Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of April 11; Updates from Anthropic, Microsoft, Pythian & More

By Tim King , Executive Editor at Solutions Review
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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of April 11, 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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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of April 11, 2025

Anthropic Set to Offer $200/Month Claude Option for ‘Sophisticated’ GenAI

The OpenAI competitor’s move underscores generative AI companies’ race to make their models more lucrative for users, offering the most sophisticated GenAI products. Customers have the option to either pay $100 per month for five times the amount of usage as Anthropic’s Pro plan, or pay $200 per month for 20 times the usage.

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Glean Partners with Internet2 for Higher-Ed AI Discovery

By joining as an Internet2 industry member and participating in the consortium’s Cloud Scorecard, Glean brings the power of its enterprise-grade search, AI assistant, and agent-building capabilities to Internet2’s 500+ member organizations, helping administrators, teachers, and students to discover, analyze, and take action on both internal institutional knowledge and external web data.

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Google BigQuery and Looker BI Set for Agentic AI Makeover

According to Google, the data engineering agent will simplify and accelerate analytics tasks as data practitioners, typically, have to spend a majority chunk of their time creating a pipeline for data and preparing data to get actionable insights from it.

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Globalization Partners Says 91 Percent of Firms Scaling Up AI

The AI at Work Report highlights the transformative impact of AI on modern work and business. The findings reveal executives are ready to push beyond basic AI solutions, harnessing the technology’s potential for increased innovation, optimization and to drive success in a digital-first world.

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IBM Announces New z17 AI Mainframe

IBM Z is built to redefine AI at scale, positioning enterprises to score 100 percent of their transactions in real-time.¹ z17 enables businesses to drive innovation and do more, including the ability to process 50 percent more AI inference operations per day than z16.

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Landbase Unveils New Campaign Feed for Agentic AI

Additionally, Landbase has acquired Delegate, a company specializing in predictive and automated customer success, leveraging its expertise to bring the Campaign Feed and other product innovations to fruition faster. These strategic updates reinforce Landbase’s commitment to providing AI-driven solutions that automate omnichannel sales outreach.

Microsoft Unveils Llama 4 Herd in Azure AI Foundry & Databricks

These models from Meta are designed to seamlessly integrate text and vision tokens into a unified model backbone. This innovative approach allows developers to leverage Llama 4 models in applications that demand vast amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data, setting a new precedent in AI development.

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NVIDIA Unveils Agentic AI Reasoning on Google Cloud

NVIDIA is collaborating with Google Cloud to bring agentic AI to enterprises seeking to locally harness the Google Gemini family of AI models using the NVIDIA Blackwell HGX and DGX platforms and NVIDIA Confidential Computing for data safety.

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Pythian Unveils New Agentspace QuickStart Offering

This new offering is designed to provide businesses with a fast and efficient pathway to leverage the power of Agentspace, putting industry-leading AI and Google quality search to work for their enterprise. Pythian’s new Agentspace QuickStart service enables businesses to rapidly deploy Agentspace, unlocking enhanced productivity, improved decision-making, and faster accessibility to AI-curated insights grounded in enterprise data.

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Red Sky Health Releases New AI Platform Called Daniel

Daniel enables providers to recover lost revenue with unmatched efficiency by using advanced machine learning and generative AI algorithms to analyze historical claims data, identify and correct errors, and streamline the resubmission process.

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Riverbed Adds AI-Based Observability to Main Platform Offering

Riverbed customers are running over 64 million Riverbed AI remediations annually and seeing impressive ROI. At the core of today’s announcement is Riverbed’s expanded AI capabilities that make it easier to manage AIOps and go from reactive to predictive IT operations.

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SigIQ.ai Raises $9.5 Million in Funding for AI Tutoring

This educational disparity has persisted for decades, with personalized tutoring remaining a luxury reserved for the privileged few. The company’s revolutionary approach shifts the cost of personalization from human labor to AI computation, making world-class instruction accessible at unprecedented scale.

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Stanford HAI Drops New 2025 AI Index Report

The 2025 AI Index highlights key developments over the past year, including major gains in model performance, record levels of private investment, new regulatory action, and growing real-world adoption. The report also underscores enduring challenges in reasoning, safety, and equitable access — areas that remain critical as AI systems become more advanced and widely deployed.

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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.

AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 21

Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.

Solutions Review Set to Host IBM for Exclusive Show on Navigating GenAI Challenges in Oil & Gas Asset Management on April 8

Hear from industry experts Carol Lee Andersen, VP of Global Oil & Gas Industry Leader and Ravi Teja Siragam, GTM Product Manager, Maximo for Oil & Gas and take a deep dive into the significant challenges facing ALM in the oil and gas sector, alongside showcasing how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize traditional practices.

Solutions Review Set to Host Radware for Exclusive Show on API Security in an AI-Driven World on April 29

Join us on Tuesday April 29th for an exclusive Solution Spotlight Event: API Security in an AI-Driven World: Stopping Business Logic Attacks. Hear from industry expert: Jeremie Ohavon Senior Product Manager at Radware. Live product demo and Q&A included!

Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Engineering for 2025

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data engineering, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re building real-time ETL pipelines, managing complex data ecosystems, or embedding AI into your operational workflows.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal Writes: AI is More Than ChatGPT

While in some cases it’s fine to use general terms, I think it’s important that we are specific when talking about AI because there are many different types of AI solutions which are based on differing capabilities and functionalities. These differences matter, especially when you are new to the topic or trying to solve a very specific problem.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Gregory Lewandowsky Writes: From AI to Digital Transformation – The AI Readiness Framework

This article explores the changes in AI and its implications for digital transformation within organizations. It presents a framework for assessing AI readiness, focusing on four key dimensions: technologies, activities, boundaries, and goals. The framework aims to help organizations better understand their capabilities and challenges in deploying AI technologies effectively, ultimately enhancing their digital transformation efforts.

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On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’ve added a second Jam Session each month. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

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For consideration in future artificial intelligence news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.

This article was written by Tim King on April 11, 2025

Tim King

Executive Editor

Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.

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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of April 11; Updates from Anthropic, Microsoft, Pythian & More