Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of December 5; Updates from AWS, Insight Jam, Salesforce & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of December 5, 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 5, 2025
Algolia Integration With Amazon Bedrock, Unlocking the Next Generation of AI Experiences
Algolia extended its six-year collaboration with AWS by integrating its AI Search and discovery platform with Amazon Bedrock, allowing developers to power generative and agentic AI experiences without adding extra vendors or infrastructure. The integration positions Algolia’s retrieval and relevance engine as the backbone for Bedrock-based applications, accelerating time-to-value, simplifying procurement, and lowering operational costs for AI-powered search and customer experiences.
CData Releases State of AI Data Connectivity Report
CData published its State of AI Data Connectivity report, highlighting how reliable, governed access to diverse data sources has become a critical bottleneck and enabler for enterprise AI projects. The report underscores the need for standardized connectivity and integration patterns so organizations can safely feed AI models with complete, accurate, and compliant data.
Read more → https://www.cdata.com/company/press/state-of-ai-data-connectivity-report/
Datadog Expands Collaboration Agreement, Highlights New Capabilities With AWS Across AI, Observability and Security at AWS re:Invent
Datadog signed a new Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS and unveiled a wide set of capabilities including LLM observability for Amazon Bedrock agents, granular S3 storage management, and AI-powered remediation for Kubernetes and serverless workloads.[functions.fetch_url:0] New previews such as Datadog’s MCP Server integration with AWS DevOps Agent, Kiro-powered debugging, and AI Security for AWS resources aim to help joint customers monitor, optimize, and secure cloud and agentic AI environments at scale.
Digitate Research: Agentic AI Accelerates the Shift to Autonomous IT
Digitate’s new report, “Agentic AI and the Future of Enterprise IT,” based on 600 IT leaders in the U.S. and Canada, finds near-universal AI adoption, with organizations using an average of five AI tools and 74% already deploying generative AI alongside growing use of agentic and agent-based systems. The study reports median returns of 175 million dollars on 71.6 million dollars of AI investment, rising trust in AI (94%), and a trajectory where 74% of enterprises expect to be semi- or fully autonomous by 2030 as IT shifts from cost center to strategic value engine.
Honeycomb Signs Three-Year Strategic Collaboration Agreement With AWS to Accelerate AI Observability in the Enterprise
Honeycomb entered a three-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to advance AI-powered observability, focusing on complex, distributed applications running on AWS. The partnership will bring deeper integrations and co-innovation so customers can more quickly detect, analyze, and resolve issues across modern cloud-native and AI-driven systems.
HPE and NVIDIA Simplify AI-Ready Data Centers With Secure Next-Gen AI Factories
HPE expanded “NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE” with secure AI factory solutions that combine NVIDIA accelerated computing, Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and validated reference architectures to modernize AI-ready data centers. The offering includes sovereign AI factory designs tuned to country-specific regulations and security requirements, helping enterprises and governments securely turn data into value at scale.
IDC Finds AI Agents Transforming Enterprise Work but Raising Security Concerns
An IDC report highlighted that AI agents are rapidly gaining access to sensitive data such as customer records, financial information, and intellectual property, sparking new security fears among enterprises. The study stresses that organizations must treat AI agents as first-class identities, applying least-privilege access, continuous monitoring, and robust identity security controls to safely scale agentic AI.
Read more → https://my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS53971125
New insightsoftware Report Exposes Confidence Gap Slowing AI Adoption Across Corporate Finance Teams
insightsoftware’s report “The AI Confidence Crisis in Corporate Finance” finds that while 58% of finance professionals see AI as essential to their roles, only 39% feel confident using it, revealing a widening confidence and skills gap. Limited time, training, and trust are slowing the shift from experimentation to full deployment, suggesting that enablement and change management, not just technology, are now the main barriers to AI adoption in finance.
Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes Are Now in Public Preview
Pinecone introduced Dedicated Read Nodes in public preview, giving customers exclusive query infrastructure to deliver predictable low latency and high throughput for billion-vector semantic search and recommendation workloads. These nodes scale independently via replicas and shards, avoid noisy neighbors, keep data warm in memory and local SSD, and are priced per node-hour so enterprises can support mission-critical AI services and multitenant platforms with performance isolation.
Read more → https://www.pinecone.io/blog/dedicated-read-nodes/
Salesforce Introduces Agentforce 360 for AWS
Salesforce announced Agentforce 360 for AWS, bringing its agentic AI capabilities closer to AWS data and services so enterprises can deploy AI agents that act across CRM and AWS environments. The solution is designed to help customers orchestrate cross-cloud workflows, automate service and sales tasks, and leverage AWS-native data securely within Salesforce AI experiences.
Read more → https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-360-for-aws-announcement/
SAP Selects TCS in Five-Year Deal to Transform Its IT Landscape
SAP signed a five-year agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to simplify its complex IT environment, accelerate cloud adoption, and strengthen AI-led capabilities across its operations. Building on a decades-long partnership, TCS will streamline SAP’s IT, support its “SAP runs SAP” vision, and help shift to pay-per-use cloud services and modern AI-driven processes that improve agility and business alignment.
Read more → https://www.channelinsider.com/channel-business/tcs-sap-operations-agreement/
Snowflake and Anthropic Announce $200 Million Partnership to Bring Agentic AI to Global Enterprises
Snowflake and Anthropic entered a multi-year, $200 million expansion of their partnership to embed Claude models more deeply into Snowflake Cortex AI and power sophisticated agentic workflows over enterprise data. The agreement combines joint go-to-market initiatives with product co-innovation so more than 12,600 Snowflake customers can build secure, reasoning-rich AI agents directly on their business-critical data.
Teramind Launches ‘Timmy,’ the Conversational Workforce Intelligence Co-Pilot for Data Loss Prevention and Risk Management
Teramind launched Timmy, a conversational AI co-pilot for workforce intelligence that lets security and risk teams ask natural-language questions in Slack to instantly surface behavioral insights for DLP and insider risk management. Early customers report up to an 85% reduction in analyst query time and a 70% decrease in dashboard training needs as Timmy replaces static reports with real-time, conversational access to workforce data and anomaly patterns.
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Insight Jam Podcast: How AI is Transforming Education with Jo Cornelissen
DataCamp co-founder Jo Cornelissen reveals why we’re entering the third wave of online education. It’s going to disrupt everything from corporate training to traditional universities. In this episode, Doug and Jo explore how AI-powered adaptive learning is democratizing personalized education, why the $250,000 college degree model is on borrowed time, and what the bottom-up demand for AI upskilling really tells us about the future workforce.
The Digital Analyst: The Path to Artificial General Intelligence with John K. Thompson
In this episode of The Digital Analyst, John Santaferraro explores the hard truths behind AI’s biggest promises. Thompson, author of “The Path to AGI” and University of Michigan professor, explains why large language models don’t actually think, they retrieve and infer at speeds that create the illusion of intelligence.
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The Jam Session With Wayne Eckerson On-Demand: Why We Need a Universal Semantic Layer
Semantics have always been critical for data and analytics. Semantics are business and technical shortcuts to the raw material that comprises our reports, analyses, and predictive models. They are predefined views and definitions of subjects, dimensions, and metrics that make it easier for people and applications to query data and receive accurate, trustworthy answers.
Contributor Series: Old Talent Management Playbooks Are Obsolete: A New Baseline of Business-Technical Fluency
The rules of technical hiring and retention are being rewritten. The traditional talent playbook which emphasized narrowly defined roles, linear career paths, and four-year degrees, no longer serves the needs of modern organizations. In its place, a new model is emerging, one that blends technical fluency with business acumen and values adaptability over credentials.
Contributor Series: The Strategic Imperative for CFOs to be AI Entrepreneurs
Finance leaders are uniquely positioned to turn data into enterprise intelligence. As agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive planning reshape performance management, CFOs are in the best position to strengthen their organization’s data foundation by driving value-increasing strategies.
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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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