Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of December 12; Updates from Couchbase, DXC Technology, Qlik & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of December 12, 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 December 12, 2025

Accenture and Anthropic Launch Multi-Year Partnership to Drive Enterprise AI Innovation and Value Across Industries

Accenture and Anthropic formed the Accenture Anthropic Business Group in a multi‑year partnership that will train about 30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude and Claude Code and co‑develop industry‑specific AI solutions. The collaboration is designed to move enterprises from pilots to full‑scale deployment by combining Anthropic’s frontier models with Accenture’s transformation expertise, including a new CIO‑focused offering to scale AI‑powered software development.​

Read more → https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-accenture-partnership

AgentField Launches as the Open-Source “Kubernetes + Okta” for AI Agents

AgentField emerged from stealth as an Apache 2.0 open‑source control plane that gives every AI agent a cryptographic identity, verifiable credentials, and tamper‑proof audit trails, solving orchestration and trust for autonomous software. The platform combines Kubernetes‑style scheduling with decentralized identity, long‑running execution, async orchestration, and policy‑as‑code so teams can run stateful, permissioned agents in production without brittle custom glue.​

Read more → https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/computers-technology-and-internet/agentfield-launches-as-the-open-source-%22kubernetes-okta%22-for-ai-a-1115868

Altair HyperWorks 2026 Delivers Design Efficiency for the AI-Driven Engineering Era

Altair released HyperWorks 2026, adding AI‑ and physics‑based optimization, cloud‑native workflows, and automated model setup to help engineers design products faster and more efficiently. The platform enhances multi‑physics simulation, generative design, and collaboration so teams can iterate quickly and reduce time‑to‑market in automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications.​

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/altair-hyperworks-2026-delivers-design-120000382.html

BrainChip Announces $25 Million Funding Ahead of CES to Power Next-Gen Edge AI

BrainChip secured 25 million dollars in new funding to accelerate development and commercialization of its neuromorphic edge‑AI technology ahead of CES. The company plans to invest in product expansion, ecosystem partnerships, and go‑to‑market efforts for ultra‑low‑power, always‑on AI use cases at the edge.

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251210514718/en/BrainChip-Announces-%2425-Million-USD-Funding-Ahead-of-CES-to-Power-Next-Gen-Edge-AI

Couchbase AI Services Put Enterprises in Control of Agentic AI

Couchbase introduced AI Services to provide an end‑to‑end platform for building secure, performant agentic applications, embedding AI capabilities coherently across its database suite. The services include governance and validation “guardrails” that verify agent actions against enterprise data and business rules before execution, plus partnerships like K2view for synthetic, privacy‑preserving data, so organizations can trace, audit, and control agent behavior at scale.​

Read more → https://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-ai-services-put-enterprises-in-control-of-agentic-ai/

Databricks Introduces GenAI Partner Accelerators for Data Engineering and Migration

Databricks announced new GenAI Partner Accelerators focused on data engineering and migration, providing prescriptive architectures, templates, and best practices co‑built with leading partners to modernize data stacks on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. These accelerators are designed to help enterprises move off legacy ETL and warehouses, unify data for AI, and stand up production‑grade GenAI and agentic workloads faster with proven patterns and partner implementation support.​

Read more → https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-databricks-genai-partner-accelerators-data-engineering-migration

Dremio Survey: Agentic Analytics and AI-Driven Decision Making Are Top Priorities for 2026

Dremio’s 2026 State of the Data Lakehouse & AI report finds that 65% of organizations rank agentic analytics and AI-driven decision-making as top priorities for 2026, with 51% citing productivity and faster innovation as the main reasons to adopt AI. Yet 70% say siloed data and weak governance remain the biggest obstacles, driving a move toward open lakehouse architectures as the foundation for enterprise-wide agentic AI.​

Read more → https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2025/12/10/dremio-survey-agentic-analytics-and-ai-driven-decision-making-are-top-priorities-for-2026/

DXC Launches AdvisoryX and Releases New Global Insights on the AI Execution Gap

DXC Technology launched AdvisoryX, a global advisory and consulting group built on its Xponential AI framework, to help enterprises close the “AI execution gap” identified in a new global study. The research shows that while AI is a board‑level priority for most organizations, 65% lack a clear enterprise AI business case and 94% face serious challenges scaling AI, prompting DXC to offer integrated strategy, technology, and operating‑model guidance.​

