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Cisco is surging toward record highs after the networking giant reported stronger than expected earnings and announced a workforce reduction designed to free up capital for artificial intelligence investment. The market read it as a strategic pivot rather than a sign of distress, and traders rewarded the stock accordingly, pushing shares into territory not seen in years.
Staying in the AI space, Cerebras Systems is preparing to go public Thursday in what may be the most telling sentiment check the sector has faced in recent memory. The inference chip maker is eyeing a valuation of roughly one hundred times its annual revenue, a figure that would have seemed extraordinary even a year ago, and investors will be watching closely to see whether that appetite holds.
Meanwhile, testimony in the Musk versus Altman trial is pulling back the curtain on Microsoft's early anxieties about its partnership with OpenAI. Senior executives acknowledged under oath that the company feared becoming dangerously dependent on a single outside AI provider, a candid admission that speaks volumes about how the industry's power dynamics were already being felt at the highest levels of corporate strategy.
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