Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of February 27; Updates from Red Hat, Splunk, VAST Data & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of February 27, 2026.
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 February 27, 2026
Agentic AI Foundation Ramps Up With 97 Members And New Working Groups
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), housed in the Linux Foundation, reports 97 Gold and Silver members signed up in its first quarter, more than doubling early CNCF membership growth. In a progress update, new governing board chair David Nalley highlights early technical wins like MCP Apps—the first official Model Context Protocol extension adding interactive UIs—and a deepening collaboration between OpenAI and Anthropic on shared open standards. AAIF has also stood up seven working groups on areas such as identity and trust, observability and traceability, and governance and regulatory alignment, all open to member participation as the foundation prepares to onboard new projects.
Read on for more→ https://aaif.io/blog/aaifs-first-quarter-success-story-new-members-technical-wins-and-open-governance/
Anthropic Maps What Makes “Fluent” AI Users Different
Anthropic’s new AI Fluency Index analyzes thousands of Claude conversations to identify 11 observable behaviors that distinguish highly fluent AI users from everyone else. The research finds that strong users iterate more, ask their models to explain reasoning, and actively probe for missing context instead of accepting polished outputs at face value. Anthropic positions the index as a baseline for measuring AI skill development in education and the workplace, with implications for training, certification, and performance management.
Read on for more→ https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-fluency-index
DataCamp’s 2026 Report Flags Growing Data & AI Literacy Gap
DataCamp’s 2026 State of Data & AI Literacy report finds that 88% of leaders now see basic data literacy as important for day‑to‑day work, and 72% say the same for AI literacy—yet nearly 60% report skills gaps in both areas. Only 42% of organizations provide foundational data literacy training at scale and just 35% have a mature AI literacy program, even as most are willing to pay salary premiums for employees with strong capabilities. The report argues that the bottleneck is less about advanced engineering skills and more about everyday competencies like interpreting dashboards, questioning AI outputs, and applying tools responsibly, urging a shift from one‑off content to applied, role‑relevant upskilling.
Read on for more→ https://www.datacamp.com/blog/the-state-of-data-and-ai-literacy-in-2026-definitions-statistics-and-the-ai-skills-gap
Datadog Taps Sakana AI To Tie Observability To Frontier Model Research
Datadog and Sakana AI have formed a strategic partnership that combines Sakana’s next‑generation foundation model research with Datadog’s observability and security platform. The collaboration spans joint research, product innovation, and go‑to‑market work aimed at helping enterprises monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AI‑powered applications at scale. The initial focus is on large customers in Japan, where Datadog already operates a local data center, before expanding globally as enterprises push for performance, reliability, and data‑residency guarantees in production AI systems.
Draup: AI Is Shrinking Some Fortune 500 Roles While Supercharging Governance And IC Hiring
A new Draup report analyzing 2024–2025 Fortune 500 job postings finds that AI is reshaping hiring more than it is eliminating it, with roles in finance that have high AI augmentation potential down nearly 40% but individual contributor roles up around 30% across several functions. Mentions of AI skills are surging well beyond IT, with steep jumps in areas like customer support, sales, manufacturing, and finance, while demand for “control” skills such as AI governance, model risk, and cost optimization is outpacing classic growth skills. The report also highlights a 17% rise in contractor roles and faster job growth in emerging markets like Kuwait, Belgium, and Qatar as enterprises rebalance where and how they hire for AI-powered operations.
Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-draup-report-shows-how-ai-adoption-is-reshaping-fortune-500-roles-and-hiring-302694824.html
Exabeam: AI-Fueled Security Spending Is Surging, But Accountability Is Lagging
New Exabeam research on the “economics of AI in cybersecurity” finds that 95% of organizations plan to increase security budgets in 2026, with AI and automation cited as the top driver of that growth. Yet many security leaders struggle to measure and communicate the business value of AI investments, creating a widening “justification gap” even as tools and automation proliferate. Exabeam argues that AI accountability—clear ownership, outcome metrics, and board-ready narratives—has become the new mandate if organizations want today’s budget boom to be sustainable.
Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260224474207/en/Exabeam-Research-AI-Accountability-Becomes-the-New-Mandate-as-Cybersecurity-Economics-Shift
IBM And Deepgram Bring Enterprise-Grade Voice Interfaces To watsonx
IBM has selected Deepgram as its first embedded voice partner, integrating Deepgram’s speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs into watsonx Orchestrate and other IBM environments. Enterprise customers can now add real-time transcription, captioning, and natural voice interactions to AI assistants and workflows without stitching together separate voice stacks. The partnership aims to make conversational AI more accurate and scalable for use cases like agent assist, voice-driven analytics, and process automation across regulated industries.
Read on for more→ https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-02-24-deepgram-and-ibm-introduce-advanced-voice-capabilities-for-enterprise-ai
Kion Adds “Lux” AI Agent To Bring Contextual FinOps Into The App
Kion has released FinOps+ v3.15 with Lux, an embedded AI agent that helps teams analyze cloud spend, surface trends and risks, and trigger guided actions directly inside the Kion console. Lux uses Kion’s unified view of accounts, policies, and permissions to answer natural-language questions about budgets, anomalies, and optimization opportunities, then walks users through automated workflows instead of sending them hunting through dashboards. Built to work with multiple LLM providers via Amazon Bedrock, Lux is designed around governance and human oversight so organizations can scale FinOps participation without adding headcount or compromising controls.
Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260224141708/en/Kion-Unveils-AI-Driven-FinOps-with-New-In-App-Agent-Lux
Orca Coins “AI‑Induced Lateral Movement” As A New Post‑Exploitation Vector
Orca Security is warning about AI-Induced Lateral Movement (AILM), a post‑exploitation technique where attackers plant hidden prompt injections in business fields—like EC2 tags or order comments—that downstream AI agents will eventually read. Instead of pivoting via networks or IAM credentials, attackers exploit agents’ ability to autonomously call tools and systems, effectively turning AI workflows into a new lateral movement layer that can span clouds, SaaS apps, and internal systems. The research outlines how organizations should update threat models, validation controls, and AI agent architectures to treat user-controlled text fields as potential code injection surfaces, not just harmless metadata.
Read on for more→ https://orca.security/resources/blog/ai-induced-lateral-movement-ailm/
Pentagon Picks Grok As Anthropic Standoff Exposes AI Policy Rifts
The US Department of Defense has signed a deal to deploy Elon Musk’s Grok AI in classified systems for tasks like intelligence analysis and battlefield planning, marking a major expansion of xAI inside national security workflows. The move comes amid a clash with Anthropic, which has resisted Pentagon demands to allow Claude to be used for “all lawful purposes,” including potentially autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, citing its safety policies and ethical guardrails. As the Pentagon threatens to label Anthropic a supply‑chain risk and shift more work to Grok and other providers, the dispute is quickly becoming a test case for how far AI vendors can go in setting red lines on military use.
Read on for more→ https://www.techtimes.com/articles/314817/20260225/us-department-defense-signs-grok-ai-deal-pentagon-anthropic-clash-over-military-ai-access.htm
Red Hat Launches “Metal-To-Agent” AI Enterprise Stack With NVIDIA Tie-Up
Red Hat has introduced Red Hat AI Enterprise, a unified “metal-to-agent” platform for deploying and managing AI models, agents, and applications across data centers and hybrid clouds. Built on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the platform bundles high-performance inference (via vLLM), tuning and customization, agent deployment, and integrated observability, with expanded hardware support including NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra, AMD MI325X, and even CPU-based SLM inference. Alongside Red Hat AI 3.3 and the co-engineered Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, the company is pitching a way to move enterprises from fragmented pilots to governed, repeatable, production-grade agentic AI at scale.
