Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of October 17; Updates from Anthropic, NetApp, Oracle & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of October 17, 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 October 17, 2025
BigID Unveils First MCP Server to Connect Enterprise Data With AI Agents
BigID released its first MCP server, allowing AI agents to dynamically access and manage enterprise data. This innovation bridges the gap between agentic AI workflows and secure, compliant data operations.
Cisco AI Research Finds the Most AI-Ready Companies Outpace Peers in the Race to Value
Cisco’s latest AI research reveals that organizations with mature AI readiness outperform competitors in innovation and business value creation, underscoring the importance of integrated AI strategy in digital transformation success.
CoreWeave Announces Partnership With Foundation Model Company Poolside to Deliver AI Cloud Services
CoreWeave and Poolside partnered to deliver enhanced AI cloud services, combining CoreWeave’s infrastructure with Poolside’s large foundation models to enable scalable, efficient AI workload deployment.
Graphwise Launches Graph AI Suite With Superior Data and Knowledge Management Capabilities
Graphwise released its Graph AI Suite, offering advanced capabilities in data and knowledge management to accelerate AI application development. The platform enables better semantic understanding and AI-driven analytics for enterprises.
Hyphastructure Powers Distributed Edge Cloud Network for AI
Hyphastructure unveiled a distributed edge cloud network purpose-built for AI workloads. The new architecture aims to lower latency, improve reliability, and offer scalable compute across globally distributed locations.
Read more → https://www.channelinsider.com/infrastructure/hyphastructure-distributed-edge-cloud-network-ai/
insightsoftware Report Reveals Outdated Finance Processes Hamper AI Readiness
A new Insightsoftware report reveals many finance teams struggle with legacy systems and manual processes, impeding progress toward AI adoption. The research highlights inefficiencies and errors that limit real-time financial insights, urging organizations to modernize data workflows for future-ready finance.
Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-insightsoftware-reveals-outdated-finance-130000708.html
Oracle Advances Enterprise AI With New Agents Across Fusion Applications
Oracle debuted a new set of AI agents within its Fusion applications portfolio, delivering automated intelligence and process optimization for ERP, HCM, and SCM customers. These agents streamline workflows, boost productivity, and simplify decision-making for enterprise users.
Qlik 2025 Agentic AI Study: Budgets Surge but Data Readiness Delays Scale
Qlik’s 2025 study reveals a significant rise in AI budgets, but finds that lack of data readiness is the main barrier to enterprise AI scaling. The report highlights the urgent need for stronger data foundations and upskilling.
Reducto Raises $75M Series B to Define the Future of AI Document Intelligence
Reducto closed a $75 million Series B to accelerate product development and market expansion in AI-driven document intelligence. The company’s technology advances automated extraction, understanding, and compliance for mission-critical enterprise documentation.
Salesforce and Anthropic Expand Partnership to Drive Trustworthy Enterprise AI
Salesforce and Anthropic announced an expanded alliance to integrate Claude AI across Salesforce platforms, focusing on security, transparency, and responsible agent deployment in customer-facing applications.
Read more → https://www.anthropic.com/news/salesforce-anthropic-expanded-partnership
Wiley Launches Interoperable Platform to Power Scientific Discovery in World’s Leading AI Technologies
Wiley announced a new platform designed to facilitate scientific discovery through open interoperability with top AI solutions. Researchers can now leverage advanced analytics, seamless data integration, and collaborative tools to accelerate breakthroughs.
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: Insight Jam Launches New Expert Mesh Groups in Beta
Why Mesh expert group sessions? Because trying to figure this stuff out alone is slow, very messy, and full of shiny promises that don’t deliver, whitepapers gather dust, and webinars don’t get past theory. Each group is led by an expert who’s been there. You’ll sit with 8–10 peers who are wrestling with the same challenges you are, and instead of fluff.
On-Demand: Bob Eve Hosts the Jam Session: What to Look for in an AI Consultancy?
Struggling to wrangle the ever-growing AI options for your enterprise? Overwhelmed by the prospect of undergoing an AI transformation at your business? Listen to what the experts have to say about it. In this session, our experts will address these critical questions: What do AI Consultancies really do? How do they do it? How can you pick a good one?
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nexthink for ‘Mind the AI Gap: Turning Inefficient IT and AI into Intelligent Action’ on October 29
Join Nexthink for a live webinar to see how organizations are closing both gaps with AI. You’ll learn how to gain full visibility into AI adoption and performance across the enterprise and see how Nexthink gives employees the power to solve problems instantly with AI, no tickets or waiting required. See how Nexthink helps organizations put AI to practical use, improving visibility, reducing support costs, and creating a more seamless digital experience for every employee.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Informatica for ‘Build, Test & Deploy Production-Ready Enterprise AI Agents in Minutes’ on November 6
While AI agents boost innovation and business value, they bring challenges like ensuring data quality, managing complex integrations and maintaining governance at scale. The Informatica AI Agent Engineering platform makes building, testing and deploying AI agents simple by combining no-code development with enterprise-grade data management capabilities.
Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Qrvey for ‘How SaaS Companies Win with Self-Service Analytics and AI’ on November 13
Join Qrvey for an expert-led session exploring how software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers can unlock new growth, retention, and monetization opportunities through embedded self-service analytics and AI. In this event, attendees will learn how to transform their data into a true competitive advantage by empowering customers with intuitive, on-demand insights and AI-driven automation directly within their applications.
Editorial: AI vs. the Human Intelligence Economy & the Rise of Mesh Networks
For the first time in modern history, machines are beginning to rival — and in some cases, surpass — human cognition. The AI Economy is taking shape all around us: an economy built on automation, acceleration, and algorithmic logic. It’s fast, efficient, scalable, and utterly indifferent to the human condition. It doesn’t get tired. It doesn’t hesitate. It doesn’t ask why.
For consideration in future artificial intelligence news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.
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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