AI News for the Week of May 15; Updates from HPE, NVIDIA, SAP & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 15, 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 May 15, 2026

6sense Makes RevvyAI Free For Customers And Tightens Enterprise-Grade Guardrails

6sense has opened RevvyAI to all Revenue Marketing customers in open beta and made it generally available for Sales Intelligence users at no extra cost, so revenue teams can use agentic AI across the funnel without separate licensing. To support larger deployments, 6sense is also rolling out Custom Roles, SSO Role & Group Mapping with SCIM, and Audit Log Exports, giving admins granular permissions, automated role provisioning, and SIEM‑ready audit data to keep AI-assisted selling compliant at scale.

Read on for more→ 6sense opens RevvyAI to all customers

Anthropic Brings “Claude For Small Business” To Where SMBs Already Work

Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a packaged offering that embeds Claude into popular tools like QuickBooks, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365 so small teams can automate finance, ops, sales, marketing, HR, and customer service workflows without building from scratch. The bundle includes prebuilt “Claude Cowork” workflows plus monthly Agent SDK credits for paying customers, so even very small businesses can start orchestrating agents across their existing SaaS stack and gradually move from ad hoc chat to repeatable automations.

Read on for more→ Claude for Small Business

Boomi World: New Connect, AI Gateway, And Red Hat Stack Aim At Production Agentic AI

At Boomi World, Boomi announced new platform capabilities—including Boomi Connect, the Boomi AI Gateway, and a partnership with Guru—as part of its May 2026 innovations push to become the “data activation company for AI.” Separately, Boomi and Red Hat unveiled a strategic collaboration to offer a single, integrated stack for deploying agentic AI at scale, combining Boomi’s integration and activation layer with Red Hat’s OpenShift‑based infrastructure to help enterprises manage data sovereignty and AI costs in production.

Read on for more→ Boomi May 2026 innovations and Boomi–Red Hat collaboration

Crunchbase + Snowflake: $113B Has Flowed Into “AI-Ready Data Infrastructure” Since 2020

A new report from Snowflake and Crunchbase finds that more than $113 billion in venture capital has gone to over 1,300 “AI‑ready data infrastructure” startups in the Snowflake partner ecosystem since 2020. Funding has increasingly concentrated into fewer, larger bets—$34 billion across 760 deals in 2021 versus $25.5 billion across 260 deals in 2025—with almost half of all dollars going to machine learning and data science startups and the rest split across security, governance, observability, BI, and analytics as enterprises race to fix data plumbing for scaled AI.

Read on for more→ $113B to AI-ready data infrastructure in the Snowflake ecosystem

Deltek Clarity: Project‑Based Firms Are All In On AI, But Unsure What They’re Getting Back

Deltek’s latest Clarity industry studies show that project‑based firms saw about 15% revenue growth in 2025 and are planning further growth in 2026, but talent constraints and AI uncertainty are biting. Around 90% are using or planning to use AI this year—especially generative AI—yet 45% say they’re unclear on AI ROI, and they cite their top challenges as knowing where to apply AI (62%), integrating AI systems (56%), and managing data and cybersecurity risks (52%).

Read on for more→ Deltek Clarity studies highlight AI challenges

Economist/AI Magazine: Leaders Make AI Deliver By Treating It As An Operating Model, Not A Side Project

Economist Impact’s “How Leading Firms Make AI Deliver” (covered by AI Magazine) argues that top performers treat AI as a transformation of strategy, governance, and workforce design—not just a technology rollout. The report highlights capabilities like clear AI value theses, cross‑functional ownership, redesigned roles and incentives, and strong data/AI governance as the differentiators that turn pilots into scaled, measurable business outcomes.

Read on for more→ How leading firms are making AI deliver

emma Technologies Pulls AI Infrastructure Governance Into The Cloud Ops Platform You Already Run

emma Technologies is expanding its cloud operations platform to close the AI infrastructure governance gap, bringing training, inference, and cross‑cloud AI networking under one unified framework. Rather than add another MLOps silo, emma integrates governed inference templates, cross‑cloud private networking, and multi‑cloud observability into its existing platform, so enterprises can run AI workloads across specialized and hyperscale clouds with consistent governance, security, and visibility from a single control plane.

Read on for more→ emma Technologies closes the governance gap in AI infrastructure

Enterprise Vault Launches As A Sovereign-Ready Archiving Platform For Modern Data And AI

A new Enterprise Vault platform (distinct from legacy products with the same name) has launched as a complete modern archiving solution built for data sovereignty, control, and legal certainty. It focuses on giving organizations fine‑grained retention, governance, and jurisdictional controls across communications and content archives so they can meet evolving regulatory, AI‑safety, and evidentiary requirements while still enabling secure search and retrieval.

