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Seismic unveils new AI agents to boost efficiency for UK teams
Customer Relationship Management

Seismic unveils new AI agents to boost efficiency for UK teams

Seismic launches new Aura AI Agents to help UK go-to-market teams save time and boost efficiency by streamlining workflows and linking activities to outcomes.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 23rd Oct 2025
Red Hat unveils AI 3 to help UK firms scale enterprise AI
Virtualisation

Red Hat unveils AI 3 to help UK firms scale enterprise AI

Red Hat launches AI 3, its hybrid cloud AI platform, to help UK firms scale AI from experiments to production, boosting performance and cutting costs.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Wed, 22nd Oct 2025
Starburst unveils AI-ready platform for secure, governed data use
Data Analytics

Starburst unveils AI-ready platform for secure, governed data use

Starburst launches AI-ready platform enabling secure, governed data access with multi-agent capabilities and compliance across clouds and borders.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 17th Oct 2025

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Claude enables instant market research with GWI audience data
Artificial Intelligence

Claude enables instant market research with GWI audience data

Anthropic's Claude now integrates GWI's data, offering instant, bias-checked market research from 3 billion consumers across 50+ countries within AI chats.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Nov 2025
Commvault launches AI-driven resilience for enterprise data
Data Protection

Commvault launches AI-driven resilience for enterprise data

Commvault unveils AI-driven features allowing enterprises to manage data protection and resilience using natural language via ChatGPT and Claude.

By Melania Watson • 4 min read • Thu, 30th Oct 2025
Confluent unveils platform to bridge AI context gap with real-time data
Smart Cities

Confluent unveils platform to bridge AI context gap with real-time data

Confluent launches Confluent Intelligence, a platform providing real-time data streaming to enhance AI context and support scalable, event-driven AI systems.

By Melania Watson • 4 min read • Thu, 30th Oct 2025
Confluent launches real-time service to boost AI data context
Private Cloud

Confluent launches real-time service to boost AI data context

Confluent launches Real-Time Context Engine to deliver up-to-date data and context to AI agents, enhancing decision accuracy with its Model Context Protocol.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Oct 2025
Amplitude unveils MCP server & expands AI Agents open beta
DataCentre infrastructure

Amplitude unveils MCP server & expands AI Agents open beta

Amplitude launches its Model Context Protocol server and opens beta for AI Agents, enabling seamless access to behavioural data via natural language queries.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 24th Oct 2025
AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas raise new privacy & security fears
Ransomware

AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas raise new privacy & security fears

Security experts warn new AI browsers like OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas pose serious privacy, safety and data risks amid growing adoption and emerging vulnerabilities.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Fri, 24th Oct 2025
MariaDB unifies AI, analytics & cloud in Enterprise Platform 2026
Data Analytics

MariaDB unifies AI, analytics & cloud in Enterprise Platform 2026

MariaDB launches its Enterprise Platform 2026, uniting AI, analytics and cloud capabilities to simplify data management and boost real-time insights for businesses.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Thu, 23rd Oct 2025
Red Hat AI 3 aims to streamline enterprise AI at production scale
Virtualisation

Red Hat AI 3 aims to streamline enterprise AI at production scale

Red Hat unveils Red Hat AI 3, enhancing enterprises' AI deployment with scalable inference, collaboration tools, and support for diverse hardware platforms.

By Sean Mitchell • 6 min read • Wed, 22nd Oct 2025
Salesforce & AWS deepen AI partnership to boost agentic adoption
Unified Communications

Salesforce & AWS deepen AI partnership to boost agentic adoption

Salesforce and AWS have expanded their partnership to accelerate AI agent adoption, enhancing workflows, data integration, and customer service globally.

By Shannon Williams • 5 min read • Fri, 17th Oct 2025
Salesforce & Google deepen AI partnership with Agentforce 360
Customer Relationship Management

Salesforce & Google deepen AI partnership with Agentforce 360

Salesforce and Google deepen AI partnership with Agentforce 360, integrating Gemini Enterprise to boost productivity and streamline workflows across Google Workspace.

By Jed Nykolle Harme • 4 min read • Fri, 17th Oct 2025
Oracle launches new AI Agent Marketplace for Fusion suite
Digital Transformation

Oracle launches new AI Agent Marketplace for Fusion suite

Oracle unveils its AI Agent Marketplace for Fusion Applications, enabling seamless AI integration with over 32,000 certified experts supporting deployments.

By Jake MacAndrew • 4 min read • Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Informatica & Oracle advance AI & data management on OCI
Private Cloud

Informatica & Oracle advance AI & data management on OCI

Informatica and Oracle deepen their partnership to enhance AI and data management with new native solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, launching 2025-26.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Salesforce & AWS advance secure AI agents in enterprise change
Unified Communications

Salesforce & AWS advance secure AI agents in enterprise change

Salesforce and AWS are deepening their decade-long collaboration to boost secure AI agent adoption in enterprises, enhancing data, contact centres and procurement.

By Jed Nykolle Harme • 5 min read • Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Adobe unveils LLM Optimizer to boost AI brand visibility
Marketing Technologies

Adobe unveils LLM Optimizer to boost AI brand visibility

Adobe launches LLM Optimizer to help businesses boost brand visibility and track AI-driven traffic across chat services and browsers.

By Melania Watson • 4 min read • Wed, 15th Oct 2025

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