Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of August 8; Updates from DataBahn, Oracle, Reltio & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of August 8, 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 August 8, 2025

Concentric AI Unveils Industry-First AI-Powered Deep Data Risk Solution

Concentric AI launched an industry-first product offering deep data risk insights powered by advanced AI. The solution provides organizations with autonomous data monitoring and policy enforcement, helping to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and simplify data protection across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Read the full story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/concentric-ai-introduces-industry-first-120000811.html

D-Tools Joins Stellariq Portfolio Expanding SaaS for AV and AI-Driven Project Management

D-Tools has joined the Stellariq portfolio, bringing its cloud-based software for AV design, proposals, and AI-driven project management to Stellariq’s growing suite of market-leading solutions for technology businesses.

Read the full story: https://stellariq.com/d-tools-joins-the-stellariq-portfolio/

DataBahn AI Launches Smart Agent to End Agent Sprawl and Simplify Endpoint Telemetry

DataBahn AI debuted its new Smart Agent, tackling the complexity of fragmented endpoint telemetry. Unlike traditional siloed agents, Smart Agent provides a unified, cross-platform solution for both agent-based and agentless data collection, reducing operational overhead, boosting performance, and enhancing visibility across security and observability teams.

Read the full story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/databahn-ai-unveils-smart-agent-140000315.html

Elastic Introduces Logs Essentials Serverless for Simplified Log Management

Elastic launched Logs Essentials Serverless, a new lightweight, cost-effective log management service tailored for developers and small teams. It offers seamless scalability, easy setup, and simplified querying to help organizations monitor and analyze logs with minimal operational overhead, making it easier to gain insights from observability data in cloud-native environments.

Read the full story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elastic-introduces-logs-essentials-serverless-130000214.html

Espresso AI Launches Kubernetes for Snowflake to Modernize Data Warehouses

Espresso AI released Kubernetes for Snowflake, a solution enabling dynamic scaling and orchestration of Snowflake workloads using Kubernetes. This innovation provides enterprises with improved resource utilization, operational agility, and automation capabilities for managing data warehouses in cloud environments.

Read the full story: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/08/06/3128428/0/en/espresso-ai-launches-kubernetes-for-snowflake-to-renovate-data-warehouses.html

Google Debuts Diffusion AI Agent, Mimicking Human Writing for Better Enterprise Research

Google has launched a new Diffusion AI Agent capable of replicating nuanced human writing styles to dramatically improve enterprise research and knowledge management. The agent empowers organizations to automate report generation and data synthesis with increased accuracy and relevance.

Read the full story: https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-new-diffusion-ai-agent-mimics-human-writing-to-improve-enterprise-research/

NTT Data Launches Global Microsoft Cloud Business Unit to Scale Agentic AI Transformation

NTT Data has unveiled a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, consolidating expertise in cloud, AI, and security to accelerate digital transformations worldwide. With over 50-country reach and 24,000 Microsoft-certified specialists, the unit will drive agentic AI solutions for enterprises navigating modernization, compliance, and secure cloud adoption.

Read the full story: https://services.global.ntt/en-US/newsroom/ntt-data-launches-global-business-unit-for-microsoft-cloud

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5: A New Era for AI with Enhanced Reasoning and Coding

OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5, its smartest and fastest AI model yet, marking a significant leap towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). The hybrid system uses a standard model for direct answers and a “thinking” model for deeper reasoning, automatically routing queries to the best fit. GPT-5 offers major improvements in accuracy, coding, contextual understanding, and problem-solving, with 45% fewer factual errors than GPT-4o.

Read the full story: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-new-era-of-work/

Oracle Enhances Mission-Critical and Agentic AI Applications with Extreme Availability and Performance

Oracle unveiled new cloud infrastructure features designed to deliver ultra-high availability and performance for mission-critical enterprise applications, including agentic AI workloads. These improvements focus on uncompromising reliability, low-latency processing, and scalability to support demanding AI and business operations, reinforcing Oracle’s commitment to power next-generation AI-driven enterprises.