Read on for more→ Enterprise Vault launches modern archiving platform

Fisent BizAI Studio Puts Agentic Workflow Design Directly In Business Users’ Hands

Fisent has launched BizAI Studio, a self‑service portal that lets enterprise users design, test, and manage agentic BizAI workflows without going through API‑level configuration. Users can describe a goal in natural language and use the Design Agent and BizAI Actions Framework (Classify, Split, Extract, Verify, Analyze, Tabulate) to build multi‑step automations that mimic how people analyze complex, unstructured, multi‑modal content.

Read on for more→ Fisent BizAI Studio launch

Gartner: If You Skip Semantics, Your AI Agents Get Dumber And More Expensive

A new Gartner brief warns that enterprises deploying AI agents without a semantic layer—business concepts, relationships, and meaning—are seeing inaccurate outputs and wasted AI spending. Gartner argues that grounding agents in semantic models and knowledge graphs tied to trusted data sources is now a prerequisite for reliable autonomous behavior, because agents operating only on raw tables and unstructured text are far more likely to hallucinate, mis-route actions, and drive up token and infrastructure costs.

Read on for more→ Gartner says lack of semantics causes inaccurate AI agents and wasted spending

Glean Says A Strong Context Layer Beats Generic MCPs On Both Quality And Token Efficiency

Glean benchmarked its knowledge graph–backed context layer against off‑the‑shelf MCP servers inside Claude Cowork and found that Glean’s approach was preferred about 2.5x more often on utility, correctness, completeness, and execution quality. Off‑the‑shelf MCP servers also consumed about 30% more tokens on average, with usage spiking nearly 2x on harder tasks, while Glean maintained more consistent token usage—suggesting that a centralized enterprise index and knowledge graph can both improve outcomes and control LLM costs.

Read on for more→ Glean vs. off-the-shelf MCP

HPE Wants One Private Cloud And One Data Platform To Feed Both Apps And AI

HPE is rolling out unified private cloud and data platform capabilities—spanning HPE GreenLake, Alletra Storage, and Ezmeral—to help enterprises modernize apps and get AI‑ready data without stitching together separate stacks. The updates add a richer unified data layer with native file and expanded scale‑out block storage plus agentic AI management, so organizations can manage, protect, and activate data consistently across on‑prem, colo, and public cloud environments.

Read on for more→ HPE delivers unified private clouds and data platforms

IBM Brings Managed Red Hat AI Inference And VM Modernization To IBM Cloud

IBM is launching Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud as managed services so enterprises can plug real-time AI inference and VM workloads into Kubernetes-based infrastructure with built‑in governance. Red Hat AI Inference is designed to operationalize models across hybrid environments, while OpenShift Virtualization Service gives customers a managed path to move VMs onto OpenShift on IBM Cloud VPC Bare Metal servers as a step toward containerization.

Read on for more→ IBM announces Red Hat AI Inference and OpenShift Virtualization on IBM Cloud

Lenovo AI Library Promises One-Week Deployment Of Production-Ready, Industry-Specific Agents

Lenovo has introduced the Lenovo AI Library, a catalog of production‑ready AI agents and use cases delivered as part of its Hybrid AI Advantage program. The library includes prebuilt agents for workflows such as predictive maintenance, quality inspection, customer engagement, and operations across manufacturing, retail, and healthcare, with independently validated results showing roughly 30% productivity gains and up to 120 hours saved per employee per year.

Read on for more→ Lenovo AI Library for agentic AI solutions

MIT Tech Review + EDB: Sovereign AI Leaders Are Getting 5x The ROI

A new MIT Technology Review Insights report with EDB finds that organizations “deeply committed” to AI and data sovereignty—controlling data, infrastructure, models, and governance—are delivering 5x the ROI on generative and agentic AI compared to peers. With more than half of enterprises already running autonomous agents in production, the report argues sovereignty has become the strongest predictor of AI success, not model choice, because control over where data lives and where models run now shapes both risk and value.

Read on for more→ AI sovereignty and enterprise ROI

Nscale Locks In $790M To Turn Norway’s Narvik Into A Flagship AI Datacenter Campus

Nscale has secured $790 million in new financing from a consortium of banks to continue building out its Narvik, Norway AI datacenter campus, already the country’s largest AI infrastructure project. The deal includes an additional $790 million accordion feature tied to a further 115MW expansion, building on Nscale’s recent $2 billion Series C and $1.4 billion term loan as it positions Narvik as a sovereign, renewable‑powered AI hub for Europe.

