The new program helps customers reach transformative AI outcomes faster News summary:   Now live, the Cisco 360 Partner Program, designed to deliver outcomes that only Cisco and its ecosystem can achieve together, showcases the power of partnering with Cisco in the AI era.  New partner designations and tools make it easier for customers to find and build partner teams for today’s needs:

Market-leading ARR growth, margin expansion and net retention underscore accelerating adoption of purpose-built Industrial AI Key highlights FY2025 Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR): +23% YoY  Cloud Revenue: +30% YoY Recurring Revenue: 83% of total revenue Net Retention Rate (NRR): 114% Operating Margin Expansion: +5pp YoY IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, today announced its financial

IVP, CapitalG, and NVIDIA anchor the round as inference becomes the defining infrastructure layer for AI. Baseten, the AI inference company chosen by the new wave of category-defining AI applications, today announced a $300 million financing with IVP, CapitalG, and NVIDIA as anchor investors. This values Baseten at $5 billion and marks the company’s third fundraise

The EU has now singled X out – and this time it’s not political, misinformation based or some nebulous free speech argument. It has to do with porn: Specifically, there’s this question of the sexually explicit images that can be created using Grok, the AI associated with Elon Musk’s platform, and whether some of those were

Organizations need to be less trustful of data given how much of it is AI-generated, according to new research from Gartner. As more enterprises jump on board the generative AI train — a recent Gartner survey found 84% expect to spend more on it this year — the risk grows that future large language models

JetBrains has released Ktor 3.4, an update to its Kotlin-based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side application development. The release brings duplex streaming to the OkHttp client engine and introduces a new HttpRequestLifecycle plugin that enables the cancellation of in-flight HTTP requests when the client disconnects. Ktor 3.4 was announced January 23. Instructions for getting

Descope has announced Agentic Identity Hub 2.0, an update to its no-code identity platform for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The new release gives developers and security teams a dedicated UI and control plane to manage authorization, access control, credentials, and policies for AI agents and MCP servers, Descope said. Unveiled January

Javascript developers should consider moving away from the npm and yarn platforms for distributing their work because newly-found holes allow threat actors to run malicious worm attacks like Shai-Hulud, says an Israeli researcher. The warning comes from Oren Yomtov of Koi Security, who blogged Monday of discovering six zero day vulnerabilities in several package managers

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the DB-Engines ranking, and it is listed as the most deployed relational database by technology installation tracker 6sense. Yet for all