Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of March 6; Updates from insightsoftware, Pluralsight, Prismatic & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of March 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 March 6, 2026
Everest: Mid-Market Firms Are Skipping “GenAI Lite” And Racing Straight To Agentic AI
A new Everest Group report commissioned by R Systems finds that more than 40% of mid-market enterprises are leapfrogging traditional chatbot-style AI and moving directly to agentic AI to stay competitive. While 57% are still in pilot phases and only 15% have scaled agents into production, 64% report high or very high trust in agentic AI even though just 7% have agent-specific governance policies in place. The playbook urges leaders to anchor adoption in outcome-driven use cases and tier autonomy based on risk, treating integration complexity, technical debt, and data integrity as first-class blockers to scale.
Flex And AMD Bring Instinct GPU Platform Manufacturing Onshore In The US
Flex is expanding its strategic collaboration with AMD to manufacture AMD Instinct MI355X GPU platforms in the United States, with plans to support future Instinct generations as well. The partnership leverages Flex’s US footprint, advanced manufacturing, and supply-chain capabilities alongside AMD’s HPC and AI leadership to give customers a domestic option for building and scaling AI infrastructure. Flex and AMD frame the move as strengthening resilience and helping hyperscalers, enterprises, and OEMs meet demand for AI compute with lower geopolitical and logistics risk.
Read on for more→ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/flex-announces-us-manufacturing-collaboration-with-amd-to-accelerate-domestic-ai-infrastructure-302700057.html
Huawei’s New AI Data Platform Targets The “Agent Stuck In Demo” Problem
Huawei has launched an AI Data Platform designed to help enterprises move AI agents from demo to production by fixing data and inference bottlenecks. The platform unifies a multimodal knowledge base with near real-time knowledge generation and retrieval, a KV cache for accelerated, long-context inference, and a memory bank that captures and recalls agent experiences for continual learning. Huawei positions the stack as bridging the gap between big models and business value so agents can work reliably in long-running, multi-turn, multi-agent enterprise scenarios.
Read on for more→ https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/huawei-launches-its-ai-data-platform-to-power-faster-ai-adoption-for-enterprises/
insightsoftware’s Simba Intelligence Promises “Hallucination-Free” AI By Wiring Agents Directly Into Live Governed Data
insightsoftware’s Data + Analytics division has launched Simba Intelligence, an AI semantic platform that connects AI models and agents directly to governed, live enterprise data without moving it. A semantic layer applies business rules and governance at query time, while audit trails and source-aware semantics ensure every AI answer is consistent, traceable, and defensible for regulators and executives. Positioned as a response to Gartner’s warning that 60% of AI projects will fail without AI-ready data, Simba Intelligence aims to eliminate hallucinations at the data source so AI-driven decisions can be trusted in production.
Kognitos Separates AI “Thinking” From Execution To Make Automation Deterministic
Kognitos has rolled out new platform enhancements that separate AI-assisted reasoning from live execution, using neurosymbolic AI and a deterministic runtime to bridge the enterprise AI trust gap. AI can interpret intent and help design automations in plain English, but actual execution runs against approved, versioned English specifications, creating human-readable “contracts” that guarantee repeatable behavior and full auditability. By anchoring execution in a symbolic layer, Kognitos aims to eliminate hallucinations, logic rot, and silent behavior drift, so mission-critical finance, operations, and manufacturing workflows can be automated without losing control.
Nutanix: AI Is Pushing Containers From “Nice To Have” To Default Runtime
Nutanix’s latest Enterprise Cloud Index shows 85% of IT leaders say AI is accelerating container adoption, with 87% expecting container use to increase over the next three years and 83% already building new apps in containers. The report, summarized by Computer Weekly, argues that AI workloads demand portability, resilience, and GPU-efficient scheduling, which is pushing enterprises toward hybrid multicloud architectures and unified platforms that run VMs and containers side by side. Nutanix positions its own stack as a way to meet these needs while addressing emerging concerns around data sovereignty and infrastructure readiness.
