Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of April 25; Updates from Accenture, Huawei, Salesforce & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 2, 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 May 2, 2025
Acceldata Unveils AI Anomaly Detection for Agentic Data Management
Acceldata Adaptive AI not only identifies one-dimensional errors, but also pinpoints new hidden anomalies across multiple data dimensions, reducing manual analysis that previously took weeks to minutes. It brings business-level clarity to anomaly detection, not just data-level alerts.
Accenture Unveils Trusted Agent Huddle for Multi-System AI Agents
Agents developed by enterprise users will be able to seamlessly work together in a single platform, allowing organizations to select and manage the right agents for specific tasks and business objectives.
Akka Adds New Deployment Methods for Large-Scale Agentic AI
Akka offers two ways to build applications, an SDK and the Akka libraries. The SDK includes components with a local console, debugger, and runtime, while the libraries are open-source modules for creating distributed systems including actors, networking, streams, persistence, and clustering.
Appian Introduces New Agentic AI Enhancements
These updates include the beta launch of Agent Studio and the general availability of AI Document Center. Other enhancements include expanded data fabric support for document management, semantic search across data and documents, and the ability for Appian UIs to incorporate common form headers automatically.
Argonne Says GenAI Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery
A recent study by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory provides one of the first real-world examinations of generative AI tools — specifically large language models (LLMs) — within a national lab setting.
ConductorOne Debuts a Multi-Agent Identity Security Platform
The new platform features a suite of AI agents for automating identity operations and protecting every identity, including human, non-human, and AI. Its features include multiple agents for handling access requests, an AI Copilot that provides instant context about risk factors, and Thomas, an AI helpdesk agent designed to automate requests and reduce the volume of access-related tickets.
Dataminr Drops New Intel Agents Capability
Dataminr said Monday that Intel Agents will augment its ReGenAI offering, which was released in 2024. ReGenAI is a generative AI system that automatically regenerates textual descriptions of events as new updates emerge.
Huawei Unveils New AI Data Lake
By integrating data storage, data management, resource management, and the AI toolchain, the AI Data Lake Solution delivers a high-quality AI corpus and speeds up model training and inference, empowering enterprises to embrace AI.
IBM Launches Agentic AI System for Security Operations
ATOM’s agentic AI engine leverages multiple individual agents to augment the existing security analytics a company works with. This will help them accelerate threat detection efforts, analyze alerts with additional contextualization, perform risk analyses, execute investigation plans, and perform remediation actions.
NVIDIA Announces DOCA Software Framework
Running on the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform, NVIDIA DOCA Argus is designed to operate on every node to immediately detect and respond to attacks on AI workloads, all while integrating seamlessly with enterprise security systems to deliver instant threat insights.
Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Protect AI
The strategic acquisition reinforces Palo Alto Networks’ commitment to the continued expansion of its capabilities to protect the dynamic new attack surface created by the explosion of AI. Protect AI’s CEO, founders, and employees are expected to join Palo Alto Networks once the deal closes.
Precisely Drops New Observability for AI Innovation Study
As organizations scale their use of AI, observability has become a foundational requirement for ensuring transparency, accountability, and performance across data ecosystems. The research reveals that while many companies have taken significant steps to formalize observability programs, progress varies across disciplines. Differences in program maturity, measurement practices, and regional adoption trends all point to areas that still require attention.
Pythian Announced its Acquisition of Rittman Mead
With the acquisition of Rittman Mead, Pythian gains notable business intelligence and analytics capabilities, an enhanced presence in Europe and access to greater Oracle expertise. The partnership demonstrates an elevated ability to deliver value on business-critical milestones along the data journey, from cloud and data transformations to advanced analytics and AI initiatives.
Salesforce Releases Inaugural AI Research in Review Study
On Thursday, Salesforce launched its inaugural Salesforce AI Research in Review report, highlighting the tech company’s innovations, including new foundational developments and research papers from the past quarter. Salesforce hopes these pieces will help support the development of trustworthy and capable AI agents that can perform well in business environments.
Splunk Releases The New Rules of Data Management: Creating Value in the AI Era Report
From the early days of simple data collection to today’s sophisticated analytics and AI capabilities, organizations are reexamining their data strategies to strike the balance between abundance and utility. This report will help you reimagine your data management strategy, put those practices into play, and make your data do what it was intended to — create value for your organization.
StarTree Announces New AI-Native Real-Time Analytics Tools
StarTree has long delivered on this promise, powering millions of low-latency queries per second on the freshest data available. But new capabilities were needed to extend this foundation and fully unlock the next generation of AI-native applications.
Sendbird Unveils Omnipresent AI Agent for Customer Support
By combining omnichannel continuity, proactive insight, and contextual memory, Sendbird’s Omnipresent AI Agent can meet customers on the channels they prefer to engage on, whether it be web, mobile, email, SMS, WhatsApp, or voice channels, all without losing track of the conversation history.
Tuskira Debuts AI Analyst Workforce
The AI workforce includes analysts for detecting novel attacks, correlating emerging IOCs and TTPs, triaging alerts for detection, and identifying toxic security risks of vulnerabilities based on reachability, exposure, exploitability, business context, and defense coverage.
UiPath Announces Next-Gen Platform Capabilities
With an open and secure orchestration at its core, the platform can transform workflows by enabling the creation, deployment, and management of AI agents, robots, and people with extensive scalability, flexibility, and compliance. Additional capabilities include a controlled agency model, real-time vulnerability assessments, low-code tools for building agents, intelligent document processing, and third-party agent frameworks with systems like LangChain, Anthropic, and Microsoft.
Vectra AI Adds an AI Analyst Agent to Its Solution Suite
Vectra AI also announced several advancements for its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The updated agents can increase security teams’ productivity and workflow efficiencies by allowing analysts to detect, investigate, and respond to the most urgent and critical threats on the modern network. With the addition of the Vectra AI Analyst, the company has completed its AI agent portfolio, which includes the AI Triage, AI Stitching, and AI Prioritization agents.
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.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring James Kobielus: What is AGI?
John talks artificial general intelligence (AGI) with James Kobielus. They explore what AGI is, how it differs from current AI applications, and the technological milestones needed to achieve it. They debate whether AGI is a paradigm or a future capability, discuss governance challenges, and consider realistic timelines for AGI development, with Kobielus viewing it as a focusing function rather than a discrete endpoint.
NEW Episode of The Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Doug Shannon: What is an AI Agent?
Doug and Doug explore the critical distinction between task-based agentic AI and goal-driven AI agents, while tackling the thorny question of workforce transformation with refreshing candor. Shannon presents a practical framework for organizations to build trust, foster adoption, and maintain intellectual property when implementing AI, all while warning about the dangers of “intellectual surrender” in an AI-driven world.
NEW Episode of The Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Syncfusion CEO Daniel Jebaraj: Software Development in the AI Era
He and Doug explore how enterprises are navigating AI adoption amid market uncertainty, as many development teams already incorporate AI tools. Daniel shares Syncfusion’s strategy of making productivity tools more accessible globally, and what he loves and hates about being a CEO.
NEW Friday Jam Session with Cher Fox, Joe Blatly, Jessica Wynter Martin & Gregory Lewandowski: Are You Doing AI or is AI Doing You?
Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosted Radware for Exclusive Show on API Security in an AI-Driven World
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!
On-Demand: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Hosted Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon
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.
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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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