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Today, CRN released its 2026 Channel Leaders list, and I’m proud to see so many Cisco leaders being recognized. We are here for our partners. Partners drive our business. In 26 years at Cisco, I’ve learned that the best leaders consistently demonstrate accountability, honest communication, but most importantly teamwork—no one wins alone in this ecosystem. … Read more
Business operations leaders feel pressure around AI every day. Expectations are high and management is eager to see results. Investments are therefore still growing rapidly. Yet for many businesses, tangible and repeatable returns remain elusive. AI pilots are promising, but too often fail to integrate into day-to-day operations. The underlying challenge is friction caused by … Read more
If you want to talk about developer productivity in the AI era, you have to talk about delivery performance. DORA metrics remain a stubborn reality check because they measure throughput and stability rather than volume: change implementation time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and recovery time. The SPACE framework is also useful because it reminds … Read more
Another way to frame the dichotomy is risk tolerance. “If mistakes could cost money, reputation or compliance, use official channels,” says Singh. “If you’re improving the decision with additional data, scraping may be enough.” From this perspective, web scraping becomes more of an enhancement for AI agents—a way to add contextual, hard-to-integrate public data, as … Read more
As part of the Trump administration’s trade policy, it is negotiating Agreements on Reciprocal Trade (ART) as a practical framework for rebalancing trade relations and expanding market access for US companies. Through ART negotiations, U.S. officials (at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Departments of Commerce and State, among others) are engaging … Read more
Celebrating Innovation: Highlights from Cisco DevNet Partner Innovation Month January 2026 is Partner Innovation Month for Cisco DevNet – a celebration of the transformative work our partners are doing with Cisco APIs and platforms. In four inspiring episodes, we saw how partners innovate, build thriving businesses and deliver real value to customers. Here’s a look … Read more
Matthew Tyson is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. A seasoned technology journalist and enterprise software development expert, Matthew has written for over 15 years on programming, programming languages, frameworks, application platforms, development tools, databases, cryptography, information security, cloud computing, and emerging technologies such as blockchain and machine learning. His work has appeared in leading publications … Read more
To answer the first question, the researchers created a case study they called the GPT-5 package, which they say included all OpenAI offerings available during the lifetime of GPT-5 as a flagship model, including GPT-5 and GPT-5.1, GPT-4o, ChatGPT, and the API, and estimated the package’s revenue and operating costs. All the numbers compiled were … Read more
Microsoft has launched a public preview of the GitHub Copilot upgrade for C++. The company previewed C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot in December. Both previews are available through the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. GitHub Copilot for C++ Modernization helps developers upgrade C++ projects to newer versions of MSVC Build Tools. A public … Read more
Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) have gained significant industry attention in the past year. MCP first caught the world’s attention in dramatic fashion when it was published by Anthropic in November 2024, garnering tens of thousands of stars on GitHub within its first month. Organizations quickly understood the value of MCP as a … Read more
