Solution Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of prominent Artificial Intelligence News on July 18, 2025.
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Artificial Intelligence News on July 18th2025
Akka launches agent AI platform for adaptive workflows
Akka unveils an all-in-one agent AI platform, bundling Akka orchestration, agents, memory and streaming to deliver three times faster development at a third of the computational cost. The platform is tailored to the construction, operation and evaluation of agent systems, from real-time analytics to autonomous edge deployment.
Read the full press release: Announcement of the Akka Agent Platform
Atos debuts Polaris AI platform for autonomous business automation
ATOS has launched the Polaris AI platform. It is a comprehensive system of autonomous AI agents that coordinate complex workflows for development, testing, and IT operations. With built-in capabilities for planning, inference, collaboration and continuous learning, Polaris allows organizations to automate business processes at scale.
Read the full press release: Atos launches the Atos Polaris AI platform
C-Gen.ai will be launched from Stealth on a disruptive AI infrastructure platform
C‑ gen.ai is launching a next-generation AI infrastructure platform to tackle industry issues, including rising cloud costs, insufficient GPU usage, and vendor lock-in. The orchestration platform optimizes GPU usage across public, private and hybrid environments. Power on scalable AI without closure of idle resources, reducing deployment times, and costly reorganizations.
Read the full press release: C-Gen.ai announces AI infrastructure platform
Concentric AI has granted its fifth and sixth patents. Advances in data security
Concentric AI was awarded the fifth and sixth US patents of 2025, highlighting innovation leadership in data-centric security and AI-driven risk management. Patents focus on sophisticated methods for automatically identifying, classifying and protecting sensitive content across enterprise data stores.
Read the full release: Concentric AI granted its fifth and sixth patents for 2025
coragix launches an MCP server for AI agents and taps directly onto the observability data
Coralogix has introduced an MCP server, a groundbreaking solution that provides AI agents with direct, secure access to streaming observability data. This feature helps automate incident detection, troubleshooting, and operational optimization, allowing organizations to build more intelligent, AI-driven operations and improve system reliability.
Read the full press release: Coralogix starts the MCP server
Esri and Microsoft will work together to provide next-generation AI enhancements for ArcGIS
ESRI announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to recharge its ARCGIS user base with powerful new AI capabilities. This collaboration provides advanced spatial analysis, automation, and deeper integration of ArcGIS generation AI tools, allowing you to unlock rich insights and value from geospatial data within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Read the full press release: ESRI is collaborating with Microsoft on AI enhancements
Honeycomb announces MCPs in the AI Agent category on AWS Marketplace
Honeycomb has debuted MCP (Model Context Protocol) on the AWS Marketplace under the new AI Agents and Tools category. MCP helps businesses securely connect, coordinate and manage AI agents and systems within the cloud. By streamlining the deployment and governance of AI tools, Honeycomb strengthens organizations to accelerate AI adoption with interoperable solutions that can be tested and trusted to meet the latest company needs.
Read the announcement: Honeycomb announces MCP availability on AWS Marketplace
Kognitos and Qbotica team up to bring “code as English” to enterprise operations
Kognitos and Qbotica participated in a strategic partnership to provide “code as English” process automation across key enterprise functions. This collaboration allows business users to explain automated workflows in plain English, dramatically reducing barriers to adoption, and scale financial, HR, and subsequent digital transformations.
Read the full press release: Kognitos and Qbotica partners bring English as code to Enterprise
LogicMonitor's EdwinAI Now available in the AI Agents & Tools category on AWS Marketplace
LogicMonitor has launched Edwin AI in the new AWS Marketplace AI Agent and Tools category. Edwin AI helps organizations automate IT operations, surface actionable insights, and resolve average time with intelligent conversation support. This means it's easy to deploy, access and integrate AWS customers.
Read the full press release: LogicMonitor announces Edwin AI availability
IBM says that its Chief AI executives will deliver greater ROI and faster innovation
IBM's latest research reveals increased salience and impact of the top AI officer (CAIO). Organizations with CAIOS report 10% higher ROI in AI investments, making them 24% more likely to outperform their peers in innovation. As CAIOS sets AI strategies, manages budgets and drives adoption, it plays a pivotal role in scaling AI values across the enterprise. The number of organizations appointing CAIOS has more than doubled since 2023..
Read the full report: How Chief AI Officers Deliver AI ROI – IBM
Intel & Weizmann announces algorithms to speed up AI models with speculative decoding
Researchers at Intel and Weizmann Institute have introduced groundbreaking algorithms using “speculative decoding” to surpass large language models up to 2.8 times more. This algorithm eliminates the need to retrain specialized draft models, making industry-grade AI accelerations widely accessible and affordable.
read more: Faster, smarter, more open: new ways to accelerate your AI models
Nutanix Survey finds Genai Fuels Moderniation and infrastructure is a bottleneck
Nutanix's latest Financial Services Enterprise Cloud Index reveals that almost every financial institution implements Genai and focuses on real-world use cases such as customer support and content generation. Despite strong recruitment, most companies cite skills gaps and infrastructure limitations as barriers to genai scaling. Containers and hybrid clouds are widely adopted as strategic enablers, but 97% need to do more to secure and optimize Genai operations safely and efficiently..
Read the survey overview: Nutanix announces the findings of the Financial Services Enterprise Cloud Index
Outsystems says: 93% of organizations build custom AI agents
The new OutSystems research report shows a sharp surge in companies prioritizing agent AI. This trend is to rebuild workforce skills and streamline complex processes by automating workflows, breaking down data silos, and fostering agile innovation. Leaders provide personalization, automation and compliance by citing agent AI transformation possibilities, helping organizations embrace AI-first thinking for the next wave of digital transformation.
Read more about the survey: Agent AI research using out-of-systems
Progress Software Acquires Nuclia to Accelerate Agent RAG AI Innovation
Progress Software has acquired Nuclia, a pioneer in Agent Search Advanced Generation (RAG) AI. The acquisition expands Progress's AI portfolio with advanced data discovery and conversation intelligence capabilities, allowing companies to quickly unlock actionable insights from diverse data sources and automation powered by SuperCharge AI.
Read the full press release: Progress Software acquires Nuclia, an innovator in Agent Lag AI
QDRANT Cloud Inference Simplifies the Multimodal AI App Devellopment
QDRANT has introduced QDRANT Cloud Inference, a managed service that allows developers to generate, store, and index vector embeddings of structured data (such as text and images) directly within a single environment. This unification reduces application development complexity, reduces latency, and allows for the search for AI assistants and multimodal applications and the rapid deployment of RAG systems. QDRANT supports curate models for both high density and multimodal (text and image) search scenarios.
Read the full release: QDRANT launches QDRANT cloud inference
Redwood Software Study: Automation Investment Up – But most tools are underutilized
A Redwood Software report finds that 73% of businesses have increased their automation spending over the past 12 months, but many tools are lacking. The study highlights that despite optimism and investment, organizations suffer from the complexity and integration challenges of automation platforms, leaving important possibilities for AI and process transformation..
Read the entire article: Redwood Software: 73% of companies have increased their automation spending, but the tools are underutilized
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