作者:This article was written by Tim King on May 8, 2025
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 9, 2025.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.
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The newly launched website also highlights AgentSense’s commitment to delivering customizable, scalable, and secure AI solutions that adapt to cross-functional business needs while ensuring transparency, traceability, and responsible AI development. Visitors can explore product features, request a live demo, and learn more about the experienced team behind the platform.
Claude can also refine its queries and conduct multiple searches, using earlier results to inform subsequent queries. Developers can customize this behavior as well as specify domains from which Claude is allowed and not allowed to search.
Barracuda now uniquely delivers adaptive, context-aware protection against emerging attacks with unprecedented accuracy and speed by simultaneously correlating and analyzing diverse text and visual data types – including URLs, documents, images, QR codes, and more.
The federal AI application suite delivers mission-specific AI use cases to help government agencies overcome critical challenges like talent attrition, financial management hurdles, asset downtime, legacy system integration, diverse data quality issues, emerging efficiency mandates, and more.
REVelate 2025, which commissioned BARC to poll 300+ C-level executives, VPs, and directors involved in AI strategy across North American and European enterprises, found stark differences in AI outcomes and priorities across sectors. Finance, life sciences, and public sector respondents identified varying degrees of adoption and use, shedding light on how each industry is incorporating AI infrastructure, tooling, and data to break ahead in their own markets.
Epicor AI is built to cover over 200 use cases across multiple business functions. Epicor Prism is also available for integration with Epicor Industry ERP Cloud, including Epicor Prophet 21 and Epicor Kinetic. These enhancements will help organizations streamline information retrieval, enhance decision making with rapid visual analysis, increase employee responsiveness, fast-track employee onboarding, and process large volumes of data using interactive pipelines and visual cues.
Fastino is also announcing $17.5M in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, the first investor in OpenAI – bringing Fastino’s total funding to $25M. The round included participation from preseed lead investor Insight Partners as well as Valor Equity Partners, and notable angels including Scott Johnston, the previous CEO of Docker, and Lukas Biewald, the CEO of Weights & Biases.
IBM estimates that over one billion apps will emerge by 2028, putting pressure on businesses to scale across increasingly fragmented environments. This requires seamless integration, orchestration and data readiness. IBM is combining hybrid technologies, agent capabilities and deep industry expertise from IBM Consulting to help businesses operationalize AI.
Jitterbit Harmony, which includes iPaaS, App Builder, API Manager and EDI offerings, is designed for line-of-business leaders and IT/IS experts to collaborate on critical automation, application development and orchestration initiatives. The platform empowers both groups to build AI agents that seamlessly integrate with their complex enterprise architecture, driving unprecedented efficiency and innovation while maintaining rigorous control, transparency and accountability.
Agent design typically comes in two flavors – either through blackbox prompt chains or through code-heavy environments accessible only to deep experts – KNIME offers users something in between. The visual workflow-based software is as transparent and flexible as a coding language, but intuitive – allowing for wider accessibility and easier collaboration. It’s also modular, allowing for faster time to value and easy reuse.
The integrated technologies will enable enterprises to access and deploy Kore.ai’s Agent platform, as well as pre-configured business solutions, directly within their Microsoft environments. The intention is to provide seamless AI agent functionality to employees within the Microsoft tools they use most frequently.
Kyvos Dialogs redefines how organizations access and analyze data. By combining the best of human knowledge and artificial intelligence, users can now ask questions in plain English and receive precise, actionable answers—no technical expertise or complex queries required. Kyvos Dialogs delivers best-fit charts and graphs to build compelling data stories.
The updates include intelligent least privilege access, risk remediation policy recommendations, and a new privileged task automation module enabled by Qntrl, Zoho’s unified workflow orchestration platform. These newly added capabilities will help companies automate enterprise-wide administrative routines, enforce least privilege at scale with intelligent, context-aware controls, and reduce security risks through automated remediation.
