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Nvidia bets on agentic AI to turbocharge biotech discovery

Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest biotech event with vendors spanning the full ecosystem of companies in this industry. Today in a special address, Kimberly Powell (pictured), vice president and general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Nvidia Corp., made the case that agentic AI is about to do for biotech what it just did for software — and the company’s BioNeMo is the stack that turns generic large language models into working “AI scientists” that are both faster and cheaper to run.

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Nvidia bets on agentic AI to turbocharge biotech discovery

Fabrix.ai demonstrates production-grade agentic operations at Cisco Live

Artificial intelligence dominated headlines and keynotes at every event I’ve attended this year, including the recent Cisco Live 2026. Though the thirst for AI has been insatiable for a couple of years, customer feedback at the event showed that the era of AI curiosity has given way to AI urgency. Information technology and business leaders are no longer satisfied with conversational chatbots or basic AI scribes that merely summarize meetings or draft text. They want systems that proactively identify and resolve problems across their massive, complex IT estates.

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Fabrix.ai demonstrates production-grade agentic operations at Cisco Live

Securing the AI workforce: Zscaler’s zero-trust play for agentic AI

Since Zscaler Inc.‘s launch, the company’s mission has been to disrupt traditional access and security with its Zero Trust platform. At its user event, Zenith Live, in Las Vegas, the company made its case for what its next act would look like: becoming the foundational “zero trust for agentic AI” platform. For enterprises, the keynote by Chief Executive Jay Chaudhry (pictured) highlighted that securing artificial intelligence agents, including their connections, data paths and device footprint, is now a board-level architectural decision, not a bolt-on control, and that this will require a rethinking of security.

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Securing the AI workforce: Zscaler’s zero-trust play for agentic AI

Five takeaways from the Cisco Live keynotes

At Cisco Systems Inc.‘s annual event, Cisco Live, this week in Las Vegas, it was no surprise that artificial intelligence was the top theme of the show and dominated most of the news and product innovations announced. Cisco has been successful in riding the AI wave and using it as a growth engine. Over the past year, revenue and profits have grown, and the stock price has doubled. The company has accomplished this by positioning itself as “critical infrastructure for the AI era” and by revamping its entire product line to back that claim.

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Five takeaways from the Cisco Live keynotes

Zoom’s most recent quarter highlights its transition to a system-of-action company

Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, including investors, channel partners, customers and fellow industry analysts, Zoom is often grouped into the unified communications-as-a-service or the contact center-as-a-service bucket. Zoom was a pioneer in video meetings and has used its expertise in helping people connect to expand its portfolio in several directions.

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Zoom’s most recent quarter highlights its transition to a system-of-action company