Cisco is eliminating nearly 4,000 positions — approximately 5% of its global workforce — to restructure its cost base and redirect investment toward artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, the networking giant announced alongside better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter results. CEO Chuck Robbins described the company as achieving record revenue and double-digit growth, while framing the redundancies as a strategic shift toward embedding…

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OpenAI has integrated its Codex AI coding agent into the ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android, allowing developers to monitor live environments, review outputs, approve commands, and manage workflows remotely. The update, currently in preview, follows Codex gaining background desktop capabilities last month and a Chrome extension earlier this month — part of a rapid expansion…

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Google and SpaceX are in discussions to deploy data centers in orbit, according to reports, as both companies position themselves at the forefront of a nascent race to move AI computing infrastructure beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The talks coincide with SpaceX’s anticipated $1.75 trillion IPO, in which Elon Musk has promoted orbital data centers as a…

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Dessn, a startup that lets product designers iterate on existing codebases using AI without local setup, has raised $6 million in a funding round led by Connect Ventures, with participation from Betaworks and N49P. The company was founded by Gabriella Hachem and Nim Cheema, who built the tool around the thesis that as AI makes…

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Origin Lab, a startup building a licensed data marketplace between the video game industry and AI labs developing world models, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from SV Angel, Eniac, Seven Stars, and FPV. Angel investors include Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Cruise founder Kyle Vogt. The company,…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. AI coding agents can now run for hours at a time. Sitting at your desk the entire time shouldn’t be a requirement… Or carrying around a computer to keep things moving. Codex going mobile inside the ChatGPT app is OpenAI’s…

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Enterprise leaders must progress past generative applications and scale “autonomous intelligence” to capture real growth. Generating text or summarising internal communications offers localised productivity improvements, yet these abilities rarely alter the core cost or revenue structure of a large organisation. Enterprises are now focused on deploying systems capable of independent execution. Leaders are demanding applications…

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Insider Brief RLWRLD unveiled a robotics foundation model called RLDX-1 designed for dexterous humanoid robot tasks such as grasping, pouring and tool use, with the company positioning the system around contact-rich physical manipulation. According to RLWRLD, the model was developed using Nvidia’s robotics and AI stack and demonstrated benchmark gains across tabletop manipulation, kitchen robotics…

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Insider Brief Construction automation startup Xpanner raised $18 million in Series B bridge funding led by Korea Investment Partners and KB Investment as the company expands its robotics and automation platform across the U.S. construction market. Xpanner said the funding will support expansion of its Automation-as-a-Service platform, which retrofits existing construction equipment with autonomous systems…

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Insider Brief AI chip startup Fractile raised $220 million to develop hardware designed to accelerate AI inference workloads and reduce processing bottlenecks in advanced AI systems. The funding round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund, with participation from several additional venture capital firms and existing investors. Fractile said current AI workloads involving…

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