Read on for more→ Nscale secures $790M in Norway financing

NTT DATA: Only 15% Of Organizations Have Made The Jump From AI Pilots To Profits

NTT DATA’s Global AI Report, based on a survey of 2,567 senior executives across 35 countries and 15 industries, finds that just 15% of organizations qualify as “AI leaders” with clear strategies, mature operating models, and focused execution. These leaders report materially higher revenue growth and margins than peers, and NTT DATA says the pattern is consistent: once AI and business strategies are aligned, the biggest unlock is picking one or two high-value domains and redesigning them end-to-end with AI under strong governance, rather than scattering pilots across the enterprise.

Read on for more→ NTT DATA Global AI Report

NVIDIA And SAP Team Up To Put Guardrails Around Specialized Enterprise Agents

NVIDIA and SAP are expanding their partnership to bring stronger security and governance to specialized AI agents running on SAP’s Business AI Platform. SAP is embedding NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source runtime for autonomous agents, into SAP Business AI so customers can run agents for finance, procurement, supply chain, and manufacturing with hardened runtimes, policy modeling, enterprise identity integration, and auditing hooks tuned for large, regulated enterprises.

Read on for more→ NVIDIA and SAP bring trust to specialized agents

PwC And Anthropic Broaden Their Alliance To Build The Agentic Enterprise

PwC and Anthropic are expanding their alliance to help clients embed trusted, agentic AI into critical enterprise workflows. The partnership focuses on operationalizing Claude‑based agents across finance, risk, operations, and other domains, combining Anthropic’s models and tooling with PwC’s transformation, governance, and industry expertise so organizations can scale AI responsibly across the enterprise.

Read on for more→ PwC and Anthropic expand agentic enterprise alliance

Randstad Digital: AI Is Boosting Productivity, But A Capability Gap Is Blocking The Payoff

A new Randstad Digital report, “The AI Capability Gap: Why Technology Investment Fails Without Talent Infrastructure,” finds that while enterprises are rapidly deploying AI and speeding development cycles, most are not seeing the expected business impact. Dubbed the “Productivity Paradox,” the issue stems from a widening skills gap: 74% of tech professionals say they must upgrade skills to stay relevant, over half seek training on their own, and more than a quarter believe their organizations are still not doing enough—leading to technical debt and governance problems at scale.

Read on for more→ AI is boosting productivity, but businesses are missing the payoff

Rocket Software Buys Vertica To Bolt High-Performance Analytics And AI Onto Mission-Critical Cores

Rocket Software has completed its acquisition of Vertica from OpenText, folding the enterprise-grade analytics database into its modernization portfolio. The deal brings more than 600 customers and 170 employees to Rocket and is meant to let enterprises run advanced analytics and GenAI directly on trusted core systems—across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid deployments—so they can modernize mainframes and other critical platforms without offloading data to separate analytics stacks.

Read on for more→ Rocket Software completes acquisition of Vertica

SANS Publishes An AI Security Maturity Model That Finally Treats Agentic AI As A First-Class Risk

The SANS Institute has released the SANS AI Security Maturity Model, a staged operational framework that maps AI security to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and OWASP while adding original guidance for agentic AI. Built on three pillars (Protect AI, Utilize AI, Govern AI) and five maturity stages, the model includes program and people indicators, metrics, a target‑setting guide, and evidence‑based scoring—emphasizing that a smaller organization at a well‑documented Stage 2 can be more secure than a larger one claiming Stage 3 without proof.

Read on for more→ SANS AI Security Maturity Model

SAP Uses Sapphire To Pitch The “Autonomous Enterprise” Built On Joule Agents And A Unified AI Platform

At SAP Sapphire 2026, SAP introduced its Autonomous Enterprise vision, anchored by the new SAP Business AI Platform that unifies SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Business AI. On top of that foundation, SAP is rolling out an Autonomous Suite with more than 50 domain‑specific Joule Assistants that orchestrate over 200 specialized agents to run end‑to‑end processes across finance, supply chain, procurement, HR, and CX—for example, an Autonomous Close Assistant that compresses the financial close from weeks to days by automating journal entries, reconciliation, and error resolution.

Read on for more→ SAP Sapphire: SAP unveils the Autonomous Enterprise

Secludy Raises $4M To Turn Privacy-Safe Synthetic Data Into The Front Door For GenAI In Finance

Secludy has raised $4 million in seed funding to help banks, payments firms, and fintechs train and evaluate GenAI models on privacy‑guaranteed synthetic data instead of raw customer records. The platform runs inside a customer’s own cloud and uses differential privacy to generate synthetic datasets that preserve utility while complying with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, so teams can move vendor evaluations and internal AI projects from months of review to days without exposing sensitive financial data.

