Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of January 23; Updates from Linux Foundation, KPMG, Salesforce & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of January 23, 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 January 23, 2026

Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member

Airbyte joined the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member, positioning its open data movement platform as a backbone for secure, governed data connectivity in agentic AI systems. The company plans to contribute its connector‑first, open‑standards approach to areas like secure data movement, permission and credential handling, and interoperability across agent frameworks so AI agents can reliably access contextual, policy‑controlled data in real time.

Read on for more → https://airbyte.com/blog/airbyte-joins-agentic-ai-foundation

Akkodis Scales AI‑Core as Its Global Product Portfolio Flagship, Accelerating Intelligent Transformation

Akkodis is rolling out AI‑Core globally as its flagship AI platform, combining multimodal models, automation engines, agentic systems, GenAI, and analytics to accelerate AI, testing, validation, and intelligent data processing across industries like aerospace, automotive, rail, manufacturing, healthcare, defense, and logistics.

Read on for more → https://www.akkodis.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/ai-core-global-product-portfolio-flagship

Artie Announces Series A to Make Real-Time Data the Default

Artie delivers production-grade real-time data pipelines as a fully managed product. The platform moves data across systems in real time. For example, streaming changes from Postgres directly into Snowflake so teams can rely on fresh, accurate data without building or maintaining streaming infrastructure.

Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/artie-announces-series-a-to-make-real-time-data-the-default-for-ai-systems/

Balena Secures Strategic Growth Investment to Accelerate Edge AI and IoT Fleet Management

Balena (known for balenaCloud and balenaOS) secured a strategic growth investment to scale its platform for deploying, monitoring, and updating fleets of Linux‑based IoT and edge AI devices. The company plans to invest in easier device onboarding, more powerful remote diagnostics, and AI‑centric edge use cases so industrial, retail, and logistics customers can manage thousands of devices as a single software‑defined fleet.

Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260120524941/en/Balena-Secures-Strategic-Growth-Investment-to-Accelerate-Edge-AI-and-IoT-Fleet-Management

BMC Advances Business‑Driven Automation and Mainframe Transformation With AI‑Powered Innovations

BMC announced new AI capabilities across its Control‑M and BMC AMI portfolios, including an AI Workflow Creator copilot that lets business users design complex workflows in natural language and automatically orchestrate tasks across applications, clouds, and AI agents. Additional updates bring event‑driven workflows that react in real time to Kafka and cloud‑queue events, plus BMC AMI Assistant features like Knowledge Expert Chat and Knowledge Hub.

Read on for more → https://www.bmc.com/newsroom/releases/bmc-advances-business-driven-automation-and-mainframe-transforma.html

ClickHouse Raises $400M Series D Led by Dragoneer to Accelerate Expansion

As AI systems move from experimentation into production, the demands placed on underlying data infrastructure are increasing. AI-driven applications generate significantly higher query volumes, operate with tighter latency requirements, and require continuous evaluation and observability. In this environment, value increasingly accrues to infrastructure platforms that power large-scale, data-intensive production workloads.

Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260116008883/en/ClickHouse-Raises-%24400M-Series-D-Led-by-Dragoneer-to-Accelerate-Expansion-Across-Analytics-and-AI-Infrastructure

ConnectWise to Acquire zofiQ, Bringing AI‑Powered Automation to IT Solution Providers

ConnectWise agreed to acquire zofiQ, an agentic AI company built to automate high‑volume MSP service‑desk work by embedding AI agents directly into ConnectWise PSA workflows for triage, resolution, and documentation. Over time, zofiQ will act as a horizontal agentic layer across ConnectWise’s RMM, cybersecurity, and data‑protection products, with partners already seeing margin gains—as much as 30%—by redirecting staff from repetitive tasks to higher‑value work.

Read on for more → https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/20/3221817/0/en/ConnectWise-to-Acquire-zofiQ-Bringing-AI-Powered-Automation-to-IT-Solution-Providers.html

CGI Helps Clients Accelerate Agentic AI Outcomes With Gemini Enterprise

CGI introduced Gemini Enterprise, a framework and set of services that combine Google’s Gemini models with CGI’s consulting, data, and integration capabilities to build governed agentic AI solutions. The offering focuses on end‑to‑end outcomes—from use‑case design and data readiness to deployment and MLOps—so enterprises can move beyond pilots to production agentic AI spanning customer service, operations, and back‑office workflows.

