Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of February 6; Updates from OpenAI, Cerebras Systems, Opsera & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of February 6, 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 6, 2026
Cerebras Raises $1 Billion Series H at $23 Billion Valuation to Scale Wafer-Scale AI
Cerebras Systems has closed a $1 billion Series H round led by Tiger Global at a post‑money valuation of about $23 billion to accelerate its wafer‑scale AI infrastructure roadmap. The funding—joined by investors including Benchmark, Fidelity, AMD, Altimeter, and Coatue—will support global expansion of Cerebras systems deployed on‑prem and in the cloud as governments, research institutes, and enterprises choose its hardware to run large AI workloads.
Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/02/04/cerebras-systems-raises-1-billion-series-h/
Cognizant and Uniphore: Domain-Specific SLMs + Agents for Regulated Workflows
Cognizant and Uniphore have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop industry-specific AI solutions that combine small language models with AI agents on Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud, with Cognizant owning solution design, deployment, and delivery. Initial offerings target Life Sciences and Banking/Capital Markets, pairing domain-tuned SLMs with prebuilt agents for workflows like drug discovery, commercial effectiveness, onboarding, and operational decisioning—where accuracy, governance, and regulatory alignment are non-negotiable.
Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cognizant-and-uniphore-partner-to-deliver-smarter-domain-specific-ai-for-the-enterprise-302676037.html
CoreWeave Launches ARENA, a Lab for Production-Ready AI Workloads
CoreWeave has introduced ARENA, an AI production-readiness lab that lets customers run their real workloads on CoreWeave’s AI-native cloud to benchmark performance, reliability, and cost before going live. The environment standardizes large-scale compute, Mission Control observability, and high-speed data paths so teams can close the gap between sandbox tests and production, and predict how applications will behave—and what they’ll cost—at scale.
Read on for more → https://www.coreweave.com/news/introducing-coreweave-arena-new-lab-for-ai-production-readiness
CSA–Strata Survey: Enterprises Enter “Time-to-Trust” Phase for AI Autonomy
A new Cloud Security Alliance survey, commissioned by Strata Identity, finds organizations are in a “time-to-trust” phase where AI agents are scaling faster than identity and security frameworks can adapt, forcing a rethink of identity for autonomous systems. While maturity is still low, 40% of respondents plan to increase identity and security budgets specifically for AI agents—34% with dedicated budget lines and 22% via reallocations—signaling recognition that orchestration, contextual policies, and continuous authentication/authorization are needed to safely enable an ‘agentic workforce’ at scale.
Dassault Systèmes and Nvidia: Industrial AI World Models Grounded in Virtual Twins
Dassault Systèmes and Nvidia have announced a long-term strategic partnership to build an industrial AI platform that combines Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE Virtual Twins with Nvidia’s AI infrastructure, open models, and accelerated software stacks. The joint “Industry World Models” and agentic “virtual companions” are designed to let manufacturers, life sciences, and materials companies design, simulate, and operate complex systems with physics- and science‑validated AI, including Nvidia’s use of Dassault’s model‑based systems engineering to design its Rubin AI factories.
Read on for more → https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/dassault-systemes-nvidia-industrial-ai
ElevenLabs Hits $11B Valuation With $500M Raise
AI voice startup ElevenLabs has raised $500 million in new funding led by Sequoia Capital, boosting its valuation to about $11 billion as it considers a potential IPO. The company, which reported roughly $330 million in ARR last year and aims to double it, counts Nvidia among its investors and plans to use the capital to expand its multilingual voice‑cloning and audio generation platform for consumers and enterprises.
Read on for more → https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/nvidia-backed-ai-startup-elevenlabs-11-billion-valuation.html
EXL AI in Action 2026: Turning AI Pilots Into Embedded Workflows
EXL has announced AI in Action 2026, a global virtual event on March 11, 18, and 24 designed to help enterprises move from AI pilots to scaled deployment by reimagining and embedding AI in high‑value workflows. Targeted at CXOs and technology leaders, the program will cover workflow redesign, making data AI-ready, orchestrating multiple AI agents, and governing AI responsibly, with case studies from organizations that have already operationalized AI for measurable business impact.
Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/exl-launches-ai-in-action-2026-program-to-address-enterprise-ai-adoption/
IBM Impact Accelerator RFP: AI for the Future of Work and Education
IBM has opened a global RFP for the next IBM Impact Accelerator cohort, focused on AI-driven solutions that improve education and workforce development, with selected nonprofits and government organizations receiving two years of pro bono technology and implementation support. The program seeks projects such as AI-enabled teaching and assessment tools, personalized learning and career guidance assistants, data platforms that connect learners to real job opportunities, and simulation/governance environments for responsible AI in education systems.
Read on for more → https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-02-04-ibm-opens-global-rfp-for-ai-driven-solutions-shaping-the-future-of-work-and-education
Kong’s AI Connectivity Vision: A Unified Data Path for APIs, Models, MCP, and Agents
Kong is unveiling its AI Connectivity vision and roadmap, defining an architectural approach—and new category—for connecting, governing, and scaling intelligence across APIs, AI models, MCP connections, and agent-to-agent communication. Centered on Kong Konnect and Kong AI Gateway, the roadmap brings advanced MCP governance, MCP testing in Insomnia, AI cost governance and monetization, and KAi (an agentic API assistant) together to create a unified runtime and governance layer for the full AI data path.
