Cisco is a technology company that sells networking equipment, security software and collaboration products. Recent coverage has focused on AI security and data-center networking: Cisco AI Defense joined the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, Cisco partnered with Nvidia on optical networking for AI data centers, and its LLM Security Leaderboard expanded to text, image and audio with 102 new evaluations across 136 models. Its 2025 Cybersecurity Readiness Index found 60% of organizations do not know what employees ask GenAI tools.
Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite 98% of Legacy CodeCisco's president brought in a former startup founder and gave him unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months, reportedly telling him to "go nuts." The move shows enterprises betting on AI tools for large-scale code modernization.
Cisco AI Defense joins ServiceNow alliance as founding memberCisco joins the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, integrating Cisco AI Defense's security capabilities with ServiceNow's Super Intelligence Control Tower to link AI model and agent risks to affected business services and owners. Alliance solutions must pass ServiceNow qualification and integration testing before listing.
Cisco, Nvidia tackle AI data center bottleneckCisco is partnering with Nvidia on a new generation of optical networking technology to handle exploding data traffic in AI data centers. Cisco President Jeetu Patel says AI agents consume far more bandwidth than humans, and faster, more power-efficient links could let hundreds of thousands of GPUs work together while lowering AI costs.
NVIDIA opens Vera Rubin architecture at OCP to scale AI factoriesAt the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to OCP via the open MGX architecture, and with partners including Meta, Google and Cisco announced open standards and open-source components covering AI factory design, grid resilience and 400Gb/s networking. The aim is a common foundation for scaling AI factories from megawatts to gigawatts, speeding deployment and improving energy efficiency.
ElevenLabs reportedly valued at $22BVoice AI company ElevenLabs is reportedly valued at $22 billion by investors, with annual recurring revenue pacing at about $600 million. Its voice models power customer service for Klarna, Deutsche Telekom, Cisco, and Adobe, and CEO Staniszewski said businesses should disclose when customers talk to an AI.
Cisco leaderboard adds image, audio AI security testsCisco's LLM Security Leaderboard expanded to text, image, and audio modalities to cover agent risks. Since June 2026 it added 102 new evaluations, totaling 136 models, spanning frontier and open-weight releases from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Meta. Tests include prompt injection and jailbreaks.
60% of Firms Blind to Employee GenAI RequestsCisco's 2025 Cybersecurity Readiness Index found 60% of organizations do not know the specific requests employees make to GenAI tools, as AI adoption outpaces governance and shadow AI creates structural security risks.
Nvidia and Palantir team up on AI supply chainsNvidia and Palantir are partnering to apply AI to supply-chain management, starting with Nvidia’s multi-million-part internal supply chain. Palantir integrates open Nemotron models into Foundry for fine-tuning, while Nvidia’s cuOpt handles scenario planning and optimization; deployments can run on-premises or in cloud via a Sovereign AI OS reference architecture.
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