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Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to redirect spending toward AI and cybersecurity

Cisco Systems announced Wednesday that it is eliminating fewer than 4,000 positions, representing roughly 5% of its workforce, even as the company reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its fiscal third quarter. The networking equipment maker framed the cuts as a strategic shift in its cost structure to prioritize investments in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. […]

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Origin Lab raises $8M to bridge video games and AI world model training

As artificial intelligence moves beyond text and images into the physical world, a new bottleneck has emerged: high-quality training data for world models. These models, designed to simulate and understand physical environments for robotics, autonomous systems, and spatial computing, require vast amounts of data that capture real-world physics, object interactions, and movement. Unlike large language […]