Read on for more → https://konghq.com/company/press-room/press-release/kong-to-unveil-ai-connectivity-vision-and-roadmap
Miro MCP Server: Visual Context in, Agentic Code Out
Miro has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that turns its visual canvases into first-class context for AI coding tools, creating a bidirectional bridge between architecture diagrams, PRDs, and design boards on Miro and agents in tools like Claude Code, AWS Kiro, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cursor, VS Code, Devin, and more. Teams can feed system diagrams and specs from Miro into coding agents for more context-aware generation and then push code-generated diagrams and documentation back to Miro, keeping cross-functional planning and implementation tightly aligned.
Read on for more → https://miro.com/newsroom/miro-launches-mcp-server-to-connect-visual-collaboration-with-ai-coding/
Momentum.io Voice of the Market 2026: AI Adoption Stalls Before Revenue Execution
Momentum.io’s newest Voice of the Market report finds that while 88% of B2B revenue teams say they use AI, only 24% have embedded it into core revenue workflows that write validated data back into the CRM. Based on analysis of more than 2,000 active enterprise deals, the study shows AI is still mostly used in isolated, assistive ways, with tool sprawl (the “four-tool threshold”) and integration failures pushing teams to prioritize consolidation and orchestration over adding yet another AI widget.
Read on for more → https://telecomreseller.com/2026/02/04/momentum-io-newest-2026-voice-of-the-market-report-finds-most-ai-adoption-stops-short-of-revenue-execution/
Omilia: Self-Learning Agentic CX Platform for Autonomous Customer Service
Omilia has unveiled what it calls the first enterprise-grade Self-Learning Agentic CX Platform, built end-to-end for autonomous voice and digital customer service across high-volume, highly regulated environments such as banking and healthcare. The platform unifies speech, reasoning, routing, workflows, analytics, and self-learning to deliver voice-native, multimodal agents that reach around 98% voice accuracy, 95%+ chat containment, and 90%+ task completion, with “glass-box” governance so organizations can dial autonomy up from deterministic IVR to fully agentic CX under strict auditability.
Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260203171625/en/Omilia-Unveils-the-Worlds-First-Enterprise-Grade-Self-Learning-Agentic-CX-Platform
Operant AI Agent Protector: Real-Time Zero-Trust Security for AI Agents and MCP
Operant AI has launched Agent Protector, a security platform purpose-built for the agentic AI era that continuously discovers AI agents (including “shadow” agents), analyzes their behavior, and enforces zero-trust guardrails in real time. It detects rogue intent, privilege escalation, lateral movement, data exfiltration, prompt and memory poisoning, and 0‑click attacks across agents, tools, and MCP servers, providing inline blocking, rate limiting, and auto-redaction so organizations can safely scale autonomous agents without losing control.
Read on for more → https://www.operant.ai/art-kubed/introducing-agent-protector
Positron AI Raises $230M to Make Inference 5x More Energy-Efficient
Positron AI has raised $230 million in Series B funding at a valuation above $1 billion to scale its energy‑efficient inference hardware roadmap, including its current Atlas server and upcoming Asimov chip. The company claims its next-generation hardware will deliver up to 5x more tokens per watt than Nvidia’s forthcoming Rubin GPU for key inference workloads by using a memory-centric architecture built on Arm technology to overcome the power and bandwidth limits constraining AI deployment today.
Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260204250472/en/Positron-AI-Raises-%24230-Million-Series-B-at-Over-%241-Billion-Valuation-to-Scale-Energy-Efficient-AI-Inference
Precisely StreetPro Discover: Street Data Turned into “Agentic-Ready” Text for AI
Precisely has launched StreetPro Discover, a new street-level enrichment dataset that converts complex street segment attributes into semantically rich, human-readable text objects designed for use in conversational AI and analytics. Built to work with Precisely’s Data Link for TomTom, it lets organizations feed LLMs and AI agents with trusted street context for use cases such as site selection, last‑mile logistics, infrastructure planning, and risk/underwriting—without needing deep GIS expertise.
Read on for more → https://www.precisely.com/press-release/precisely-makes-street-data-ai-ready-with-release-of-streetpro-discover/
Presbyterian Expands GW RhythmX Precision Care AI to 200 Primary Care Clinicians
Presbyterian Healthcare Services is rolling out the GW RhythmX AI Precision Care Platform to 200 primary care clinicians after a pilot that surfaced over 200 HCC and non-HCC conditions in more than 10,000 encounters and delivered 17,000 hyper-personalized treatment responses. Embedded in Epic, RhythmX consolidates clinical history, payer criteria, social drivers, and guideline-based recommendations at the point of care and adds a patient-specific AI assistant, helping clinicians cut hours of manual chart review and support value-based care without sacrificing patient connection.
