Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of October 3; Updates from OutSystems, Progress Software, ServiceNow & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of October 3, 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 3, 2025
Algolia expands AI search pricing to reach developers everywhere
Algolia rolled out new pricing plans to make its AI-powered search capabilities broadly accessible to developers. The model is designed to fuel innovation and enable more projects with advanced search intelligence at scale.
Cerebras closes $1.1B Series G at $8.1B valuation, leading AI inference
Cerebras Systems secured $1.1 billion in a Series G funding round led by Fidelity and Atreides, valuing the company at $8.1 billion. As the world’s fastest AI inference provider, Cerebras will use the funds to expand AI processor innovation and scale U.S. manufacturing and data center capacity amid soaring demand.
Read more → https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/series-g
Databricks launches unified AI cybersecurity platform
Databricks unveiled Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, delivering real-time AI-driven threat detection and response for enterprises. The system unifies security data, leverages partner integrations, and empowers security teams with agentic AI to proactively combat advanced threats while reducing costs and increasing visibility.
DataWizz secures $12.5M to push sustainable, efficient AI
DataWizz raised a $12.5 million seed round to accelerate the development of AI that’s both environmentally sustainable and cost-efficient. Their mission is to help businesses reduce resource consumption while maximizing AI value.
IDC study finds trust is crucial for enterprise AI success
A global IDC study commissioned by SAS underscores that lack of trust is a major barrier to AI adoption in enterprise settings. Organizations are urged to focus on transparency, security, and ethical standards to unlock full AI benefits.
Read more → https://www.sas.com/en_us/news/press-releases/2025/september/ai-trust-idc-study.html
LandingAI simplifies document intelligence for enterprises
Andrew Ng’s LandingAI revealed a specialized document intelligence model, making it easier for businesses to process and understand complex documents. The approach targets use cases from finance to healthcare with tailored algorithms and deployment options.
MinIO launches Iceberg Tables in AIStor to unify enterprise AI data
MinIO released Iceberg Tables as part of AIStor, aiming to unify and govern enterprise datasets for AI applications. The new offering supports scalable, performant data lakes with schema evolution and transactional guarantees for AI-ready data.
OutSystems debuts Agent Workbench for easy AI agent customization
OutSystems launched Agent Workbench, a low-code platform that simplifies the customization and deployment of AI agents. The tool empowers enterprises to rapidly build tailored, scenario-specific agents for digital transformation without deep technical expertise.
Read more → https://aimagazine.com/news/outsystems-agent-workbench-makes-customising-ai-agents-easy
Snowflake unveils Cortex AI for financial services
Snowflake announced Cortex AI for the financial sector, offering scalable, enterprise-ready AI tools to improve risk assessment, fraud detection, and service automation. Financial firms will gain tailored, secure AI capabilities for mission-critical workloads.
ServiceNow unveils AI Experience with agentic features
ServiceNow revealed enhancements to its AI Experience platform, introducing agentic AI capabilities designed to empower businesses with smarter automation and workflow intelligence. The updates highlight the growing role of autonomous AI agents in enterprise software.
Read more → https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/servicenow-unveils-ai-experience-agentic-features
UiPath and Snowflake unite agentic automation with Cortex AI
UiPath and Snowflake partnered to combine agentic automation with Cortex AI, automating workflows and expanding AI-powered decisioning for enterprise clients. The collaboration aims to unlock time and cost savings across operations.
VDURA joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium to transform AI networking
VDURA announced membership in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, contributing to efforts to revolutionize networking infrastructure tailored for AI workloads. The initiative focuses on ultra-high-speed, low-latency, and scalable networking solutions for next-gen AI data centers.
Expert Insights
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Insight Jam Panel Recap: How Can an AI System Use Human in the Loop to Maintain Ethics
This critical discussion reveals why the human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop debate isn’t binary but depends on organizational maturity, risk appetite, and strategic decision-making needs. From healthcare AI reducing false positives by 17 percent to insurance fraud detection requiring ex-cops to physically investigate staged accidents, our panel of expert practitioners expose the hidden costs of AI implementation, the 6-8 month ROI timeline most organizations miss, and why sociotechnical systems theory proves that truly autonomous AI is a myth.
Insight Jam Panel Recap: Upskill to Outpace AI
From the myth of universal adaptability to the stark reality that 95 percent of AI investments fail to deliver results, these industry leaders explore what it takes to upskill at machine speed, and whether concepts like universal basic income and mentorship can bridge the gap between AI’s promise of better lives and the anxiety of obsolescence.
Insight Jam Panel Recap: Experts Weigh in on Empathetic AI
AI governance remains imperfect. Who should be held accountable when systems cause harm? Does transparency mean making AI visible or invisible to users? From the initial excitement of ChatGPT’s democratized access to the sobering reality of teaching AI literacy in K-12 classrooms, our expert panel debate whether we’re forcing humans to adapt to machines, or finally expanding human potential through truly empathetic AI design.
Insight Jam Panel Recap: Ensuring Ethical AI for Students and Teachers
Can AI truly transform education, or are we just replacing thinking with efficiency? Our AI-in-education experts tackle the urgent challenge of teaching students (and educators) to partner with AI as a thinking tool rather than an answer machine. From the constraints of data protection laws to the two-sigma problem of personalized learning, these experts reveal why probabilistic thinking and authentic assessment strategies are critical to preparing students for an AI-integrated future where every career path will intersect with intelligent systems.
Editorial: The State of Data Observability & How Organizations Are Preparing for Agentic AI
The agentic AI revolution is beginning to take shape. AI and ML models are transitioning from being merely generative, like answering user questions or creating content, to agentic, where the AI model can make complex, autonomous decisions without additional user input. A data integrity strategy, including a robust approach to data governance, quality, and observability, is the only way agentic AI can do this accurately, consistently, and at scale.
Editorial: Keeping Humans in the Loop While Building the Future of AI
The growing presence of AI in physical environments is transforming how organizations think about security, automation, and efficiency. From robotics to building management systems, AI is helping businesses optimize operations in ways that were not possible even a few years ago. In fact, as of early 2025, 78 percent of companies globally report using AI in at least one part of their operations, with nearly half (45 percent) applying it across three or more functions.
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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