AI News for the Week of August 28; Updates from Cisco, Google Cloud, Nutanix & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of August 28, 2026.
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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AI News for the Week of August 28, 2026
Cisco Expands Its Secure AI Factory To Protect AI Infrastructure From Silicon To Agents
Cisco is expanding its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to combine Cisco networking, NVIDIA AI infrastructure, and Supermicro rack-scale compute with security and resiliency controls across the AI stack. The architecture is designed for enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign-cloud deployments, with Cisco positioning AI Defense, Secure Access, Hypershield, firewalls, and Splunk observability as integrated protections for users, applications, data, and increasingly autonomous agents.
Read on for more→ Cisco Expands Secure AI Factory: Can it Outpace PANW & FTNT?
Clearlake And Google Cloud Bring Full-Stack AI Services To Private-Equity Portfolio Companies
Clearlake Capital Group has formed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to streamline portfolio companies’ access to AI infrastructure, data platforms, cybersecurity tools, Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI, custom models, TPUs, and NVIDIA GPU capacity. The program will operate through Clearlake AI Labs and its O.P.S. operating framework, giving investment and operating teams a structured path to deploy AI across businesses such as Alteryx while pursuing use cases from cloud modernization to agentic workflows.finance.
Read on for more→ Clearlake Capital and Google Cloud Partner to Deliver Full-Stack Enterprise AI Across Portfolio Companies
Dataminr Launches AI Intelligence Platform Alongside $318 Million Defense Contract
Dataminr has introduced an AI-powered intelligence platform designed to turn publicly available information into real-time, actionable alerts for public-sector and enterprise security teams. The launch coincides with a $318 million U.S. Department of War contract, signaling growing demand for AI-assisted threat detection, crisis response, and operational intelligence across high-consequence environments.
Read on for more→ Dataminr Launches AI-Powered Intelligence Platform and Wins $318M War Department Contract
Elastic Acquires Deductive AI To Automate Root-Cause Investigation For Engineering Teams
Elastic has completed its acquisition of Deductive AI, adding an AI SRE agent to Elastic Observability that collects evidence, develops and tests hypotheses, and reasons across code, telemetry, and organizational knowledge to identify the causes of production incidents. The technology uses a reinforcement-learning harness to improve investigations over time, supporting Elastic’s effort to move teams from detection to diagnosis and resolution faster without removing engineers from control.
Read on for more→ Elastic Completes Acquisition of Deductive AI
Glean Expands Its Enterprise AI Platform With Desktop Agents, Cost Controls, And Threat Detection
At its Glean:GO conference, Glean introduced Glean Tau, an upcoming desktop workspace that combines its enterprise context layer with local files, applications, code, and current AI models to execute multistep work. The company also expanded model-routing and usage-governance capabilities, added collaborative AI features and interactive dashboards, and previewed context-aware detection of agent behaviors such as data harvesting or exfiltration; Glean says its internal benchmark showed an 81% reduction in token costs versus Claude Cowork.
Read on for more→ Glean Takes On Enterprise AI’s Biggest Bottlenecks: Context Gaps, Rising Costs, and AI Sprawl
Higher Education CIOs Are Urged To Adopt Federated Data Governance For Scalable AI
A new higher-education data-governance analysis makes the case for a federated model that distributes stewardship to the institutional units closest to data while maintaining centrally defined policies, standards, and accountability. This approach can give colleges and universities the shared definitions, data quality controls, access rules, and trust foundation needed to support analytics and AI across decentralized academic, administrative, and research environments.
Read on for more→ Why Higher Ed CIOs Should Embrace a Federated Data Governance Strategy
Kyndryl And Broadcom Expand VMware Services For Sovereign, AI-Ready Private Clouds
Kyndryl has expanded its alliance with Broadcom to provide end-to-end consulting and managed services for VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Tanzu, supporting private and hybrid-cloud modernization for regulated enterprises. The companies will train several thousand Kyndryl specialists and combine VCF with Kyndryl’s Agentic AI Framework, policy-as-code controls, AIOps, cyber recovery, and secure provisioning practices to support governed AI inference and agentic workflows alongside virtualized and containerized workloads.
Read on for more→ Kyndryl Expands Alliance With Broadcom
NielsenIQ Works With OpenAI Deployment Company To Embed Consumer Intelligence In Client AI Workflows
NielsenIQ is collaborating with The OpenAI Deployment Company to extend its Optiq AI product suite and make NIQ’s proprietary consumer intelligence available within customers’ own enterprise applications and AI environments. An expanded Optiq Chat agent and the governed Optiq Bridge delivery layer are scheduled for early September, giving brands and retailers ways to query NIQ intelligence, receive recommendations, and integrate authorized data, models, and generative AI capabilities without exposing its data publicly through ChatGPT.