Salesforce 2026 Connectivity Report: AI Agents Need Integration to Deliver Value
Salesforce’s 11th annual Connectivity Benchmark Report finds enterprises already use an average of 12 AI agents, with usage expected to grow 67% over the next two years, but only 27% of their nearly 1,000 applications are integrated. 96% of IT leaders say AI agent success depends on seamless data integration across systems, and 94% believe future AI will require API-driven architectures, leading teams to double down on APIs as the connective tissue to orchestrate multi-agent environments and curb “shadow AI.”
Read on for more → https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/connectivity-report-announcement-2026/
Schellman Becomes First Accredited Auditor for AIUC‑1, the Security Standard for AI Agents
Schellman is now the first authorized auditor for AIUC‑1, a new technical, auditable security, safety, and reliability standard specifically designed for AI agents and grounded in frameworks such as ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. AIUC‑1 tests agent behavior against thousands of adversarial scenarios and covers six principles—security, safety, reliability, accountability, data & privacy, and societal impact—complementing management-focused standards so vendors can demonstrate comprehensive governance for agentic systems.
Read on for more → https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/02/03/3231179/0/en/Schellman-Becomes-the-First-Accredited-Auditor-for-AIUC-1-the-Security-Standard-for-AI-Agents.html
ScienceLogic Skylar Advisor: From Alert Fatigue to Proactive IT Guidance
ScienceLogic has launched Skylar Advisor, an AI-native advisor that continuously reasons over telemetry, topology, tickets, and documentation to turn noisy IT data into prioritized “advisories” and next-best actions across the operations lifecycle. Unlike chat assistants that wait for prompts, Skylar Advisor proactively surfaces the most important issues, explains why they matter in plain language, and tailors guidance by persona so junior engineers can resolve incidents faster while senior SREs focus on optimization and automation.
Read on for more → https://sciencelogic.com/press_release/sciencelogic-launches-skylar-advisor-to-proactively-guide-it-operations
Snowflake and OpenAI: $200M Partnership for Enterprise AI on the AI Data Cloud
Snowflake and OpenAI have forged a multi‑year, $200 million partnership that makes OpenAI’s models (including GPT‑5.2) natively available in Snowflake Cortex AI across all three major clouds, so 12,600+ Snowflake customers can run AI on governed enterprise data. Joint customers like Canva and WHOOP will use the integration to build context‑aware AI agents and applications directly on top of their Snowflake data, with co‑innovation and joint go‑to‑market efforts aimed at accelerating “agentic AI” adoption under strong security and compliance guardrails.
Read on for more → https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-and-openAI-forge-200-million-partnership-to-bring-enterprise-ready-ai-to-the-worlds-most-trusted-data-platform/
Wrike AI Agents: “Six Days of Output” by Moving AI Into the Workflow
Wrike has made its AI Agents generally available, bringing autonomous, governed agents directly into project workflows so they can reassign work, trigger multi-step automations, and close routine tasks without manual orchestration. After a 4,900% jump in active AI users during preview, early customers report up to 10 hours saved per week per employee—roughly six days of output in a five-day week—using Agent Builder to spin up tailored agents in minutes for common project, intake, and reporting scenarios.
Read on for more → https://www.wrike.com/newsroom/wrike-launches-ai-agents-delivering-six-days-of-output-in-a-five-day-work-week/
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 New “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI
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.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19
Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we’ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications — which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex — cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.
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.
The Cyber Circuit with Michael Morgenstern: How AI is Breaking Your Data Loss Prevention Strategy Featuring Marc Ashworth
The conversation dives into how employees using ChatGPT, Copilot, and other AI tools are creating new vectors for data exposure, why browser-based controls have become the critical chokepoint for DLP strategy, and how CISOs can balance enabling business innovation with protecting regulated data. Marc offers a prioritized framework for tackling AI-related data risks: know your assets, implement browser controls, manage data retention, and build automation that scales.
Thought Leaders – The Familiar Becomes Alien: Polar Bears and Data Storytelling by Dr. Joe Perez
Seeing a polar bear without its white fur is quite alarming. It seems as though you’re looking at a whole new creature. All those familiar “bear” traits disappear, and your brain scrambles to put it into a category. But the real shock isn’t the animal itself; it’s what’s missing. That thick fur keeps the bear warm, but it also signals to us, “This is a polar bear.” When it’s gone, so is our sense of recognition.
Contributor Series – Governing AI: From Paradox to Performance by Workiva’s Kim Huffman
AI is transforming the way organizations operate, offering the promise of greater efficiency, deeper insights, and new opportunities for innovation. Yet alongside this promise still comes uncertainty. Business leaders are confronting difficult questions about data security, operational disruption, and the impact on jobs, with no easy answers.
Contributor Series – Governing AI: From Paradox to Performance by Supermicro’s Vik Malyala
For years, enterprises have relied on encryption, access controls, and perimeter defenses to secure their digital assets. While these mechanisms remain essential in principle, they were designed for a world in which infrastructure operators and system software were implicitly trusted. In modern, multi‑tenant and hybrid environments, enterprises can’t afford to take that risk.
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.
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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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