Read more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dxc-launches-advisoryx-and-releases-new-global-insights-on-the-ai-execution-gap-302637068.html

Google Cloud Announces Model Context Protocol Support for Google Services

Google Cloud introduced fully managed, remote MCP servers so AI agents and clients can use a unified, enterprise‑ready endpoint to access Google and Google Cloud services via the Model Context Protocol. Initial support spans core APIs, with upcoming MCP coverage for services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, Spanner, Looker, Pub/Sub, Dataplex, Security Operations, and Cloud Logging/Monitoring, enabling richer agentic AI workflows over the full application stack.​

Read more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/google-cloud-announces-model-context-protocol-support-for-google-services/

IBM to Acquire Confluent to Create Smart Data Platform for Enterprise Generative AI

IBM agreed to acquire Confluent for 31 dollars per share to build a smart data platform that delivers trusted, real‑time data flows for generative and agentic AI across hybrid and multicloud environments. The deal will fold Confluent’s streaming and event capabilities into IBM’s Data and Automation portfolio, aiming to simplify integration, accelerate AI deployments, and drive product and revenue synergies across IBM’s software and consulting businesses.​

Read more → https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent-to-create-smart-data-platform-for-enterprise-generative-ai

The Hidden AI Tax: IDC Research Reveals Nearly All Organizations Lose Cost Control When Deploying GenAI and Agentic Workflows at Scale

An IDC survey sponsored by DataRobot found that 96% of organizations deploying generative AI and 92% using agentic AI report costs higher than expected, while 71% admit they have little to no visibility into where those costs originate. Early movers that invested in unified platforms, governance, and cost transparency from the start are pulling ahead, as many others struggle with tool sprawl, multi‑vendor complexity, and IT teams spending nearly half their time stitching AI systems together.​

Read more → https://www.datarobot.com/newsroom/press/the-hidden-ai-tax-idc-research-reveals-nearly-all-organizations-lose-cost-control-when-deploying-genai-and-agentic-workflows-at-scale/

Immuta December Provision Update: Strengthening the Foundation for AI-Scale Data Access

Immuta’s December 2025 provisioning update focuses on removing friction from governed data access across warehouses and AI workloads, with new capabilities to simplify connecting environments, strengthen governance for platforms like Redshift and Databricks, and improve large-scale access decisioning. The company frames these enhancements as critical for a future where AI agents, not humans, are the dominant data consumers, requiring faster, policy‑driven, and intent‑aware access controls.​

Read more → https://www.immuta.com/blog/immuta-december-provision-update/

Informatica Empowers AI Agent Reasoning on Salesforce Einstein 1 Platform

Salesforce highlighted how Informatica is using the Einstein 1 Platform and Data Cloud to let AI agents reason over governed, unified data with better context. By combining Informatica’s data management with Salesforce’s agentic AI, customers can build agents that make more accurate decisions in sales, service, and marketing while maintaining trust, governance, and compliance.​

Read more → https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/informatica-empowers-ai-agent-reasoning/

KnowBe4 Research Reveals 96% of Organizations Struggle to Secure the Human Element as AI Transforms the NexGen Workforce

KnowBe4’s new research shows that 96% of organizations face challenges securing the human element as AI reshapes work, with security leaders citing deepfake‑enabled social engineering and AI‑assisted phishing as rising threats. The study underscores the need for continuous security awareness training, policy updates, and human‑centric defenses that evolve alongside generative AI tools.

Read more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/knowbe4-research-reveals-96-of-organizations-struggle-to-secure-the-human-element-as-ai-transforms-the-nexgen-workforce-302637331.html

Lightrun Brings Real-World Runtime Visibility to AI Code Generation

Lightrun introduced Runtime Context, an MCP-based bridge between AI coding assistants and live environments that lets agents safely add logs, traces, and snapshots in real time. By giving AI tools production-grade telemetry and on-demand debugging across staging and production, Lightrun helps teams ship AI-generated code that reflects actual runtime behavior and improves reliability and deployment speed.​

Read more → https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/10/lightrun-brings-real-world-runtime-visibility-ai-code-generation/

Precisely Brings Agentic AI to EngageOne RapidCX Customer Communications Platform

