Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of May 16; Updates from Anaconda, Boomi, Openlayer & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 16, 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 May 16, 2025
Featured: New Skiilify Survey Finds: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might
As the first in an ongoing quarterly series of studies from Skiilify, the initial study finds that nearly all (94 percent) of technology leaders felt that resilience and other critical soft skills are required for the future, but many fail to get the proper training required. With AI, automation, and globalization reshaping the workforce, soft skills have emerged as the key differentiator for career advancement and organizational agility.
Alation Unveils New Data Products Builder Agent
The Data Products Builder Agent addresses these challenges by transforming raw data into productized, AI-ready assets that are easy to find and use in the Alation Data Products Marketplace. By automating the data product lifecycle, the Data Products Agent streamlines curation, packaging, and publishing processes.
Anaconda Debuts ‘First’ Unified AI Platform for Open-Source
As the only AI platform for open source, the Anaconda AI Platform combines trusted distribution, simplified workflows, real-time insights, and governance controls in one place to deliver secure and production-ready enterprise Python. Given Python’s prevalence as the language of choice for AI programming, this synergy gives users an unparalleled advantage, resulting in greater productivity, less risk, and a clearer path to value.
Archive360 Releases Governed AI-Ready Data Cloud
The Archive360 Platform enables enterprises and government agencies to unlock the full potential of their archival assets with extensive data governance, security and compliance capabilities, and primed for intelligent insights.
Boomi Unveils New Features for Scaling AI Automation
These innovations — including the general availability of Boomi Agentstudio, powerful new AI agents, the addition of Boomi Data Integration (formerly Rivery) to the Boomi Enterprise Platform, and support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) — reflect the company’s commitment to business transformation through a unified, open, and AI-native platform.
Databricks Acquires Neon for Serverless Postgres for Developers and Agents
Together, Databricks and Neon will work to remove the traditional limitations of databases that require compute and storage to scale in tandem — an inefficiency that hinders AI workloads. The integration of Neon’s serverless Postgres architecture with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform will help developers and enterprise teams efficiently build and deploy AI agent systems.
Fivetran Says AI Projects Fail Due to Lack of ‘Data Radiness’
Even though 57 percent of organizations rate their data centralization strategy as highly effective, nearly the same proportion say that over half their AI projects fail to deliver. The disconnect is data that is not fully centralized, governed, or made available in real time for AI models. From integration bottlenecks to pipeline maintenance burdens, enterprises are stuck managing infrastructure instead of delivering business value through AI.
Informatica Launches Agentic AI on AI Data Management Platform
As the resilient backbone of enterprise data and AI strategies, Informatica provides the critical metadata system of intelligence that enhances decision-making and AI outcomes through a comprehensive catalog of an organization’s data assets.
IntelePeer Unveils New SmartAnalytics Feature
Available to all SmartAgent and SmartOffice customers, SmartAnalytics features an Interaction Explorer, a powerful way to search and track trends from customer communications, a self-service business intelligence functionality to custom tailor analysis to meet business needs, and real-time data insights that can be exported across the business.
LatticeFlow Launches New LLM Risk Evaluation Service
Rooted in Swiss values of neutrality, precision, and trust, AI Insights addresses growing concern over the lack of transparency, relevance, and independence in today’s leaderboard-driven benchmarks. Most rely on static benchmark evaluations or crowdsourced ratings, methods that have often been proven to be gamed and disconnected from real-world enterprise needs.
MirrorWeb Unveils New AI-Powered Offering
The new system aims to help compliance teams manage communications across platforms like Teams, Slack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and iMessage by using natural language processing and risk scoring to identify high-risk content while filtering out irrelevant alerts.
Openlayer Secures $14.5 Million Series A Funding for Enterprise AI Scaling
Explosive growth is an incredible opportunity, but moving too fast without proper governance can have serious consequences to a business and the end users of these applications. Openlayer gives enterprises a unified platform to take their AI applications from prototype to production, delivering speed while also ensuring accuracy by spotting and guarding against any weakness.
Qlik Introduces New Agentic Experiences Module
The agentic experience will enable users to access insights and take action simply by engaging in natural language dialogue. Operating seamlessly across Qlik Cloud—including data integration, data quality, and analytics solutions—the experience removes friction, providing fast, intuitive visibility for smarter decisions and higher productivity.
Together AI Acquires Refuel.ai
This strategic move strengthens Together AI’s platform by integrating Refuel’s purpose-built models and orchestration capabilities, enabling developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and optimize generative AI applications with greater speed and accuracy.
Twilio Partners with Microsoft on Conversational AI
Conversational AI enables computer systems to understand and respond to human conversations in a way that mimics natural dialogue. It leverages natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to analyze and interpret human voice and text input, delivering appropriate responses through AI-generated voice or text.
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.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Paula Caligiuri PhD: Too Many Options, Not Enough Clarity: Why Tolerance of Ambiguity is Tech’s Next Competitive Edge
According to our April 2025 study, 75 percent of tech leaders say tolerance for ambiguity is critical. Yet 37 percent of those same leaders admit they struggle to make decisions in uncertain conditions. Even more striking? Nearly a quarter say too many options leave them feeling paralyzed.
Insight Jam Set to Host Bob Eve for the Jam Session: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering Featuring William McKnight, Aria Attar & Barzan Mozafari on May 20
Customer service improvements, IT resource and performance optimization, and new product development acceleration are just a few benefits. In a world of agents, where does that leave people Will we become the horse at the advent of the horseless carriage? Or the bookkeeper with the advent of financial software? Steve Jobs once said, “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21
In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.
Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI on May 29
GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring DataPelago CEO Rajan Goyal: The Next Evolution in AI Computing Infrastructure
Goyal explains how this software solution addresses modern computing challenges by abstracting the complexity of different processor types (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs) through a virtualization layer called “data VM.” The discussion highlights how UDP enables organizations to process various data types while leveraging accelerated computing, ultimately reducing total cost of ownership and simplifying data architecture.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal: AI Related Threats and How to Protect Against Them
These attacks occur due to security weaknesses that are not AI-specific. AI systems are also IT systems, so common IT vulnerabilities can occur with the software that is wrapped around the model for public use as well as the IT infrastructure that hosts the AI solution. Specifically, attacks will occur on the model itself rather than at the data level. This attack surface focuses on attacking the entire model via poisoning or theft.
New by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Irina Steenbeek: What’s the Biggest Challenge in Implementing Data & AI Governance?
The higher percentage for AI is understandable—it’s a newer discipline. But the figure for data governance is still high, despite decades of industry focus. I believe this correlates with the low priority given to data governance, which limits investment in upskilling.
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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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