Read on for more→ https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launches-red-hat-ai-enterprise-deliver-unified-ai-platform-spans-metal-agents
Salesforce Debuts Agentforce For Communications To Turn Telco Interactions Into “Always‑On” Sales Moments
Salesforce has launched Agentforce for Communications, a telco-specific suite of AI agents designed to reduce churn and turn everyday customer interactions into revenue opportunities. Out of the box, telecom providers get domain agents for billing resolution, quoting, site grouping, service-level insights, and guided sales that work across sales, service, and field operations. By running 24/7 alongside human teams and connecting into Salesforce’s data and automation stack, Agentforce aims to help carriers handle higher volumes, close complex deals faster, and turn support visits into upsell and retention moments.
Read on for more→ https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-for-communications-announcement/
Sinch Launches “Agentic Conversations” To Operationalize AI Agents Across Channels
Sinch has unveiled agentic conversations, a suite of capabilities for building, orchestrating, and running AI agents across messaging, voice, and email while plugging into enterprise systems and existing AI stacks. The offering includes Sinch Agent Builder, developer tools like Sinch Functions and Skills, and a broad integration layer so enterprises can use Sinch’s own AI, bring their own agents, or work with partners without getting locked into a single model or proprietary data layer. Sinch is positioning its global communications network—covering carrier-grade routing, compliance, identity, and deliverability—as the trusted fabric that lets agent-driven customer engagement scale securely across markets and channels.
Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sinch-expands-its-platform-with-agentic-conversations-for-ai-powered-customer-engagement-302698343.html
VAST Data Adds PolicyEngine And TuningEngine To Build “Self‑Learning” Agentic AI
VAST Data has unveiled PolicyEngine and TuningEngine, two new services in its VAST AI Operating System that together aim to create secure, trusted, and continuously learning agentic AI systems. PolicyEngine enforces fine-grained, zero-trust controls over what agents can access and how they interact with tools, data, and other agents, while providing tamper-proof traces for auditability. TuningEngine captures outcomes from agent pipelines and uses feedback to automate fine-tuning workflows like LoRA, supervised tuning, and RL, turning AI deployments into closed learning loops that evolve with real-world usage.
Read on for more→ https://www.vastdata.com/press-releases/vast-data-unveils-secure-trusted-self-learning-agentic-ai
Veeam Launches “Agent Commander” To Detect, Govern, And Undo AI Agent Mistakes
Veeam has introduced Agent Commander, billed as the first unified platform to detect AI risks, protect AI systems, and precisely roll back harmful agent actions across production and backup environments. Built on Veeam’s data resilience stack and Securiti AI’s Data Command Center, the product maps data, identities, and autonomous agents into a single graph so teams can uncover Shadow AI, toxic access combinations, and anomalous behaviors. With the ability to “undo” AI mistakes at a granular level instead of restoring entire systems, Agent Commander targets enterprises that want to scale agentic AI while tightening security, privacy, and governance controls.
Read on for more→ https://www.veeam.com/company/press-release/veeam-introduces-agent-commander-to-confront-agentic-ai-risk-at-enterprise-scale.html
Expert Insights
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.
Insight Jam Launches Mesh Lab Episode 2 to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI: The Human Advantage
Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.
NEW Series Live: The Human Conversation with Doug Atkinson Featuring David Linthicum
David Linthicum, former Deloitte Cloud Chief Strategy Officer and 35-year AI veteran, joins Doug to discuss why 90% of AI projects fail, which industries are most vulnerable to disruption, and what happens when the corporate ladder loses its bottom rungs.
