Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of May 9; Updates from IBM, Insight Jam, Skiilify & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 9, 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 9, 2025
AgentSense Debuts New Agentic AI for CPG, Healthcare & Manufacturing
The newly launched website also highlights AgentSense’s commitment to delivering customizable, scalable, and secure AI solutions that adapt to cross-functional business needs while ensuring transparency, traceability, and responsible AI development. Visitors can explore product features, request a live demo, and learn more about the experienced team behind the platform.
Anthropic Adds New API for AI Web Search on Claude
Claude can also refine its queries and conduct multiple searches, using earlier results to inform subsequent queries. Developers can customize this behavior as well as specify domains from which Claude is allowed and not allowed to search.
Barracuda Drops New Multimodal AI-Powered Threat Detection Tools
Barracuda now uniquely delivers adaptive, context-aware protection against emerging attacks with unprecedented accuracy and speed by simultaneously correlating and analyzing diverse text and visual data types – including URLs, documents, images, QR codes, and more.
DataRobot Unveils New Federal AI Application Suite
The federal AI application suite delivers mission-specific AI use cases to help government agencies overcome critical challenges like talent attrition, financial management hurdles, asset downtime, legacy system integration, diverse data quality issues, emerging efficiency mandates, and more.
Domino Data Lab Says: AI ‘Breakthroughs’ Advancing, Biz Impact Still Lackluster
REVelate 2025, which commissioned BARC to poll 300+ C-level executives, VPs, and directors involved in AI strategy across North American and European enterprises, found stark differences in AI outcomes and priorities across sectors. Finance, life sciences, and public sector respondents identified varying degrees of adoption and use, shedding light on how each industry is incorporating AI infrastructure, tooling, and data to break ahead in their own markets.
Fastino Launches New Task-Specific Language Models
Fastino is also announcing $17.5M in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, the first investor in OpenAI – bringing Fastino’s total funding to $25M. The round included participation from preseed lead investor Insight Partners as well as Valor Equity Partners, and notable angels including Scott Johnston, the previous CEO of Docker, and Lukas Biewald, the CEO of Weights & Biases.
IBM Unveils New Hybrid Capabilities
IBM estimates that over one billion apps will emerge by 2028, putting pressure on businesses to scale across increasingly fragmented environments. This requires seamless integration, orchestration and data readiness. IBM is combining hybrid technologies, agent capabilities and deep industry expertise from IBM Consulting to help businesses operationalize AI.
Jitterbit Brings New Layered AI Architecture to Low-Code Harmony Platform
Jitterbit Harmony, which includes iPaaS, App Builder, API Manager and EDI offerings, is designed for line-of-business leaders and IT/IS experts to collaborate on critical automation, application development and orchestration initiatives. The platform empowers both groups to build AI agents that seamlessly integrate with their complex enterprise architecture, driving unprecedented efficiency and innovation while maintaining rigorous control, transparency and accountability.
KNIME Demonstrates its AI Agent-Building Capabilities
Agent design typically comes in two flavors – either through blackbox prompt chains or through code-heavy environments accessible only to deep experts – KNIME offers users something in between. The visual workflow-based software is as transparent and flexible as a coding language, but intuitive – allowing for wider accessibility and easier collaboration. It’s also modular, allowing for faster time to value and easy reuse.
Kore.ai Partners with Microsoft on Enterprise AI Adoption
The integrated technologies will enable enterprises to access and deploy Kore.ai’s Agent platform, as well as pre-configured business solutions, directly within their Microsoft environments. The intention is to provide seamless AI agent functionality to employees within the Microsoft tools they use most frequently.
Kyvos Insights Unveils GenAI-Powered Kyvos Insights Tool
Kyvos Dialogs redefines how organizations access and analyze data. By combining the best of human knowledge and artificial intelligence, users can now ask questions in plain English and receive precise, actionable answers—no technical expertise or complex queries required. Kyvos Dialogs delivers best-fit charts and graphs to build compelling data stories.
ModelOp Drops 2025 AI Governance Benchmark Report
With global AI spending expected to reach $631 billion by 2028, the report highlights a stark disconnect between enterprise ambitions and production results. Reasons include fragmented systems, inconsistent governance practices, and reliance on manual processes like spreadsheets and emails.
NetApp and Intel Release Joint AI Solution on Enterprise Inferencing
NetApp and Intel have partnered to provide businesses with an integrated AI inferencing solution built on an intelligent data infrastructure framework that allows specific business functions to leverage their distinct data to create outcomes that support their needs.
Oracle and IBM Extend Partnership on Hybrid Cloud & Agentic AI
To give customers a consistent way to build and manage agents across multi-agent, multi-system business processes, spanning both Oracle and non-Oracle applications and data sources, IBM is making its watsonx Orchestrate AI agent offerings available on OCI in July.
Protect AI Releases New GPT-4.1 Vulnerability Assessment
OpenAI states that they focused on real-world capabilities by making the models more useful for developers while keeping costs low. Models in this series appear to outperform GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o Mini in multiple evaluations, while also reducing latency and cost.
Rafay Launches New Serverless Inference Offering
These NCPs and GPU Clouds can now deliver Serverless Inference as a turnkey service at no additional cost, enabling their customers to build and scale AI applications fast, without having to deal with the cost and complexity of building automation, governance, and controls for GPU-based infrastructure.
