Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

Cisco announced around 4,000 job cuts as part of a restructuring tied to strategic investments in AI, silicon, optics, and security after reporting strong Q3 FY26 revenue; the company will offer departing employees one year of access to Cisco U courses. CEO Chuck Robbins noted increased AI infrastructure sales and participation in Anthropic’s Project Glasswing using the Mythos model to test code, which may drive customers to modernize or replace older security appliances, but the article contains no technical security incident details.