Precisely added new agentic AI capabilities to EngageOne RapidCX, including Sentiment Analysis, Contextual Rewrite, and Readability agents plus AI Intelligent Search to improve customer communications. These agents coach tone and language in real time, rewrite content with contextual awareness, score and enhance readability, and surface compliant templates and assets so organizations can reduce risk and deliver more consistent, brand-aligned messages.​

Read more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/precisely-brings-agentic-ai-to-engageone-rapidcx-customer-communications-platform-302637320.html

Progress Software Brings Agentic AI to Its Latest Telerik and Kendo UI Release

Progress added Agentic AI features to its Q4 2025 Telerik and Kendo UI release, including an Agentic UI Generator that turns natural‑language prompts into production‑grade, styled application pages. New AI elements such as inline prompts and prompt‑driven data grids let users interact with apps in plain language (for example, “Show all orders from last month”), making enterprise UI development and usage more conversational and efficient.​

Read more → https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-software-brings-agentic-ai-its-latest-telerik-and-kendo

Qlik CEO: Enterprises Are Underachieving on AI Due to Data Readiness Gaps

Qlik CEO Mike Capone warned that most enterprises are “underachieving” with AI because their data strategies, governance, and analytic readiness lag their AI ambitions. Citing IDC research, he highlighted that while organizations are heavily investing in generative and agentic AI, only a minority have the scalable, trusted data foundations needed to deploy these capabilities at scale.​

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qlik-ceo-enterprises-underachieving-ai-133000753.html

Quest Software Opens New Centre for Advanced AI Architecture in Cork

Quest Software opened a new Centre for Advanced AI Architecture in Cork, backed by IDA Ireland, to advance applied AI research, engineering, and product innovation across data management, cybersecurity, and platform modernization. The site will collaborate with Irish universities on AI and cybersecurity skills programs, supporting Quest’s goal of delivering trustworthy AI while positioning Ireland as a hub for enterprise AI talent and technology leadership.​

Read more → https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/quest-software-opens-centre-advanced-ai-architecture-cork

RelationalAI Launches GenAI-Powered Decision Intelligence System on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud

RelationalAI introduced a GenAI‑powered decision intelligence system that runs natively on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, combining knowledge graphs, rules, and LLMs to answer complex business questions. By co‑locating computation with Snowflake data, the system enables governed, explainable reasoning for use cases like pricing, supply chain optimization, and policy analysis without moving data out of the platform.

Read more → https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/11/3203954/0/en/RelationalAI-Launches-GenAI-powered-Decision-Intelligence-System-on-the-Snowflake-AI-Data-Cloud.html

ServiceNow Makes Major Multi-Year Investment to Enable AI Adoption at Scale Across Canada’s Public Sector

ServiceNow announced a CA$110 million multi-year investment to help Canada’s public sector adopt AI at scale, including Canadian‑hosted, AI‑ready infrastructure, advanced data and security controls, and a new Canada Centre of Excellence with about 100 new high‑skilled roles. The initiative deepens ServiceNow’s Canadian footprint and aims to support federal, provincial, and municipal agencies in modernizing services and building digitally sovereign, AI‑enabled operations.​

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251208982450/en/ServiceNow-Makes-Major-Multi-Year-Investment-to-Enable-AI-Adoption-at-Scale-Across-Canadas-Public-Sector

Thales Launches AI Security Fabric, Providing AI Runtime Security for Agentic AI and LLM-Powered Applications

Thales launched AI Security Fabric, a runtime security layer designed to monitor and control agentic AI and LLM‑based applications, focusing on data exfiltration, prompt injection, and unsafe actions. The fabric integrates with existing security stacks to provide policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and continuous protection for AI workloads in production.

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251211710650/en/Thales-Launches-AI-Security-Fabric-Providing-AI-Runtime-Security-for-Agentic-AI-and-LLM-Powered-Applications

Xactly Unveils New AI Agents to Transform Incentive Compensation Management

Xactly launched Incent AI Agents on the Xactly Intelligent Revenue Platform, using two decades of proprietary compensation data to help organizations design, simulate, and manage incentive plans more quickly and accurately. The agents support tasks such as plan modeling, impact analysis, and policy optimization, aiming to move sales performance management from manual, spreadsheet‑driven work to continuous, data‑driven revenue optimization.​

Read more → https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/computers-technology-and-internet/xactly-unveils-new-ai-agents-to-transform-incentive-compensation-1115590

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