Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of May 30; Updates from Infosys, Kyndryl, PlainID & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of May 30, 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 May 30, 2025
Bito Nabs #5.7 Million in Funding for AI Code Reviewing
Its flagship product, the AI Code Review Agent, integrates directly into GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket workflows to provide developers with line-by-line feedback, issue detection, performance optimizations, and one-click fix suggestions across over 50 programming languages.
Chalk Raises $50 Million in Series A Funding for AI Inference Tools
Existing solutions like Databricks and Snowflake solve training data pipelines, and feature stores provide low-latency access to pre-computed data. But these incumbents don’t provide a solution for applications that require fresh data, with complex computation, at inference time.
Cisco Says: Agentic AI to Dominate Customer Support by 2028
88 percent report they feel confident that the agentic AI-led customer experience provided by technology partners will help their organization achieve its goals – for example, making their IT environments and operations more efficient, resilient and secure, accelerating their most important strategic IT projects, and maximizing value from their IT investments.
Context Secures $11 Million in Seed Funding for AI-Native Office Suite
Context reimagines productivity from the ground up as an AI-first experience. Its proprietary Context Engine achieves industry leading long context processes of over 50 million tokens without intelligence degradation, allowing users to upload notes, data files, or existing drafts and simply describe their desired outcome.
DataRobot Launches Open-Source Framework for Performant Agentics
Syftr empowers AI practitioners to programmatically discover and implement the best combinations of components, parameters, tools, and strategies for agentic use cases, optimized for accuracy, processing speed, and cost.
Hex Secures $70 Million in Funding for AI Data Science
Hex is taking an integrated approach and bringing users of all technicality levels and use cases together in one place. With AI woven into every layer of the workflow, Hex accelerates speed-to-insight, eliminates redundant work, and allows data teams to scale impact across their organizations.
Infosys Launches 200 New Enterprise AI Agents
The AI agents are designed to drive tangible outcomes for enterprises by transforming complex workflows and managing intricate, multi-agent business operations efficiently at scale. These enterprise AI agents cater to multiple sectors, including healthcare, finance, retail, telecom, manufacturing, and agriculture.
John Snow Labs Acquires WiseCube
WiseCube unifies and analyzes disjointed biomedical datasets to provide fast, literature-backed answers to complex medical questions. Its integration of cutting-edge biomedical ontologies and documents ensures access to the most current and comprehensive medical knowledge.
Kyndryl Identifies Why Most Aren’t Yet ‘Winning’ with AI
Based on a survey of more than 1,000 senior business and technology executives across 25 industries and eight geographies, Kyndryl’s first People Readiness Report reveals a striking gap between AI investment and workforce preparedness.
Leap.new Unveils Agentic AI That Builds & Deploys Apps to the Cloud
Unlike other AI app builders that generate toy frontends or lock you into proprietary Backend-as-a-Service platforms, Leap.new is built for real-world engineering: it writes backend code, defines infrastructure, and integrates with your workflow to deploy to your cloud on AWS or Google Cloud.
New Relic Integrates with GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
It gives enterprises a solution for software development that leverages AI to establish a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement. When intelligent agents automatically take steps to ensure application health, enterprises experience increased system reliability and developer productivity.
OpenBOM’s New Engineering Agent is Now Live and in the Wild
Seamlessly integrated into the OpenBOM platform, the AI Agent boosts productivity without changing how engineers work. It brings invisible support, engineer-friendly automation, and smart insights through OpenBOM’s graph-based digital thread.
Qlik Says: AI is the Macro Strategy but Data Complexity Persists
Amid mounting pressure from investors for measurable returns on AI investments, the data underscores the growing urgency to turn AI ambition into real-world results. The urgency around AI execution is particularly pronounced among younger executives. The survey found 99 percent of leaders aged 25-34 view proactive automation as critical to business success, compared to 83 percent of executives aged 55 and older.
Sisense Launches New ‘Intelligence’ AI-Powered Tools
The assistant is complemented by a robust suite of GenAI capabilities that make analytics more accessible and actionable. Overall, Sisense Intelligence represents a fundamental innovation in how organizations leverage and extract insights from their data, make smarter business decisions, and drive more impactful outcomes.
Stifflet Releases New AI Agents for Observability
With data volumes doubling year over year and AI workloads moving rapidly into production, data reliability has become a business-critical function and a massive scaling challenge. Sifflet’s AI-native approach is already helping customers to handle these workloads with existing functionality.
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 by SR Expert at Insight Jam Paula Caligiuri, PhD.: Resilience is About Speed, Not Grit
According to our 2025 survey, 91 percent of tech professionals say resilience is critical. But more than a third (35 percent) say they struggle to recover from setbacks. And one in four (26 percent) don’t know how to reframe a failure as a learning opportunity. In a space defined by constant change, resilience is a performance multiplier.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst AI with John Santaferraro Featuring RapidCanvas CEO Rahul Pangam: What Will BI Look Like in 3 Years?
They discuss how AI is fundamentally transforming BI from template-based dashboards to conversational, agent-driven platforms that can handle end-to-end data processes. The conversation explores how generative AI and agentic AI will create natural language interfaces, autonomous agents, and strategic thought partnerships that make data-driven decision making accessible without extensive technical teams.
NEW by SR Expert at Insight Jam Doug Shannon: Companies Are Cutting Jobs, But They Can’t Replace Knowledge
The latest headlines say Klarna, Duolingo, Cisco, and others are “replacing workers with AI.” Many are surprised; I am not. Yet, I want us to stop and think before accepting the easy narrative. Too often, leaders believe cutting jobs equals innovation. They use layoffs to show change, pressure teams, or drive a culture of fear-based adoption. That is not transformation. That is risk.
NEW by SR Executive Editor Tim King: A Foundation for Empathetic AI Policy
AI is not just reshaping workflows—it is redefining power. In this new paradigm, the question is no longer whether we should use AI, but how we use it responsibly—and whom we prioritize in its design and deployment. We believe that answer is Empathetic AI Policy.
On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Forrester Research & Amazon QuickSight for Exclusive Show on Unlocking the Power of GenBI
GenAI-based BI (commonly referred as GenBI) is rapidly emerging as the new standard to deliver actionable insights that can power superior decision-making while increasing effectiveness, responsiveness, and cost savings for organizations across industries. However, organizations must navigate a dynamic set of technologies and capabilities to ensure their GenBI solutions are quickly providing trusted business insights, operational excellence, while delivering bottom-line cost savings in parallel.
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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.
