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DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs

DeepSeek makes its AI inference engine open source.

Building Trust into Enterprise AI Agents: Cisco AI Defense and Workday Agent Passport

Can responsible AI help connect people with food, shelter, and services in a crisis? Learn how Cisco partner the IRC is using AI as a tool and a teammate to get people fast, reliable answers about humanitarian assistance.

Enterprise work management at Elevate

Northteq unveils suite of AI agents for equipment finance workflows

Connecting people to humanitarian assistance with responsible AI

Enterprise work management takes a new direction at monday.com Elevate 2026 as theCUBE covers AI agents, application development and governance.

Students protest at State House, call for AI regulation

Students rallied at the State House to push lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence and address its risks.

AI agents drive up telemetry costs, complicate network observability

Chicago startup Elanor Labs closes $1.1M round with AI-powered sales grading tool

Chicago founder Elan Yudkowsky just closed an oversubscribed $1.1 million round for Elanor Labs — a startup that grades sales reps like credit scores. Here's how he got the idea off the ground for "probably 1/25 of what it would have cost three years ago.

AI-powered personal assistants could reshape the digital economy

Cisco Splunk research finds more than half of organizations spend more on observability than on the infrastructure being monitored, as AI agents add cost and complexity. The company’s State of Observability 2026 report found that 57% of organizations have observability costs that exceed the cost of the infrastructure being monitored. Another 60% said unexpected billing spikes create more operational strain than consistently high costs, and 55% cannot accurately control their AI expenses.

'Some agents exhibited unintended web-browsing behavior': Tencent admits AI agents it was testing made more than 2,600 attempts in 11 days to slip past Alibaba's map defenses, just to find out which zoo gate people use

Researchers hid a message for a live fleet of rogue AI agents, and the agents wrote back