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Cisco's collaboration platform for video meetings, calling, messaging and contact center, used by about 300,000 organizations.
Cisco will let Webex users @mention AI agents, including Claude, in group spaces from Q1 2027, so the work is shared with the team. Agents used in calls stay visible only to the individual user, a Cisco spokesperson said.
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Cisco used WebexOne to present Webex as the place where people and agents meet on one AI platform consolidated from roughly 250 acquisitions. Many Webex buyers got their first detailed look at that pitch in a keynote about token budgets and agent network load.
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Cisco is putting AI agents into Webex, including a Dialog layer that keeps customer-service agents working on a request after the conversation ends. Most of it arrives in early 2027, SiliconANGLE reported, so buyers signing next year will be judging features with no track record.
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LeapXpert and Cisco put screened, archived WhatsApp client chats inside Webex, an app used at about 300,000 organizations. Whether staff actually move client conversations off consumer apps is something only the archive will show.
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Microsoft has retired the personal tier of Teams in China and added a warning banner, but the abuse lives in provisioning, where whoever created the account keeps the recovery path and the chat logs with it.
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