We've got the September edition of The Shift newsletter hot off the digital press! Trust is at the heart of the AI revolution, and we need identity systems that can keep up with tomorrow’s AI agents. Get ready to explore in this edition: 🔹 Outshift Agent Identity Service – Find out how to link to Cisco Duo, Okta, or ORY identity providers to establish trust for MCP servers, A2A, and OASF agents with this new SaaS application. 🔸 Splunk and the future of AI observability – unlocked through AGNTCY 🔹 Trust begins with identity. Join us for our next webinar: The key to autonomous AI agents and MCP servers you can trust for an overview of AGNTCY Agent Identity. 🔸 Emerging tech insights from the Outshift blog There's never been a more perfect time to check out the latest from Outshift by Cisco!
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Tech evolves fast. We evolve faster. We are engineers, architects, strategists, and leaders. We’re innovators, inventors, futurists, and explorers. But we don’t stop there. Here at Outshift, we’re drivers of real change. We are Cisco’s incubation engine. We incubate and deliver what's next and new for Cisco: The next, new emerging technologies for the next new businesses, markets, and personas by prioritizing the next new ways of innovating results. Innovation, full speed ahead.
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Imagine someone materializes inside your house, no knock, no name, no memory. Would you trust them with your most valuable possessions? Probably not. This is the challenge we’ve found with AI agents. They're handling financial transactions, accessing customer databases, and more – often without a clear, verifiable identity. The foundation of trust in any system is identity. That’s why the AGNTCY | A Linux Foundation Project open source project is building the technologies and standards for trusted AI agent and MCP server identity. We’re enabling: ✅ Verifiable badges for agentic services (A2A, MCP, and OASF supported) ✅ Fine-grained access control ✅ Simple policy management Ready to see it in action? Try out the AGNTCY Agent Identity framework in our new SaaS application: https://lnkd.in/gzKYWs8g What are your thoughts on building trust in the age of AI? Let us know! #AGNTCY #InternetofAgents #TrustedAI #IdentityManagement #AIAgents #AutonomousSystems #OpenSource #FutureofTech
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“Our chip can generate up to 200 million pairs of entangled photons per second.” Quantum networking is here. Cisco leaders like Head of Quantum Research Reza Nejabati are building the foundation for secure communications, smarter infrastructure, and scalable quantum networks. Learn how ➡️ https://cs.co/6047fIxJU
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Congratulations, Rafael Silva! What an incredible achievement—we are excited for your next innovation!
The journey to innovation is not always easy, but it is incredibly rewarding. It is with immense pride that I announce the granting of my patent: "High Scalability and End-to-end Consistency for Web Applications in Distributed Environments"! 🚀 This invention is the result of a lot of hard work and dedication to solve a complex challenge: enabling web applications to achieve massive scalability while maintaining real-time data consistency, without compromising the efficiency of APIs like REST and gRPC. It has already been successfully applied across various projects within Outshift by Cisco. This milestone is not just mine. I would like to express my deep gratitude to my incredible teammates, who made this possible: Frank Brockners, Marco Trinelli, Trevor Smith and Tamás G.. Your collaboration and talent were essential. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey. Here's to the next innovations! #Patent #Innovation #Technology #Engineering #Invention #SoftwareDevelopment #Cisco #OutshiftbyCisco
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We've got the latest, can't-miss edition of The Shift newsletter hot of the digital press! In this edition: 🔹 The AGNTCY Collective project has been donated to the Linux Foundation! 🔸 True quantum random numbers are now at your finger tips with Outshift's Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) via API. 🔹 The latest emerging tech insights from the Outshift blog. August may typically be a slow month, but as you can see, at Outshift - we're full speed ahead!
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Explore the latest, can’t-miss edition of The Shift newsletter for big updates, including: 🔹Securing the future of autonomous agents with Agent Identity 🔸Top moments from Cisco Live 2025, featuring Cisco’s quantum entanglement networking chip 🔹Agent Observability data schema and SDK launch 🔸Upcoming webinars, events, and recent podcasts The Shift newsletter has something for everyone inside! See what we’ve been up to and learn how to get involved with emerging tech. 👀 👇 #TheShift #InternetOfAgents #QuantumNetworking #AGNTCY #AgentIdentity
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Vijoy Pandey talks a lot about the “internet of agents” taking over how we do business. He’s so certain about this change, in fact, that he had a hand in creating AGNTCY Collective, a collaborative platform started by Outshift by Cisco, Galileo, and LangChain. Agents are the future of the internet, and while currently they exist within silos, it’s clear that to be the most effective, they will need to communicate. And that’s where AGNTCY comes into play. Their thesis? We need an open, interoperable internet for agent-to-agent communication, and the only way we are going to achieve that is by coming together. That’s why when Vijoy approached OPAQUE to join AGNTCY, it was a no-brainer. With the work we do in the confidential agent space, we know how important agent-to-agent collaboration is going to become—and we want to be a part in bringing this next frontier of technology forward. Vijoy is the guy to talk to when it comes to agentic collaboration. Learn more about his work at Outshift by Cisco and about the coming internet of agents by listening to the full podcast episode. The link is in the comments! #AI #ConfidentialAI #AGNTCY
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💬 “What Galileo is doing with the small language models in Luna is amazing. This is a key step for having a deep evaluation, a total evaluation of this system.” – Giovanna Carofiglio, Senior Director at Outshift by Cisco The challenge of evaluating multi-agent workflows across multiple metrics demands solutions that are not only accurate but also cost-effective and low-latency. This is exactly why we built our new Luna-2 models: to deliver millisecond-level verdicts while staying pennies-per-million-tokens, perfect for always-on evaluation pipelines. Don’t let cost or latency hold you back from building reliable, agentic systems. Thank you for the kudos, Giovanna! Listen to our whole Chain of Thought Podcast with Giovanna and Conor Bronsdon below 👇 #AgenticAI #AIAgents #AIEvaluations #SLMs
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Watch this week’s episode of Galileo’s Chain of Thought podcast to learn about agentic observability and evaluation. Giovanna Carofiglio of Outshift by Cisco and Conor Bronsdon of Galileo break down how AGNTCY Collective is creating the foundation for the next internet era: One where agents communicate across platforms at scale so enterprises and developers can orchestrate complex, multi-agent workflows with ease. Tune in here to learn about the Internet of Agents and key considerations: https://lnkd.in/gudzAdw8 #AGNTCY #InternetOfAgents #OpenSource
The future of AI agents is collaborative and distributed, and AGNTCY Collective is building the infrastructure to enable interoperable, large-scale, distributed agentic communication. AGNTCY is an open-source collective launched in March by Cisco, Galileo, and LangChain, founded on the vision that as AI agents multiply and diversify, they must seamlessly collaborate, even when built on different frameworks and deployed remotely. Just as Cisco helped pioneer the original internet revolution, AGNTCY is creating the foundation for the next internet era: one where agents communicate across platforms at scale so enterprises and developers can orchestrate complex, multi-agent workflows with ease. By providing tools and open standards for distributed agent communication, AGNTCY empowers AI builders to move beyond siloed deployments toward cohesive, interoperable ecosystems. Learn more about AGNTCY in this week’s Chain of Thought Podcast with Outshift by Cisco’s, Giovanna Carofiglio, and our host Conor Bronsdon below 👇 #AIAgents #AgenticAI #AGNTCY