Reactor Data Unveils New Electron AI Agentic Assistant
Electron acts as an intelligent co-pilot, enabling data analysts and teams to generate precise, context-aware mapping logic across source systems, semantic models, and destination schemas – all through simple conversational interactions.
SAS Software Releases New AI Agents with Customizable Human-AI Interaction
True enterprise value from agentic AI comes from building collaborative, intelligence-amplifying systems that work with humans. SAS Viya’s agentic AI framework is underpinned by three pillars that define how AI agents are designed and delivered.
ServiceNow Partners with NVIDIA on Open-Source AI Model ‘Nemotron 15B’
Walmart is an early adopter of the technology, giving developers access to agents designed to identify accessibility gaps in code. Expedia is in the experiment phase, enabling employees to experiment with AI agents as part of a generative AI playground.
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.
Snowflake Introduces New AI Tools for Automotive Verticals
This strategic investment reflects the growing demand from global manufacturers, including those in the automotive sector, seeking to accelerate their digital transformation and AI-driven innovation. Global technology and manufacturing companies like Siemens already leverage Snowflake to transform operations across their businesses with AI and advanced analytics, while maintaining strict security and governance standards.
StackAI Raises $16 Million Series A for Enterprise Agentic AI for Every Job
This rise in usage was fueled by the rapid growth of LLMs, including exceptional improvements in their versatility and reasoning capabilities. Their recent exponential growth, coupled with this vast expansion of AI technologies, has led them to double down on their premise. They want to deploy AI agents in enterprise companies that can perform any job.
Teradata Partners with ServiceNow on AI Agents and Autonomous Workflow
Truly autonomous agentic AI depends on access to clean, trusted data and the ability to act on it. Teradata has been powering predictive models and decision engines for decades and is the trusted foundation for AI models. Its integration with ServiceNow Workflow Data Fabric ensures joint customers can use AI agents to access enterprise-wide data in real-time.
Thoughtworks Releases State of Digital AI Readiness Report
The report introduces the Digital and AI Readiness Index, which categorizes organizations into four groups – Leaders (17 percent), Strong Performers (54 percent), Emerging Players (26 percent) and Late Adopters (3 percent) – based on their adoption levels across five critical pillars: digital products, platforms and services; enterprise modernization; managing (and modernizing) technology; data modernization and scaling AI (from pilot to production).
Unisys Drops New Trio of Cloud AI Solutions
The company’s cloud AI solutions are powered by the Unisys Intelligence Accelerator, a customizable technology that includes a structured set of guidelines and component code to accelerate and guide an organization’s solution development, implementation and management.
WisdomAI Launches New Agentic Data Insights Platform
WisdomAI offers innovative business insight agents that empower organizations with advanced decision-making capabilities. Founded by AI experts that have built market defining companies that are now public, WisdomAI innovates on a first-of-its-kind platform that combines reasoning AI agents with a Knowledge Fabric that understands business context intricacies.
Yellowfin Adds AI-Powered NLQ to Version 9.15 of BI Platform
Use of the AI NLQ feature requires an active OpenAI account. Only metadata (columns, data types, reference codes) and user questions are sent to the AI model. No raw data is transmitted, and role-based access controls allow for fine-grained management of the feature.
Expert Insights Section
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 Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring James Kobielus: What is AGI?
John talks artificial general intelligence (AGI) with James Kobielus. They explore what AGI is, how it differs from current AI applications, and the technological milestones needed to achieve it. They debate whether AGI is a paradigm or a future capability, discuss governance challenges, and consider realistic timelines for AGI development, with Kobielus viewing it as a focusing function rather than a discrete endpoint.
NEW Episode of The Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Doug Shannon: What is an AI Agent?
Doug and Doug explore the critical distinction between task-based agentic AI and goal-driven AI agents, while tackling the thorny question of workforce transformation with refreshing candor. Shannon presents a practical framework for organizations to build trust, foster adoption, and maintain intellectual property when implementing AI, all while warning about the dangers of “intellectual surrender” in an AI-driven world.
NEW Episode of The Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Syncfusion CEO Daniel Jebaraj: Software Development in the AI Era
He and Doug explore how enterprises are navigating AI adoption amid market uncertainty, as many development teams already incorporate AI tools. Daniel shares Syncfusion’s strategy of making productivity tools more accessible globally, and what he loves and hates about being a CEO.
NEW Friday Jam Session with Cher Fox, Joe Blatly, Jessica Wynter Martin & Gregory Lewandowski: Are You Doing AI or is AI Doing You?
Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for a live, informal, and informative chat around the reality of AI adoption.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosted Radware for Exclusive Show on API Security in an AI-Driven World
Join us on Tuesday April 29th for an exclusive Solution Spotlight Event: API Security in an AI-Driven World: Stopping Business Logic Attacks. Hear from industry expert: Jeremie Ohavon Senior Product Manager at Radware. Live product demo and Q&A included!
On-Demand: AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Hosted Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon
Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.
Solutions Review On-Location – What to Expect at Safe Software’s The Peak of Data and AI 2025 May 6-8
The Peak of Data and AI is the premier event for data and AI innovators, hosted by the creators of FME—the only All-Data, Any-AI Platform. Over three transformative days, you’ll explore the power of data integration and AI. From creating workflows to building AI agents, data integration and AI drive efficiency and deliver unprecedented insights.
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.
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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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