Read on for more→ Secludy raises $4M to safely unlock proprietary data for GenAI

Veeam DataAI Command Platform Aims To Be The Missing Trust Layer Between Data And Autonomous Agents

At VeeamON NYC, Veeam launched the Veeam DataAI Command Platform, pitching it as the industry’s first unified data and AI trust infrastructure for the agentic era. The platform converges data resilience, security, governance, compliance, and privacy into one trust layer spanning both live and backup systems, anchored by the DataAI Command Graph (300+ connectors), DataAI Security (DSPM plus identity intelligence), and DataAI Governance that enforces control at the data source so even rogue agents cannot touch sensitive data.

Read on for more→ Veeam launches DataAI Command Platform

Expert Insights

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Kaseya for the Spotlight event: AI for IT: Unlocking Measurable Productivity Gains Across IT Teams on June 18

Register now to to hear Chris Swecker, Director of Managed Services at Appalachia Technologies, share practical, real-world insights from leading AI initiatives within small to midsize IT environments. Learn what has worked, what hasn’t and where AI is delivering meaningful day-to-day impact across IT operations — driving efficiency, consistency and smarter decision-making at scale.

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Insight Jam and Donald Farmer Launch Waitlist for New Mesh Expert Group on the Last Mile: Analytics Leadership in the Age of AI

Over twelve monthly sessions, a cohort of just eight senior analytics and BI leaders works through the practical and strategic dimensions of leading in an AI-augmented environment.

The sessions build progressively: early months establish a framework for where human judgment remains indispensable; middle months address the operational pressures, data quality, governance, the proliferation of shadow AI tools, and conversational interfaces that complicate deployment in real organizations; later months turn toward team development, role evolution, and a planning horizon of two years.

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NEW Episode of The Human Conversation with Doug Atkinson Featuring Neil Patel

Neil Patel has the data and insight most marketing experts only guess at. In this episode, he brings it. He and Doug sit down to discuss the fragmentation of search, why GenAI content consistently underperforms human, and what AI is actually changing in marketing. Neil gets into what he’s seen AI do (and not do) for productivity in his own company. Will you use it to augment… or to just coast?

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The Editors Lens: Original Insight Brand Strategy is the Only Standard for AI Search by Tim King

The shift from search engines to answer engines is loud and rewriting the rules of B2B marketing. For years, visibility was driven by rankings, backlinks, and keyword density. Today, large language models synthesize responses instead of serving lists of links, fundamentally changing how brands are discovered. In this new environment, the question is no longer whether your content exists or even ranks. It is whether it contributes anything meaningfully new to the system generating the answer.

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Information Gain Series: Why Organizations Must Redesign Themselves for GenAI

During a recent episode of Insight Jam, Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson sat down with AI executive and transformation leader Matt Lewis to discuss one of the defining shifts of the modern enterprise era: the rise of the AI-native organization. The conversation explored everything from Chief AI Officers and enterprise transformation to AI-native startups, healthcare disruption, digital loneliness, entrepreneurship, workforce change, and the growing need for human-centered leadership in an increasingly AI-powered world.

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Information Gain Series: The Third Wave of Online Education: Why AI-Powered Adaptive Learning is Disruptive

During a recent episode of The Insight Jam Podcast, Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson sat down with Jonathan Cornelissen to discuss what may become one of the defining transformations of the next decade: the rise of AI-powered adaptive learning systems capable of personalizing education at scale.

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Information Gain Series: The Rise of the Solo AI Founder

During a recent episode of The Insight Jam Podcast, Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson sat down with John Rush to discuss how AI agents are enabling a new generation of founders to build, operate, and scale companies with historically small teams.

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Information Gain Series: AI Governance in Cybersecurity Has a Leadership Problem

This is the central argument that emerged from a recent episode of The Cyber Circuit podcast on Insight Jam, featuring former CISO Manju Mude and cybersecurity advisor Michael Morgenstern. The conversation is worth your time. But the conclusions it surfaces point to a broader structural problem that deserves sustained editorial attention.

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Contributor Series: AI Didn’t Kill the CMS: it Promoted it

Today, the model is breaking down as users turn to AI to surface answers directly, often without clicking through pages. According to Capital One Shopping data, more than half of shoppers now use GenAI instead of traditional search for recommendations, fundamentally changing how content is discovered and visibility is earned.

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 4 Now Available: Designing for the Human Advantage

The panel discusses shifting from traditional, knowledge-based learning to experiential models that build “durable skills” like skepticism, adaptability, and judgment. From addressing a workforce crisis where new hires lack essential human skills , to scaling project-based learning , discover how schools and employers can cultivate the uniquely human capabilities that machines cannot replicate.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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