Read on for more→ NIQ and The OpenAI Deployment Company Collaborate to Bring Consumer Intelligence into Enterprise Workflows
Oliver AI Raises Pre-Seed Funding For High-Performance Agentic Analytics Infrastructure
Oliver AI has raised pre-seed funding from Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures to expand OliverDB, an analytical data platform built for continuous, machine-speed AI-agent workloads. Available as a managed service or in a customer VPC, the platform combines agent-specific data and action policies, auditability across databases and MCP servers, and a multi-model approach intended to improve analytical outputs while reducing token spend; its performance claims are based on internal, non-independent ClickBench testing.
Read on for more→ Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures Back Oliver AI to Redefine Data Infrastructure for Agentic AI
QueryStory Emerges From Stealth With A Traceable Data-To-Decision Agent Platform
QueryStory has launched an agentic data platform designed to connect enterprise data with the organizational context and reasoning needed for defensible decisions. Founded by former Google, Chronicle, EvolutionIQ, and Accenture leaders and backed by Brightmind Partners and New York Life Ventures, the platform offers natural-language access to governed information, continuously rechecks answers as underlying data changes, and records traceable decision context for regulated industries.
Read on for more→ QueryStory Launches a New Class of Agentic Data Platform to Close the Gap Between Company Data and Decisions
Salesforce And Anthropic Embed Claude Reasoning Into Governed CRM Workflows
Salesforce and Anthropic have expanded their partnership with Claudeforce, combining Claude’s reasoning and agentic tool use with Salesforce data, workflows, permissions, and business rules. The first capability, Salesforce in Claude, provides 37 prebuilt sales skills for tasks such as meeting preparation, deal-health review, and pipeline updates, routing actions through Salesforce so enterprise controls remain enforced; select customers can pilot it now, with an open beta planned for September.
Read on for more→ Salesforce and Anthropic Announce Claudeforce: The #1 AI Meets the #1 AI CRM
SandboxAQ Releases Switch To Put Multi-Vendor AI Agents Into Team Collaboration Channels
SandboxAQ has released Switch, source-available software that turns Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and other collaboration channels into shared workspaces where people and AI agents retain common context, history, resources, and rules. Built around MCP, APIs, and adapters, it supports agents created with Claude Code, Google ADK, LangChain, OpenAI, and other frameworks, enabling organizations to integrate and coordinate agents without locking workflows to a single model or agent vendor; the release uses Apache 2.0 with a Commons Clause, rather than an OSI-approved open-source license.
Read on for more→ SandboxAQ Open Sources Switch to Bring AI Agents into Team Workspaces
Thomson Reuters Launches Proprietary Legal AI Model To Pair Domain Expertise With Lower-Cost Reasoning
Thomson Reuters has introduced Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, initially deploying it as the default model for Tabular Analysis, a high-volume document-review capability in its CoCounsel Legal AI assistant. Built from an open-weight foundation model and trained with Thomson Reuters legal content, expert feedback, and tools such as Westlaw and Practical Law, the model is intended to deliver legal-specific reasoning at lower training and inference costs while keeping CoCounsel a multimodel product.
Read on for more→ Thomson Reuters Launches Proprietary AI Model for Legal Work
UMass Amherst Helps Build National Research Data Infrastructure For AI
UMass Amherst is participating in an NSF-funded initiative to create a national data ecosystem for AI research, aimed at making high-value research data more discoverable, accessible, interoperable, and usable across institutions. The effort is intended to give researchers better access to the governed data resources, infrastructure, and collaboration needed to advance AI development while addressing fragmentation across the U.S. research landscape.
Read on for more→ UMass Amherst Helps Build NSF-Funded National Data Ecosystem for AI Research
UTA Recasts Business Analytics Degrees Around Applied And Responsible AI
The University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Business will launch undergraduate and master’s Artificial Intelligence for Business programs in fall 2026, replacing its Business Analytics degrees. The redesigned curriculum shifts from incremental machine-learning additions to AI application across business functions, with coursework in AI ethics, cloud computing, AI seminars, and a capstone intended to prepare students to improve operations, productivity, strategy, and decision-making responsibly.
Read on for more→ College of Business Launches Artificial Intelligence for Business Program
Expert Insights
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1 Million Views: Insight Jam Surges Past 1 Million Site Views & 10 Million on YouTube by Tim King
We’re thrilled to announce that Insight Jam has officially surpassed one million views on Insightjam.com, reaching the milestone at nearly the same time the Insight Jam YouTube channel crossed 10 million lifetime views and more than 1,000 published videos. All this after the Solutions Review channel reached the 250,000 subscriber milestone earlier this year.
Solutions Review Set to Host Red Hat for Exclusive Spotlight Show (The OpenShift Annual Summit) “Modernize Without Compromise on September 22
Join Red Hat experts and customer leaders for a virtual learning experience exploring how organizations are modernizing applications, securing software supply chains, and preparing their platforms for AI with Red Hat OpenShift. Designed for both technical practitioners and IT leaders, this on-demand event features keynote presentations, technical sessions, and real-world customer insights that you can watch anytime.