Read on for more→ https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/CW-Developer-Network/Nutanix-Cloud-Analysis-The-reasons-why-AI-is-driving-container-adoption
Pluralsight’s AI Academy Offers A Three-Level Path From Literacy To Agentic AI
Pluralsight has introduced AI Academy, a structured learning program to help enterprises measure and scale AI productivity across their workforce. The academy combines readiness assessments, on-demand courses, hands-on labs, workshops, and live seminars into three progressive tracks—AI Literacy, AI Productivity, and Agentic AI—guiding organizations from basic understanding to building and operating agentic systems. Targeting cohorts of 500 to 100,000 employees, Pluralsight pitches AI Academy as an antidote to ad hoc learning, aiming to close skills gaps and link AI training directly to business outcomes.
Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pluralsight-launches-ai-academy-help-140000249.html
Prismatic’s AI Copilot Lets Non-Developers Build Embedded Integrations By Chat
Prismatic has rolled out an AI Copilot for its embedded workflow builder that lets SaaS customers build integrations and automations by describing what they want in natural language. Users can connect to third-party apps, authenticate, and chain complex steps together while watching a visual canvas update in real time as the copilot builds and modifies workflows. Two modes—Plan (review before build) and Auto (build immediately)—plus visual verification aim to keep humans in control while dramatically speeding up integration delivery for non-developers.
Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/prismatic-introduces-ai-copilot-enable-140000564.html
Goldman Sachs Alternatives Backs Schellman To Scale AI Governance And Digital Trust Services
Schellman has secured a strategic investment from Private Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with existing majority investor Lightyear Capital remaining as a minority shareholder. The deal will fund Schellman’s next phase of growth, expanding its cybersecurity compliance and attestation services into high-demand areas such as AI governance, federal compliance, and broader digital trust across more geographies and sectors. Goldman Sachs cites Schellman’s differentiated model, technical leadership, and long-term client relationships as key reasons for the partnership.
Read on for more→ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/03/05/3250223/0/en/Schellman-Announces-Strategic-Partnership-with-Goldman-Sachs-Alternatives.html
Red Hat And Telenor Launch Sovereign AI Factory For Production-Grade Agents
Red Hat and Telenor have teamed up to power the Telenor AI Factory, a sovereign AI platform for the Nordics built on Red Hat OpenShift AI, OpenShift Platform Plus, and Ansible, and powered by NVIDIA infrastructure. The factory is designed to take customers from AI blueprints to production, supporting multi-tenant RAG and agentic workloads with strict data residency, governance, and security controls to meet national and EU sovereignty requirements. By standardizing on an open, vendor-neutral stack that can run any model on any accelerator, the partners aim to give enterprises freedom of choice while maintaining operational consistency and auditability.
Read on for more→ https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-telenor-ai-factory-bring-scale-sovereignty-and-control-production-aiv
Sonar’s “Agent Centric Development Cycle” Frames How To Govern AI-Generated Code
Sonar has introduced the Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC), a new framework that rethinks software delivery around AI code generators and repair agents. The cycle centers on four stages—Guide, Generate, Verify, and Solve—emphasizing context injection up front, deliberate verification of functional, security, and maintainability requirements, and handoff to remediation agents when issues are found. New products like Sonar Context Augmentation and SonarQube Architecture plug into AC/DC to keep AI-generated changes “repo aware” and prevent architectural drift as agents speed up coding.
Read on for more→ https://www.sonarsource.com/company/press-releases/sonar-introduces-the-agent-centric-development-cycle/
Teramind Pitches A Single Control Plane For “Agentic” AI Governance
Teramind has launched an AI Governance platform that tracks and governs every AI interaction and autonomous agent across sanctioned tools like Copilot, Gemini, and Claude Code, as well as shadow AI. The system creates continuous audit trails mapped to frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, CMMC, FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the EU AI Act, and enforces policies in real time to limit data exposure, insider risk, and unsafe agent behavior. Teramind positions the platform as a way to move from AI usage “Wild West” to an auditable, enforceable operating model for the agentic enterprise.