Read on for more → https://www.cgi.com/en/cgi-help-clients-accelerate-agentic-ai-outcomes-gemini-enterprise

LatticeFlow AI Acquires AI Sonar to Add On-Prem Discovery to Evidence-Based AI Governance

LatticeFlow AI acquired AI Sonar, an AI discovery platform, to extend its evidence‑based AI governance stack with on‑premise discovery of models, pipelines, and data assets. The combined offering helps enterprises inventory shadow AI, map risk across deployments, and enforce policies on where and how AI runs—critical for regulated industries tightening control over generative and predictive AI.

Read on for more → https://pulse2.com/latticeflow-ai-acquires-ai-sonar-to-add-on-prem-discovery-to-evidence-based-ai-governance

Lighthouse Unveils LighthouseIQ, a Next-Generation Legal Intelligence Platform and Application Suite

Lighthouse launched LighthouseIQ, a next‑generation legal intelligence platform and AI application suite designed to help legal and compliance teams gain earlier insight, improve regulatory defensibility, and cut review costs across massive, complex data sets. Built on its IQ Fabric—combining large‑scale processing, AI “cognition,” and orchestration—and already pressure‑tested on more than 1.4 billion documents with outputs.

Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260121748391/en/Lighthouse-Unveils-LighthouseIQ-a-Next-Generation-Legal-Intelligence-Platform-and-Application-Suite

Linux Foundation Launches New Webinar: AI Runs on Open Source and Real Humans: Why You Need Linux and Cloud Native Skills to Power AI at Scale

In this conversation, Clyde Seepersad, Linux Foundation Education, and Christophe Sauthier, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, will explore why demand is growing not just for AI specialists, but for IT professionals with cross-functional fluency across Linux, cloud native, platform engineering, and security. They’ll unpack how these skills create career leverage, expand role optionality, and position professionals to guide AI systems with judgment, context, and impact.

Read on for more → https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/ai-runs-on-open-source-and-real-humans?hsLang=en

New Relic Launches Observability Solution for Complete Visibility Into ChatGPT Apps

New Relic introduced a specialized observability solution that traces ChatGPT‑based and other LLM apps end‑to‑end, from prompts and model calls to downstream services and user experience. Teams can monitor latency, errors, cost, and safety signals in one place, helping them tune prompts, detect regressions, and manage AI usage in production.

Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260122782966/en/New-Relic-Launches-Observability-Solution-for-Complete-Visibility-into-ChatGPT-Apps

Omnion Power Appoints Philip Zuk as New SVP of AI and Data Center Business

Omnion Power named Philip Zuk senior vice president of its AI and data center business, charging him with scaling power solutions tailored for energy‑hungry AI and cloud infrastructure. Zuk will focus on high‑efficiency power systems, sustainability, and partnerships with data center operators as AI build‑outs drive new requirements for reliability and grid integration.

Read on for more → https://www.omnionpower.com/about/news/press-releases/omnion-power-appoints-philip-zuk-new-svp-of-ai-and-data-center-business

Qlik Welcomes Mark Relph of AWS to AI Council

Qlik added Mark Relph, a senior AWS leader, to its AI Council to advise on cloud‑native AI strategy, ecosystem partnerships, and responsible use of generative AI in analytics. His appointment strengthens ties between Qlik and hyperscale cloud platforms as customers push more BI and data integration workloads into the cloud.

Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260121476762/en/Qlik-Welcomes-Mark-Relph-of-AWS-to-AI-Council

Salesforce Introduces MuleSoft Agent Fabric for Automated Agent Discovery

Salesforce’s MuleSoft Agent Fabric automatically discovers, catalogs, and governs AI agents and automations across an enterprise integration landscape. It helps teams understand which agents are running where, what systems they touch, and how to apply consistent policies and guardrails to agentic workflows.

Read on for more → https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/mulesoft-agent-fabric-automated-agent-discovery

ServiceNow Deepens Multi-Year Partnership With OpenAI to Power Enterprise AI Agents

ServiceNow has entered a multi‑year agreement with OpenAI to embed frontier models like GPT‑5.2 into the Now Platform so AI agents can understand enterprise workflows, decide what should happen next, and take action end‑to‑end inside customers’ secure environments.

