Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of October 23; Updates from Qlik, Starburst, ThoughtSpot & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of October 23, 2026.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science 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, education updates, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of October 23, 2026

Databricks Adds Managed Agent Memory To Preserve Context And Reduce Repeated Work

Databricks has introduced Agent Memory in beta on Agent Bricks, using Lakebase to store conversation histories alongside durable facts, preferences, and workflows. Built on its MemCurrent architecture, the service combines automatic context loading, on-demand recall, and background pipelines that consolidate memories, remove duplicates, and replace outdated information. Databricks reports that the architecture tripled agent pass rates while using 31% fewer tokens in internal enterprise-task benchmarks.

Read on for more→ Introducing Agent Memory on Databricks

IBM Ventures Backs Leena AI’s Autonomous Back-Office Workflow Platform

IBM Ventures has made a strategic investment in Leena AI to support expansion of its AI Colleague platform, which resolves employee requests and executes multistep workflows across HR, IT, and finance systems. Integrations include SAP, Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, and ServiceNow, positioning the platform around completing processes rather than answering questions alone. Leena AI says it serves more than 500 enterprises globally; the investment amount was not disclosed, and IBM described the platform as complementary to its work in AI orchestration and governance.

Read on for more→ IBM Ventures Invests in Leena AI to Accelerate Agentic AI Across the Enterprise Back Office

Qlik Brings Governed Business Context And Analytics Workflows Into Claude

Qlik’s MCP server is now available through Anthropic’s Claude Directory, giving customers a simpler way to connect Claude with governed data, business metrics, lineage, and existing analytical logic in Qlik Cloud. Users can search apps and datasets, ask natural-language questions, inspect expressions and scripts, and create dashboards and visualizations without rebuilding business definitions in prompts.

Read on for more→ Qlik Brings Governed Business Context and Analytics Workflows to Claude

Starburst Introduces GPU-Native SQL Engine Without Requiring Query Or Application Changes

Starburst has announced limited general availability of Torin, a Trino-based engine for Starburst Enterprise that executes SQL natively on NVIDIA GPUs using cuDF. Torin complements the existing CPU engine without requiring changes to Trino SQL, applications, agents, or governance controls. Starburst reports up to sevenfold faster performance in its TPC-H testing and 3.4 times the ClickBench throughput of a CPU baseline at similar hourly hardware cost; the vendor-run, single-node development benchmarks exclude software licensing and do not guarantee production results.

Read on for more→ Starburst Introduces Torin, a GPU-Native Analytics Engine Built on NVIDIA cuDF

ThoughtSpot Launches Shared Agent Workspace Grounded In Enterprise Memory And Analytics

ThoughtSpot has introduced AgentSpot, a workspace where business users build agents through natural-language prompts and share them across their organization. Four layers of memory—company, agent, user, and agent-user—combine common business definitions with personalized interactions, while ThoughtSpot’s governed semantic layer keeps agents aligned with dashboard metrics. Agents can act in systems such as CRM and Slack, extending analytics into workflows.

Read on for more→ AgentSpot a Means for ThoughtSpot Users to Build and Share AI

WisdomAI Introduces Always-On Analysts That Track Business Goals And Approved Actions

WisdomAI has announced Owls, AI analysts designed to take ongoing responsibility for goals such as reducing churn, improving sales performance, or controlling operating costs. Built on its Analytics Harness and Enterprise Context Layer, Owls analyze governed data, identify opportunities, recommend actions, and track results over time. Actions in connected systems remain subject to organizational controls and employee approval. The announcement targets a shift from answering individual analytics questions to sustained, outcome-oriented work, with a customer beta planned for early November.

Read on for more→ WisdomAI Introduces Owls, Always-On AI Analysts That Work Toward Business Outcomes

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.

Editor’s Lens: Data Sovereignty is Becoming a Design Principle for Enterprise AI by Tim King

From my view of the chess board, data sovereignty is usually explained through the lens of regulation and geography. That is, companies needed to know where sensitive information was stored, which jurisdiction governed it, and whether their infrastructure complied with applicable requirements.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Imply for Exclusive Spotlight Show “Federated Search Done Right: Build Security Data Lakes with Existing Tools” on October 21

See what federated search looks like when it’s done right: immediate access to security data across SIEMs and object storage, using the search languages and tools your teams already know. Learn how to extend retention and reduce costs without rehydrating data, defining schemas, or changing how your SOC operates. And, hear what our customers think.

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Mini Jam Q3, 2026 On-Demand: Education in the Age of Abundant Intelligence

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q3, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments

The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.

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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.

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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.

Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.

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How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.

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