Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of April 25; Updates from Adobe, Docker, Nexthink & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of April 25, 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 25, 2025
Adobe Extends Firefly App with OpenAI & Google Models
On Thursday, Adobe said that Firefly users will be able to generate images with OpenAI’s GPT image generation, Google Imagen 3, Google Veo 2 and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to a new version of its own proprietary Firefly image model. The company plans to offer models from partners including fal.ai, Luma and Runway in the coming months.
BigID Launches New AI Privacy Risk Posture Management
As AI adoption accelerates, so do the risks. New frameworks like the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and U.S. state-level laws are reshaping expectations around transparency, accountability, and privacy protections in AI systems.
Cube Unveils New Conversational AI Apps for Slack & Teams
Now, finance professionals can query and analyze financial and operational data using natural language—all without leaving the tools they already rely on. The chat-native apps extend Cube’s growing suite of AI-powered capabilities designed to accelerate how FP&A is transforming and eliminate the friction of traditional workflows.
Cyera Partners with HiddenLayer on AI Security
HiddenLayer and Cyera are uniting their capabilities to help customers mitigate those risks, offering a comprehensive approach to protecting AI models from pre- to post-deployment. The partnership brings together Cyera’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform with HiddenLayer’s AISec Platform, creating a first-of-its-kind, full-spectrum defense for AI systems.
Delinea Details New Security Capabilities for Safeguarding AI Innovations
The enhancements will make it easier for enterprises to discover, manage, and secure AI agents, systems, and infrastructure. The upcoming features include Discover AI, AI-Driven Authorization, and Identity AI.
Descope Unveils New Agentic Identity Hub
Notable additions include providing apps an easy way to become agent-ready while requiring user consent, providing agents a scalable way to connect with 50+ third-party tools and enterprise systems, and helping developers using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) protect their remote MCP servers with purpose-built authorization APIs and SDKs.
Docker Launches Two New Model Context Protocol Standard Offerings
The protocol enables AI-powered applications a safe way to retrieve data from external sources, perform operations with third-party services, and interact with local file systems, dramatically increasing the capabilities of their underlying LLMs.
Endor Labs Expands Its AppSec Platform With Agentic AI
These agents are designed to reason about code like developers, architects, and security engineers by reviewing code, identifying risks, recommending fixes, and extending security teams’ capabilities without creating developer friction.
Entro Security Expands Its Non-Human Identity Security Offerings with a GenAI Engine
This announcement comes ahead of RSA Conference 2025, underscoring Entro’s continued innovation and leadership in NHI security. The new engine, powered by large language models (LLM), enriches Entro’s security findings with structured, natural language summaries.
IFS Releases New Industrial AI Features
With industrial AI and sustainability at its core, the new release will incorporate agentic industrial AI capabilities that enable customers in asset- and service-intensive industries to drive value from industrial AI at scale.
OneTrust Announces New AI Tools for Privacy Teams
The latest offerings include AI-assisted workflows, two new AI agents for the OneTrust platform, and a OneTrust Copilot designed to give privacy teams easy access to the exact regulatory, product, and program intelligence they need to keep up.
OPAQUE Confidential AI Tool Goes Live on Azure
By integrating confidential computing with popular data and AI tools, OPAQUE lets enterprises process sensitive data fully encrypted, from ingestion to inference, without costly code rewrites or specialized cryptographic skills.
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Image Generation is Now Available as an API
Pricing for the API separates tokens for text and images. Text input tokens, or the prompt text, will cost $5 per 1 million tokens. Image input tokens will be $10 per million tokens, while image output tokens, or the generated image, will be a whopping $40 per million tokens.
Perplexity Adds AI Voice Assistant to iOS App
If they ask the assistant to find them a table for a specific restaurant, for instance, Perplexity can launch the OpenTable app with the number of people, the date and the time already filled out. The user still has to perform the final action and book a reservation, but it’s already laid out for them — all they have to do is click the button.
Protect AI Partners with Leidos on US-Gov AI Security
The collaboration combines Leidos’ expertise in secure digital transformation with Protect AI’s platform to enhance end-to-end protection against AI threats—including those posed by next-generation agentic AI models.
New Vanta AI Tools Help Firms Evaluate AI Security Risk
As AI evolves and becomes increasingly ubiquitous, demonstrating secure practices and managing vendor risk are critical for maintaining trust. According to Vanta’s State of Trust report, 62% of organizations plan to invest more in AI security in 2025, but only 36% of organizations have, or are in the process of putting a company AI policy in place.
Veeam Integrates with Anthropic MCP
This marks a pivotal moment in Veeam’s AI roadmap, turning data protection into a foundation for smarter decision-making, richer insights, and responsible AI innovation. With MCP, Veeam enables seamless integration between its trusted data resilience platform and customers’ AI applications — allowing data that was once just stored to now drive real-time value.
Workera Says: Disconnect Between Execs & End-Users on AI
The study highlights several areas of disconnect between organizational leadership perceptions and employee realities in AI skills development, exposing the challenges within the current state of workforce transformation. The U.S. was found to have the least formal AI-related business objectives for 2025 and the least implemented overall AI adoption strategies.
Zenity Announces an Integration With OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API
The integration will enable enterprises to secure and govern how their AI Agents are adopted, developed, and used within ChatGPT Enterprise. It aims to equip enterprises with tools for continuous observability, preventing risks at the source, detecting real-time threats, and enforcing policy at scale.
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 Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Tkxel CEO Umair Javed: Start Thinking Like an AI-First Company
Umair shares insights from his 16-year entrepreneurial journey building a global tech services business from South Asia with primarily US clients. The conversation explores the current AI revolution, how businesses are approaching AI implementation despite uncertainty, and how services companies must evolve to deliver value in this rapidly changing landscape.
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.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: AI Risks & Risk Assessments
Organizations that are developing or using AI solutions expose themselves to unique technology and human-related risks, challenges, and security/privacy concerns. This puts an emphasis on the importance for companies to complete risk assessments, identify risk acceptance measures, and define an approach for responding to risks. However, despite perceived high volumes and complexities of risks, most organizations describe their risk management processes as immature.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Doug Shannon: The Turing Test Has Broken, Yet That’s Not the Whole Story
A recent scientific study by Jones and Bergen (2024) revealed that Large Language Models, specifically GPT-4.5, have officially passed the Turing Test. When presented as human in a controlled trial, GPT-4.5 was judged more human than an actual human 73% of the time. That flips the script.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Why Most Data & AI ‘Best Practices’ Are Just Expensive Mistakes in Disguise
There is one thing I’ve often noticed about the phrase, is this, most of what’s touted as a best practice in the world of data and AI is nothing more than a well-dressed mistake. Even worse, it’s often someone else’s mistake, packaged, dressed up and marketed, sold to everyone as THE gospel.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Cher Fox: CGI vs. AI: Unveiling the Similarities, Differences, and Real-World Applications
The buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) is undeniable, but many people often confuse it with computer-generated imagery (CGI) – two transformative technologies that have reshaped industries in remarkable ways. While both simulate elements of reality, their methods, purposes, and impact differ significantly.
On-Demand: 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.
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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.