With global AI spending expected to reach $631 billion by 2028, the report highlights a stark disconnect between enterprise ambitions and production results. Reasons include fragmented systems, inconsistent governance practices, and reliance on manual processes like spreadsheets and emails.
NetApp and Intel have partnered to provide businesses with an integrated AI inferencing solution built on an intelligent data infrastructure framework that allows specific business functions to leverage their distinct data to create outcomes that support their needs.
To give customers a consistent way to build and manage agents across multi-agent, multi-system business processes, spanning both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources, IBM is making its watsonx Orchestrate AI agent offerings available on OCI in July.
OpenAI states that they focused on real-world capabilities by making the models more useful for developers while keeping costs low. Models in this series appear to outperform GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o Mini in multiple evaluations, while also reducing latency and cost.
These NCPs and GPU Clouds can now deliver Serverless Inference as a turnkey service at no additional cost, enabling their customers to build and scale AI applications fast, without having to deal with the cost and complexity of building automation, governance, and controls for GPU-based infrastructure.
Electron acts as an intelligent co-pilot, enabling data analysts and teams to generate precise, context-aware mapping logic across source systems, semantic models, and destination schemas – all through simple conversational interactions.
The collection introduces a suite of out-of-the-box topics and actions that empower employees to get answers and take action with the help of AI agents, all while working alongside HR teams to scale support to more employees and focus on complex problem-solving. Additional use cases include employee program tracking, HR case management, employee detail updates, time off request management, and expense tracking.
True enterprise value from agentic AI comes from building collaborative, intelligence-amplifying systems that work with humans. SAS Viya’s agentic AI framework is underpinned by three pillars that define how AI agents are designed and delivered.
Walmart is an early adopter of the technology, giving developers access to agents designed to identify accessibility gaps in code. Expedia is in the experiment phase, enabling employees to experiment with AI agents as part of a generative AI playground.
As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.
This strategic investment reflects the growing demand from global manufacturers, including those in the automotive sector, seeking to accelerate their digital transformation and AI-driven innovation. Global technology and manufacturing companies like Siemens already leverage Snowflake to transform operations across their businesses with AI and advanced analytics, while maintaining strict security and governance standards.
This rise in usage was fueled by the rapid growth of LLMs, including exceptional improvements in their versatility and reasoning capabilities. Their recent exponential growth, coupled with this vast expansion of AI technologies, has led them to double down on their premise. They want to deploy AI agents in enterprise companies that can perform any job.
Truly autonomous agentic AI depends on access to clean, trusted data and the ability to act on it. Teradata has been powering predictive models and decision engines for decades and is the trusted foundation for AI models. Its integration with ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric ensures joint customers can use AI agents to access enterprise-wide data in real-time.
The report introduces the Digital and AI Readiness Index, which categorizes organizations into four groups – Leaders (17 percent), Strong Performers (54 percent), Emerging Players (26 percent) and Late Adopters (3 percent) – based on their adoption levels across five critical pillars: digital products, platforms and services; enterprise modernization; managing (and modernizing) technology; data modernization and scaling AI (from pilot to production).
The company’s cloud AI solutions are powered by the Unisys Intelligence Accelerator, a customizable technology that includes a structured set of guidelines and component code to accelerate and guide an organization’s solution development, implementation and management.
WisdomAI offers innovative business insight agents that empower organizations with advanced decision-making capabilities. Founded by AI experts that have built market defining companies that are now public, WisdomAI innovates on a first-of-its-kind platform that combines reasoning AI agents with a Knowledge Fabric that understands business context intricacies.
Use of the AI NLQ feature requires an active OpenAI account. Only metadata (columns, data types, reference codes) and user questions are sent to the AI model. No raw data is transmitted, and role-based access controls allow for fine-grained management of the feature.
This breakthrough significantly expands Zencoder’s ability to empower professional developers to ship better software faster through its deep integration with VS Code, JetBrains, and other industry-standard tools.
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