Read on for more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/servicenow-teams-openai-three-ai-182043281.html

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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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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Impetus and Forrester Research for the Exclusive Session ‘The Next Generation of Observability in the Era of Agentic AI’ on January 28

In this fireside chat, an analyst-led discussion will explore how observability has evolved, whether today’s tools are ready for these new demands, and why observability is becoming essential in the agentic AI era. The session will also highlight how solutions like Impetus Prism help organizations bring observability and cost intelligence together as an enterprise capability.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Promethium and BARC for the Exclusive Session ‘Break the Metadata Bottleneck to Drive Agentic AI and Contextual Insights’ on January 29

This webinar examines three structural challenges behind that bottleneck: distributed datasets, heterogeneous environments, and rising expectations for true self-service analytics. We then outline architectural principles that dynamically integrate data, metadata, and analytics to guide wide-ranging business decisions.

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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.

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Insight Jam LIVE! The Human Impact: Augmentation Over Replacement: Rethinking Your Career in the AI Era

AI won’t replace you, but it will force you to ask who you want to become. Our expert panel shares practical strategies for reinventing yourself as roles evolve, from writing a letter from your future self to building a team of bots that work for you. The key insight: hold the paradox of excitement and threat without becoming an alarmist or an evangelist.

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Insight Jam LIVE! The Human Impact: Policies Written Once a Year Can’t Govern AI That Changes Quickly

Policies written once a year can’t govern models that change weekly. This panel explores how organizations can build agile, human-centered AI governance that evolves at the speed of innovation, from creating cultures where raising concerns is safe to asking whether we’re even buying technology that aligns with our values. With legal liability on the horizon and AGI potentially months away, the stakes have never been higher.

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Insight Jam LIVE! The Human Impact: Soft Skills Are the New Hard Skills in the AI Age

The skills you learn today will be outdated in six months, so stop upskilling for specific tools and start building adaptability. Our expert panel argues that the “soft skills” of critical thinking, creativity, and resilience are becoming the hardest skills to master, and that leaders must meet their anxious teams with compassion as AI transforms how we work.

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Insight Jam LIVE! The Human Impact: Responsible AI is a Cultural Choice, Not a Compliance Checkbox

AI policies don’t fail because they’re wrong; they fail because they’re not operational. This panel tackles how to translate responsible AI principles into living behavior across teams, from investing in real credentials to crowdsourcing AI solutions from frontline workers. The Toyota example proves it: empower people to solve their own pain points, and responsible AI becomes a cultural choice, not just a compliance checkbox.

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Insight Jam LIVE! The Human Impact: The Hardest AI Ethics Questions Have No Clear Answers

Ethics should move to the left, embedded between ideation and design, not retrofitted after the build is done. Our expert panel shares practical approaches to implementing ethical AI frameworks, from defining what you want not to do as a starting point to giving designers and developers the tools to make good decisions daily. The hardest questions have no clear answers: just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

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Thought Leaders: Meet the Cloud AI Innovators: Executive-Led, Business-Focused, and In Production  by Kevin Petrie

Amid the haphazard rush to artificial intelligence (AI), one cohort of smart adopters deserves a close look: the Cloud AI Innovators. Their cloud-first, converged approach to machine learning and generative AI puts them on the bleeding edge. It also simplifies technical integration work, freeing up energy to define executive leadership, establish business metrics, and push more data into production.

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Thought Leaders: Why Boards Quietly Lose Confidence in Data Programs by Samir Sharma

Boards rarely lose confidence in data programs overnight. What I see instead is a slow, almost imperceptible shift. Early curiosity turns into tolerance, and tolerance eventually becomes quiet concern. Nothing dramatic happens, the program doesn’t collapse and funding often remains in place. Updates continue to be presented and on the surface, everything looks stable.

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The Editors’ Lens: Learning Through Insight Theory: Data Analytics & Human Skilling by Tim King

What data analytics and AI now make possible is not faster instruction, but better understanding—an ability to observe how learning actually unfolds, where it stalls, and what conditions lead to genuine insight rather than surface-level completion.

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The Editors’ Lens: Class Frames the Future of Work: The Emerging Learn-Work Model by Tim King

For decades, we’ve treated school and work like two separate worlds. First you learn, then you earn—maybe with occasional training sprinkled in when a new tool shows up or a promotion demands it. But that sequence is collapsing. AI is rewriting workflows, unbundling roles into tasks, and shortening the shelf life of what we “know.” In response, learning is no longer a prerequisite to work. It’s becoming a property of work.

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