Read the full story: https://www.bigdatawire.com/this-just-in/oracle-helps-customers-achieve-extreme-availability-and-performance-for-mission-critical-and-agentic-ai-applications/

Qlik Survey Shows Generative AI Tools Rapidly Transforming Enterprise Workflows

New Qlik survey results reveal that generative AI tools—like ChatGPT integrated via Qlik’s OpenAI connectors—are reshaping how businesses handle analytics and decision-making. Organizations report tangible gains in productivity, insight quality, and workflow speed, harnessing both structured and unstructured data for competitive advantage.

Read the full story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qlik-survey-generative-ai-tools-123000772.html

Quest Software Adds Executive Heavyweights to Accelerate AI Innovation and Growth

Quest Software has recruited seasoned executives to lead its AI-driven innovation and business expansion, aiming to strengthen strategic execution and bolster its position in the evolving enterprise AI marketplace. The team will guide product development and operational growth for the next phase of AI-powered solutions.

Read the full story: https://www.quest.com/community/news/b/press-releases/posts/quest-software-adds-executive-heavyweights-to-drive-ai-innovation-growth-and-strengthen-execution

Rackspace Technology Launches AI-Enabled Cloud Management Platform for Hybrid Environments

Rackspace unveiled its Cloud Management Platform, featuring next-gen AI-enabled tools to help organizations unify hybrid and multi-cloud operations. The upgrade brings full-stack observability, intelligent optimization, flexible consumption-based models, and seamless DevOps integration—streamlining digital transformation and enabling strategic IT growth.

Read the full story: https://www.rackspace.com/newsroom/rackspace-technology-launches-cloud-management-platform

Riverbed Launches New AI-Driven Network Observability Solutions for Real-Time Insights

Riverbed introduced its upgraded intelligent network observability platform, with AI-powered analytics and automated root-cause detection. Featuring faster appliances and a flexible subscription model, the new solution helps IT teams manage rising network complexity and proactively solve issues before they impact business, supporting increased performance and value for modern enterprises.

Read the full story: https://www.networkworld.com/article/4034227/riverbed-boosts-its-ai-driven-network-observability-lineup.html

Snorkel AI Secures Strategic Investment from Accenture to Accelerate AI in Financial Services

Accenture Ventures has made a strategic investment in Snorkel AI to help financial services firms transform fragmented data into high-quality training datasets for AI. The partnership focuses on accelerating adoption of data-centric AI solutions that embed domain expertise into AI workflows, enabling banks and capital markets to scale AI safely and reliably.

Read the full story: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/snorkel-ai-secures-investment-accenture-105404311.html

VDURA and NMSU Join Forces on Post-Quantum Cryptography for AI & HPC Data Security

VDURA has partnered with New Mexico State University to pioneer post-quantum cryptography for AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The alliance will integrate NIST-selected PQC algorithms into VDURA’s flash-optimized platforms to secure petabyte-scale, GPU-accelerated workloads—ensuring data pipelines powering next-gen AI remain safe from quantum threats.

Read the full story: https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/08/05/vdura-and-nmsu-partner-to-develop-post-quantum-cryptography-for-ai-hpc-data-infrastructure/

Expert Insights

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What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Spotlight with Broadcom on August 12: The Maturity Model Framework for Successful AI-Ready Networks

Executive leadership is mandating the adoption of AI technologies but 95 percent of network teams report that they continue to have “reactive operations” when responding to performance issues. Additionally, AI will require “near-perfect” network performance for data moves, analysis, training and inferencing. In this session, learn how to mature your Network Observability practice from stage 1 (hyper-reactive) to stage 5 (automated) and move from a “good enough” network to an “AI-ready network.

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What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Spotlight with Nexthink on August 14: Harnessing the Power of AI to Optimize Digital Employee Experience

With rapid developments in artificial intelligence, it’s easy to picture a world where IT Teams don’t need to drown in a list of logs, because it’s already here today. Nexthink uses AI to help organizations make the shift from reactive to proactive to preventative IT management, resulting in continued improvement in digital employee experience and productivity. Part one of this 45-minute session will show you how Nexthink customers are leveraging AI TODAY to make informed decisions for their companies, faster.

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Artificial Intelligence Crisis Management 101: Use the AI Crisis Simulator by Tim King

Enter AI Crisis Simulation—an emerging discipline designed to help organizations prepare for the inevitable. Just as disaster recovery drills and cybersecurity tabletop exercises became essential, AI Crisis Simulation is rapidly emerging as a critical part of enterprise risk management and responsible AI deployment.

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