Solutions Review Set to Host Infinidat for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Prepare for AI-Powered Cyberattacks” on September 2
Join enterprise cyber storage leader Infinidat as we discuss how IT teams can proactively combat agentic AI and other cyber threats, ensuring their organizations are prepared to recover quickly when the inevitable attack strikes. You’ll discover how to easily build and manage cyber-resilient enterprise storage environments, reduce the threat window by automating cyber protection across your data center, and identify compromised data using advanced AI-based cyber detection.
EdTech Series: How Schools Build Durable Skills by America Succeeds’ Michael J. Crawford
Every company can name the durable skills it wants: communication, judgment, collaboration, the ability to solve a problem no one has seen before. Naming them is easy. Building them is the hard part, and most organizations, like most schools, never quite crack it. That is a design problem, not a knowledge problem. And it is solvable. The proof comes from an unlikely place, and the blueprint is more portable than you would guess.
EdTech Series: The Shift From AI That Answers to AI That Teaches by Ashish Bansal
In 2026, the reliability bar is finally being crossed. Reasoning models can now work through a math problem step by step and be right consistently, not just sound confident. At the same time, the cost of that intelligence has dropped significantly. Put those two things together, and for the first time we have the opportunity to give every student a personal teacher that is both accurate and affordable at scale.
EdTech Series: Stop Letting Educational Tech Grade Itself by Laura Spencer, Ed.D.
Adoption is easy because tools are cheap to pilot, fast to implement, and often included in the bundles of products districts are already paying for. Accountability is hard because it requires breaking two comfortable habits: using physical observation as a substitute for proof, and letting the software grade its own homework.
EdTech Series: Don’t Wait for Your State to Write Your AI Rules by Matthew Karabinos, MAT
Pennsylvania, where I work, has yet to give districts a framework. The Pennsylvania Department of Education keeps a page telling schools to read vendor terms carefully, protect student data, and keep a person in the loop when a tool touches grading or discipline. The advice is sound as far as it goes. It stops short of a framework, and it does not answer the question a principal has on a Tuesday afternoon when a parent accuses a teacher of using AI to grade their student’s work.
EdTech Series: Test What Students Can Do Without the Tool by Meryll Dindin
I run technology at a K-12 teletherapy company that places licensed special-education clinicians with students across 27 states, and I spent this summer reading the research on what artificial intelligence actually does to learning. Both jobs keep returning me to the same question, and it is one I rarely hear asked in a procurement conversation: What can a student do once the software is taken away?
EdTech Series: Stop Teaching AI Tools, Teach the Words First by Andy Hu
Every week another district, university or training provider announces an AI literacy initiative. Most of them are built on the same assumption: students and staff lack skills, so we should teach them tools. Prompt workshops. Tool bake-offs. A certificate at the end.
Contributor Series: The AI Paradox: Perfecting the Balance of AI for Consumers by Kathleen Barrett
The world has gone a little AI crazy. It’s understandable. We have powerful new tools that seem to be getting more and more remarkable by the minute, which handle tasks that used to take hours, days, or weeks to accomplish and flips them around in a few seconds. There’s no doubt that AI has given us demonstrable efficiency gains, but there’s also a glaring downside: The endless blather. The noise.
Editors Lens: Zero-Click Search Isn’t New But AI Made it Permanent by William Jepma
I answer engines didn’t introduce zero-click behavior, but they are making it the default. Optimizing for AI answer/search engine ingestion is one of the hottest trends right now, and with good reason. Businesses are building their visibility strategies around being cited by these AI answer engines, which is contributing to the dominance of zero-click search and will only further its growth in the coming months and years.
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The Editors Lens: AI Appreciation Day Quotes and Commentary from Experts, 2026 by William Jepma
As part of this year’s AI Appreciation Day, the Solutions Review editorial team called for the best and brightest minds in the enterprise technology market to share best practices, predictions, and personal anecdotes about the human impact of artificial intelligence. The experts featured represent some of the top influencers, consultants, and solution providers with experience across industries, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.
Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26
AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.
Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning
The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.
We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King
A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”
Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments
The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.
Solutions Review Editors Publish New Whitepaper – Authority with Video & How Marketers Win GenAI Search
This is a market-presence strategy for enterprise marketers who want to move from campaign execution to category influence and even niche building, while also positioning their brands for visibility inside the large language models that increasingly shape how buyers discover, evaluate, and shortlist enterprise tech solutions.
Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI
Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.
Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.
Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.
How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category
Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.
For consideration in future AI news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.
Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor covering the human impact of AI on the future of work and learning. He is also the Media Strategist behind Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube) events and programming. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in multiple categories, Tim is a recognized thought leader in enterprise tech and AI.
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