Solutions Review Editors Publish New Whitepaper – Authority with Video & How Marketers Win GenAI Search
This is a market-presence strategy for enterprise marketers who want to move from campaign execution to category influence and even niche building, while also positioning their brands for visibility inside the large language models that increasingly shape how buyers discover, evaluate, and shortlist enterprise tech solutions.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Radware for the Exclusive Session ‘Securing Your AI Agents to Embrace Their Full Potential’ on March 5
In the hour-long webinar, the company’s VP of Product Marketing will examine the state of global AI adoption, the concerns it brings, and the tools an organization can and should put in place to utilize the full power of Agentic AI while still protecting its data and business. The conversation will also cover several threats, some of which were discovered and published only latterly.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nexthink for the Exclusive Session ‘AI at Work, Done Right: Driving Safe and Confident Adoption at Scale’ on March 10
Two industry experts from Nexthink will highlight how organizations can utilize Nexthink’s AI Drive and Adopt features to track usage, steer user behavior toward approved tools, avoid misuse of those tools, and teach everyday employees to become confident AI users. The event will also feature a live product demo and Q&A with Nexthink’s experts.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Everpure for the Exclusive Session ‘Beyond Infrastructure: Managing Data Sovereignty in the Agentic AI Era’ on March 17
Solutions Review team has partnered with Everpure to demonstrate how its Enterprise Data Cloud offering can replace manual “ticket-based” workflows with automated, self-service data delivery to provide teams with the data sovereignty and massive agility they need for the era of AI. Reserve your spot now for the hour-long Q&A and demo to gain valuable insights for elevating your AI ventures to the next level!
Insight Jam is Getting Set to Host Donald Farmer for the Expert Briefing: The Last Mile to AI & Why Analytics Leadership Matters on March 19
While AI can generate insights at unprecedented speed and scale, it cannot verify those insights against business reality, interpret them within organizational context, or take accountability when decisions go wrong. That responsibility still belongs to people. In this live Insight Jam session, Donald Farmer introduces the concept he calls the last mile: the critical gap between AI-generated output and trustworthy business action.
Thought Leaders: Reflections from Mesh Lab Episode 2: Dismantle First, Then Build by Dr. Michelle Ament
We do not have a human skills problem. We have a condition problem. And until we are honest about that distinction, every program we build to develop curiosity, adaptability, and judgment will fail for the same reason the last ones did.
The Editors Lens: The Last Mile: Analytics Leadership & Enterprise AI Value by Tim King
The future of analytics leadership development belongs to programs that prepare leaders to own the last mile with clarity, confidence, and authority. Anything less leaves organizations with powerful insight and no one truly responsible for its use.
The Editors Lens: Why Software Review Platforms Are Losing the AI Search War – And What Comes Next by William Jepma
The enterprise software review industry was built around a specific behavioral assumption: a buyer opens a browser, types a query into Google, lands on a comparison page, and filters by star rating and review count. That assumption governed a decade of product development at outlets like G2, Capterra, and Software Advice. It also shaped how software vendors invested in their review presence, incentiviting them to chase volume, recency, and aggregate scores.
AI Future Leaders Launches New Bootcamp: AI Agents: Zero-Code Bootcamp
Are you ready to harness the power of AI automation without writing code? This intensive 5-hour bootcamp is your gateway to building intelligent AI agents that can transform your workflows and boost productivity. Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking to automate business processes, a professional seeking to enhance efficiency, or simply curious about the future of work automation, this bootcamp will give you the practical skills and confidence you need. Use code ‘AIFLJAM50’ at checkout for 50 percent off.
Contributor Series: Data Centers in Space: A Real Solution or a Deflection? by Matt Hasan
The phrase itself does a lot of quiet work. “Data centers in space” suggests a simple relocation, as if today’s terrestrial hyperscale facilities could be lifted intact and reassembled in orbit. That framing is misleading. What’s actually being proposed is an entirely different class of infrastructure, operating in an environment where nearly every assumption that makes modern computing viable breaks down.
Contributor Series: Your Agentic AI is Recreating the Meetings it Was Supposed to Replace by Jeremy McEntire
Every coordinating system—human or artificial—must compress information to function at scale. A CEO can’t process every decision in the company. An AI pipeline can’t transmit every detail between agents without loss. So both compress: summaries, status updates, key judgments, formatted outputs.
Contributor Series: AI Accelerating is Raising the Strategic Value of Domain Names by Matt Overman
The internet is entering a new phase of growth. Artificial intelligence (AI) has accelerated how ideas move from concept to reality, and the volume of new online activity and content continues to grow. This shift is creating new expectations for how people define identity and credibility online.
Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI
Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.
Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.
Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.
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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.com.
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