Read on for more→ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260303727228/en/Teramind-Launches-the-First-AI-Governance-Platform-for-the-Agentic-Enterprise
Wasabi Survey: Most AI Projects Lose Money Today, But Infrastructure Spend Keeps Climbing
Wasabi’s 2026 Global Cloud Storage Index reports that only 32% of organizations say their AI projects currently deliver positive ROI, even as 60% plan to increase AI infrastructure spending and just 3% expect cuts. Roughly two-thirds of AI budgets are now going to data, storage, and compute, with only one-third earmarked for software and SaaS tools, highlighting how critical scalable infrastructure has become for AI initiatives. Looking ahead 12 months, respondents expect the share of AI projects with positive ROI to jump to 51%, tightening the window for teams to prove value as boards grow less tolerant of open‑ended “experimentation.”
Read on for more→ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/only-one-third-ai-projects-140000807.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.
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 31
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.
NEW Episode of the Human Conversation with Doug Atkinson: What Makes Humans Special in the Age of AI? Featuring Dr. Priyanka Dave
Dr. Priyanka Dave, workforce development leader at Oregon State University, joins Doug to explore the AI upskilling gap, why future leaders may never learn to lead, and whether humans can compete with technology that evolves faster than we can adapt.
NEW Episode of the Cyber Circuit with Michael Morgenstern: Why Traditional Security Frameworks Can’t Handle AI
Michael Morgenstern sits down with Manju Mude, a cybersecurity executive with over 25 years of experience, to explore why traditional compliance frameworks are breaking down in the age of autonomous agents. The conversation covers why executives focus on AI opportunities while risk conversations lag behind, how auditors are overwhelmed by machine-speed decision-making, and why waiting for regulations to catch up is a losing strategy.
The Editors Lens: Why Analytics Leadership Mastermind Groups Solve for the Last Mile of AI
As the expectations placed on analytics leaders grow, many are discovering that traditional professional development channels like vendor webinars, industry conferences, and one-off training programs do not address the leadership challenges emerging given this AI moment. In response, a growing number of senior analytics professionals are turning to alternative models of leadership development: enter the analytics leadership mastermind group.
The Editors Lens: The AI Trust Gap: Why Enterprise AI Starts at the Data Layer
The tension between traditional consolidation strategies and AI-scale demands has accelerated interest in logical data management approaches. Kevin Petrie, Vice President of Research and Head of Data Management Practice at BARC has observed that many data strategies remain trapped in analytics-first thinking built for dashboards, not dialogue. AI doesn’t just analyze data, but it also interrogates it. And that exposes every weakness in how data is managed, cataloged, and trusted.
Contributor Series: Your Agentic AI is Recreating the Meetings it Was Supposed to Replace
We ran a controlled experiment. Four AI architectures—single agent, hierarchical multi-agent, stigmergic multi-agent, and pipeline—were given identical software engineering tasks. Same compute budget. Same instructions. Same goal. The single agent completed 28 out of 28 tasks, while the pipeline completed zero. It consumed its entire $50 compute budget on planning and produced no deployable code. No humans were involved. The agents held meetings, reviewed each other’s work, rejected 87 percent of submissions—and shipped nothing.
Contributor Series: AI Acceleration is Raising the Strategic Value of Domain Names
The internet is entering a new phase of growth. Artificial intelligence (AI) has accelerated the pace of ideas moving 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.
Contributor Series: AI Acceleration is Raising the Strategic Value of Domain Names
The internet is entering a new phase of growth. Artificial intelligence (AI) has accelerated the pace of ideas moving 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.
Contributor Series: How CIOs and COOs Are Applying AI on the Shop Floor (Without Disrupting the Workforce)
Much of the public conversation around AI implementation has centered on automation and process or system replacement. Enterprise leaders are under pressure to translate AI’s momentum into operational value. While this is also true in manufacturing and distribution, adoption in production environments is shaped by distinct realities.
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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.
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 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.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor covering the human impact of AI on the future of work and learning. He is also the Media Strategist behind Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube) events and programming. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in multiple categories, Tim is a recognized thought leader in enterprise tech and AI.
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