Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of April 18; Updates from BMC, Databricks, NVIDIA & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of April 18, 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 18, 2025
Anthropic Expands the Context Claude has Access to
Anthropic expanded two new capabilities that make Claude a more informed and capable collaborator — Research and a Google Workspace integration that connects your email, calendar, and documents to Claude. With Research, Claude can search across both your internal work context and the web to help you make decisions and take action faster than before.
Auradine Nabs $153 Million in Series C Funding for Blockchain & AI Infrastructure
The oversubscribed round was led by StepStone Group and included participation from Maverick Silicon, Premji Invest, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Mayfield, MARA Holdings, GSBackers and other existing investors.
BCG X Launches New AI Science Institute
The BCG X AI Science Institute will be a groundbreaking hub that brings the power of AI to scientific research, discovery, and innovation—where cutting-edge AI research, academic rigor, and real-world business impact converge.
BMC Unveils New GenAI Features
This innovation accelerates troubleshooting, problem resolution, compliance verification, and workflow optimization so that companies can deliver extraordinary business outcomes. Additionally, the BMC AMI Assistant’s knowledge expert (currently in beta) helps fill the institutional knowledge gaps that can occur when mainframe experts retire with AI-powered agents that deliver instant guidance and provide continuity and efficiency.
CDW Drops 2025 AI Report
The report highlights the top strategies, challenges and use cases as leaders navigate various stages of implementation. According to the research, many IT leaders (62 percent) agreed that their organization has good ideas for AI but have trouble executing those ideas due to a variety of factors.
Cloudera Finds 96 Percent of Firms Using AI Agents
Results show an overwhelming 96 percent of respondents have plans to expand their use of AI agents in the next 12 months, with half aiming for significant, organization-wide expansion. The applications for this deployment include performance optimization bots (66), security monitoring agents (63), and development assistants (62).
Converge Releases Data & AI Design Studio
Companies are prioritizing AI investment as a critical driver for innovation across industries but have faced roadblocks in turning investment into action and creating measurable impact and value from AI. Converge’s Data & AI Design Studio will bridge this gap for IT teams by providing a holistic framework that ensures AI initiatives are impactful, cost-effective, and aligned with business goals.
Corvic AI Secures $12 Million Seed Funding
Corvic AI is pioneering a new era of Data-Centric AI Cognitive Infrastructure — a breakthrough in transforming proprietary enterprise data into actionable intelligence for high-stakes decision-making. This technology fundamentally reshapes how enterprises leverage complex data in the era of generative AI — producing trustworthy, verifiable intelligence at scale with unmatched depth and precision.
Databricks Acquires Fennel
Integrating Fennel’s capabilities into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform will help customers quickly iterate on features, improve model performance with reliable signals and provide GenAI models with personalized and real-time context — all without the overhead and cost of managing complex infrastructures.
Deepgram Drops Impressive Aura-2 Text-to-Speech Model
With Aura-2, Deepgram extends its leadership in enterprise speech technology to TTS, enabling businesses to deliver natural, responsive, and contextually accurate conversations at scale. Today, more than 200,000 developers and 1,200 companies, including Fortune 500 enterprises and voice AI startups like Jack in the Box, Vapi, and OneReach.ai, build on Deepgram.
Hitachi Digital Unveils New HARC for AI
Building on the broader HARC platform launched in 2022, HARC for AI addresses key challenges companies face when scaling AI: unpredictable costs, performance degradation over time, and limited oversight of complex models like LLMs.
Moveworks Partners with Databricks
This expansion of their relationship will enable Moveworks customers to seamlessly harness Databricks AI/BI Genie – an AI-powered conversational interface – directly within the Moveworks AI Assistant.
NVIDIA Set to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in the US
Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.
OpenAI in Talks to Acquire AI Coding Tool Windsurf
Pythian Unveils New AI Readiness Workshop
SnapLogic Updates API Management Tool for the Agentic Age
Fully rearchitected and redesigned, the new easy-to-use APIM solution brings composability, enhanced security, and a highly customizable API marketplace, enabling enterprises to build, manage, and scale API ecosystems with unprecedented agility and efficiency.
Spacelift Unveils New Saturnhead AI
With teams already under pressure to support fast-moving development orgs with the same (or fewer) resources, Saturnhead AI restores the ability of DevOps to move fast and stay reliable—without wasting hours deciphering logs.
Sutherland Partners with Google Cloud
This next phase of the partnership unites Google Cloud’s cutting-edge Gemini models, Vertex AI, and Customer Engagement Suite with Sutherland’s deep expertise in applied AI to reimagine the entire customer lifecycle.
Virtue AI Secures $30 Million in New Funding for AI Security
According to the vendor, his is the first is an algorithmic red-teaming platform that continuously tests AI tools for potential risks — such as hallucinations, privacy leaks, jailbreaks, and prompt injections — and sends results to the company’s security teams.
Expert Insights Section
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 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!
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 1
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 On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8
The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.
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.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve Previews the Exclusive April 18 Jam Session: Is it Time to Rethink How we Connect Our Data & Apps?
Given the changing landscape and the opportunities new technologies and use cases afford, IT leaders must continuously evaluate and improve how their organizations connect their data and applications. To give you a head start on this initiative, we have brought together four experts on Friday, April 18, 2025, Insight Jam Session: Connections: Fun in the New York Times, Essential for Evolving Analytics and AI Apps.
NEW Episode of Insight AI Featuring Doug Shannon: The Turing Threshold
Doug and Doug tackle the momentous news that ChatGPT 4.5 has officially passed the Turing test, fooling humans 73 percent of the time. They explore what this breakthrough means for enterprise adoption, discussing how companies can navigate the overwhelming pace of AI development.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Doug Shannon Offers Commentary on AI Spanning’s Strategic Approach to GenAI Integration
What if AI could span across the entire lifecycle of an automated process, not just as a helper but as a transformative force? That’s the power of AI Spanning, leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) to enhance effectiveness at every stage.
SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal Writes: Why AI is Not Taking Your Job
As an auditor, I know that you have to double and triple check processes to ensure that they are working appropriately, to the standards that have been established, and are compliant with applicable regulations. That means a human always needs to be present to verify all of this. Let’s talk about the concept of Human in the Loop.
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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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