, according to the Splunk State of…

Gong named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 Revenue Action Orchestration Magic Quadrant
BusinessOctober 16, 2026, 17:19

Gong named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 Revenue Action Orchestration Magic Quadrant

Gong, which describes itself as the leading revenue AI company, has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Action Orchestration for the…

Notre Dame, Auburn and Georgetown build AI-ready campus networks with Cisco
BusinessOctober 15, 2026, 14:00

Notre Dame, Auburn and Georgetown build AI-ready campus networks with Cisco

Cisco says Notre Dame, Auburn University and Georgetown University are using its networking and security products to prepare their campuses for AI-driven teaching and…

NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs to OCP to Help Scale AI Factories
Chips and infrastructureOctober 12, 2026, 17:00

NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs to OCP to Help Scale AI Factories

NVIDIA has contributed key Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project (OCP) through its open MGX architecture. The announcement came at the OCP…

NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce Pluggable Optics Form Factor for AI Factories
Chips and infrastructureOctober 12, 2026, 17:00

NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce Pluggable Optics Form Factor for AI Factories

NVIDIA and Cisco have introduced a new pluggable optics form factor designed to help scale AI factories, according to the title of an NVIDIA newsroom release dated 12…

NVIDIA and Cisco Unveil USFP, a 400Gb/s-per-Lane Pluggable Optics Module
Chips and infrastructureOctober 12, 2026, 17:00

NVIDIA and Cisco Unveil USFP, a 400Gb/s-per-Lane Pluggable Optics Module

NVIDIA and Cisco have announced Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new optical module designed to be the first to support 400Gb/s-per-lane electrical…

Cisco Adds Cognite CEO Girish Rishi to Its Board of Directors
BusinessOctober 9, 2026, 22:05

Cisco Adds Cognite CEO Girish Rishi to Its Board of Directors

Cisco has appointed Girish Rishi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of industrial AI company Cognite, to its board of directors. The appointment took effect on…

Cisco brings Claude and OpenAI dots into Webex as AI teammates
Products and toolsOctober 7, 2026, 16:00

Cisco brings Claude and OpenAI dots into Webex as AI teammates

Cisco has introduced a set of agentic collaboration updates at WebexOne 2026, including Claude in Webex built with Claude Managed Agents, an OpenAI dots integration, and…

Products and tools
Products and toolsOctober 5, 2026, 14:00

Tripadvisor and Cisco build an office where AI agents sense, reason and act

Tripadvisor is using Cisco technology to turn its offices into what the companies call an intelligent workplace, where AI agents and connected devices adjust rooms…