Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of July 18; Updates from Akka, IBM, OutSystems & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of July 18, 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 July 18, 2025

Akka Launches Agentic AI Platform for Adaptive Workflows

Akka has unveiled its all-in-one Agentic AI Platform, bundling Akka Orchestration, Agents, Memory, and Streaming to deliver three times faster development at a third of the compute cost. The platform is tailored for building, operating, and evaluating agentic systems—from real-time analytics to autonomous edge deployments.

Read the full press release: Announcing the Akka Agentic Platform

Atos Debuts Polaris AI Platform for Autonomous Business Automation

Atos has launched the Polaris AI Platform—a comprehensive system of autonomous AI agents orchestrating complex workflows for development, testing, and IT operations. With built-in capabilities for planning, reasoning, collaboration, and continual learning, Polaris enables organizations to automate business processes at scale.

Read the full press release: Atos launches the Atos Polaris AI Platform

C-Gen.AI Launches from Stealth with Disruptive AI Infrastructure Platform

C‑Gen.AI has launched its next-generation AI infrastructure platform to tackle industry pain points like rising cloud costs, poor GPU utilization, and vendor lock-in. The orchestration platform optimizes GPU usage across public, private, and hybrid environments—unlocking idle resources, cutting deployment times, and powering scalable AI without costly re-architecting.

Read the full press release: C-Gen.AI announces AI infrastructure platform

Concentric AI Granted Fifth and Sixth Patents; Advances in Data Security

Concentric AI has been awarded its fifth and sixth U.S. patents of 2025, underscoring its innovation leadership in data-centric security and AI-driven risk management. The patents focus on advanced methods for automatically identifying, classifying, and protecting sensitive content across enterprise data stores.

Read the full release: Concentric AI granted fifth and sixth patents of 2025

Coralogix Launches MCP Server for AI Agents to Tap Directly into Observability Data

Coralogix has introduced MCP Server, a breakthrough solution that provides AI agents with direct, secure access to streaming observability data. This capability helps automate incident detection, troubleshooting, and operational optimization, allowing organizations to build more intelligent, AI-driven operations and improve system reliability.

Read the full press release: Coralogix launches MCP Server

Esri and Microsoft Collaborate to Deliver Next-Gen AI Enhancements for ArcGIS

Esri has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to supercharge its ArcGIS user base with powerful new AI features. The collaboration delivers advanced spatial analysis, automation, and deeper integration of generative AI tools in ArcGIS, letting organizations unlock richer insights and value from their geospatial data within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Read the full press release: Esri Collaborates with Microsoft for AI Enhancements

Honeycomb Announces MCP in AWS Marketplace’s AI Agents Category

Honeycomb has debuted its MCP (Model Context Protocol) in the AWS Marketplace under the new AI Agents and Tools category. MCP helps enterprises connect, orchestrate, and manage AI agents and systems securely in the cloud. By streamlining the deployment and governance of AI tools, Honeycomb empowers organizations to accelerate AI adoption with interoperable solutions tested and trusted for modern enterprise needs.

Read the announcement: Honeycomb announces availability of MCP in AWS Marketplace

Kognitos and qBotica Team Up to Bring “English as Code” to Enterprise Operations

Kognitos and qBotica have entered a strategic partnership to offer “English as Code” process automation across key enterprise functions. The collaboration enables business users to describe automation workflows in plain English, dramatically lowering barriers to adoption and scaling digital transformation in finance, HR, and beyond.

Read the full press release: Kognitos and qBotica Partner to Bring English as Code to the Enterprise

LogicMonitor’s Edwin AI Now Available in AWS Marketplace’s AI Agents & Tools Category

LogicMonitor has launched Edwin AI in the new AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools category. Edwin AI helps organizations automate IT operations, surface actionable insights, and accelerate mean time to resolution with intelligent, conversational assistance—now easier to deploy, access, and integrate for AWS customers.

Read the full press release: LogicMonitor Announces Availability of Edwin AI

IBM Says Chief AI Officers Deliver Bigger ROI & Faster Innovation

IBM’s latest research reveals the growing prominence and impact of Chief AI Officers (CAIOs). Organizations with CAIOs report a 10% higher ROI on AI investments and are 24% more likely to outperform peers on innovation. As CAIOs set AI strategies, manage budgets, and drive adoption, they play a pivotal role in scaling AI value across the enterprise. The number of organizations appointing CAIOs has more than doubled since 2023, with expectations that most enterprises will follow suit within two years.

Read the full report: How Chief AI Officers deliver AI ROI – IBM

Intel & Weizmann Unveil Algorithms to Hasten AI Models with Speculative Decoding

Researchers from Intel and the Weizmann Institute introduced groundbreaking algorithms that supercharge large language models by up to 2.8x using “speculative decoding”—a method that allows small and large AI models to collaborate in real time. The algorithms eliminate the need for retraining specialized draft models, making industry-grade AI acceleration widely accessible and affordable.

Read more: Faster, Smarter, More Open: A New Way to Accelerate AI Models

Nutanix Survey Finds GenAI Fuels Moderniation While Infrastructure is the Bottleneck

Nutanix’s latest Financial Services Enterprise Cloud Index reveals nearly all financial institutions are implementing GenAI, focusing on real-life use cases like customer support and content generation. Despite strong adoption, most firms cite skills gaps and infrastructure limitations as barriers to scaling GenAI. Containers and hybrid cloud are being widely adopted as strategic enablers, but 97 percent admit more must be done to secure and optimize GenAI operations safely and efficiently.

Read the survey summary: Nutanix unveils Financial Services Enterprise Cloud Index Findings

OutSystems Says: 93 Percent of Organizations Are Building Custom AI Agents

A new OutSystems research report shows a sharp spike in enterprises prioritizing agentic AI: 93 percent are developing or planning to develop tailored AI agents. The trend is reshaping workforce skills and streamlining complex processes by automating workflows, breaking down data silos, and facilitating agile innovation. Leaders cited the transformative potential of agentic AI to deliver personalization, automation, and compliance, helping organizations embrace an AI-first mindset for the next wave of digital transformation.

Read the study details: Agentic AI Study by OutSystems

Progress Software Acquires Nuclia to Accelerate Agentic RAG AI Innovation

Progress Software has acquired Nuclia, a pioneer in agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI. The acquisition expands Progress’s AI portfolio with advanced data discovery and conversational intelligence capabilities, helping enterprises quickly unlock actionable insights from diverse data sources and supercharge AI-powered automation.

Read the full press release: Progress Software acquires Nuclia, innovator in agentic RAG AI

Qdrant Cloud Inference Simplifies Multimodal AI App Devellopment

Qdrant has introduced Qdrant Cloud Inference, a managed service enabling developers to generate, store, and index vector embeddings for unstructured data (like text and images) directly within one environment. This unification slashes application development complexity, reduces latency, and enables rapid deployment of search and RAG systems for AI assistants and multimodal applications. Qdrant uniquely supports curated models for both dense and multimodal (text and image) search scenarios.

Read the full release: Qdrant launches Qdrant Cloud Inference

Redwood Software Study: Automation Investment Up—But Most Tools Underutilized

A Redwood Software report finds that 73 percent of businesses increased their automation spending over the past 12 months, yet many tools remain underused. The study highlights that, despite optimism and investment, organizations struggle with the complexity and integration challenges of automation platforms, leaving significant potential untapped for AI and process transformation.

Read the full article: Redwood Software: 73% of companies increased automation spend, yet tools remain underutilized

Expert Insights

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The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring IBM’s Bruno Aziza: Deep Blue, Deep Learning & the Future of AI

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