Data & Analytics

Meta is buying AI analytics startup Sundial for an internal analytics team, and Sundial stops serving outside customers at close. Export your metric definitions and revoke its warehouse access before then.

Boomi bought Elementary Data for a reported $40-45M. Elementary says contracts and standalone purchase hold only 'at this time' and 'for now,' so Cloud customers should lock terms before renewal and keep the Apache 2.0 package ready as an exit.

Salesforce will fold Loops' causal KPI analyst into Tableau and said nothing about existing Loops contracts. Customers off Tableau should lock in export and renewal terms before the early-November close.

Work IQ's Dynamics 365 preview builds Copilot's semantic model from your existing views, forms and relationships, outdated ones included, and lets agents write back to records. It is on by default in some new production environments and bills in Copilot Credits.

Hightouch bought Strata, whose agent builds and maintains custom API integrations from a plain-language description. The deal is silent on Strata's standalone customers, pricing, and how agent-made changes are reviewed before they write to production.

KumoRFM's 14-point RelBench lead was over a LightGBM that saw only one table. Keep XGBoost in production, test KumoRFM against your own model, and get the NIM licence in writing first.

Inside one Snowflake account, Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3.60/$18.00 per million tokens via AI_COMPLETE but $3.00/$15.00 via the REST API, and AI Credits never take your warehouse discount. Fix the AI path first, then move batch compute onto Iceberg. Leave the catalog last.

Qwen-Audio 3.1 bills speech recognition in tokens: at 25 tokens per audio second it works out to about $0.02 an hour in Singapore, against $0.15-$0.26 at AssemblyAI and Deepgram. The catches are a five-minute request cap, per-channel billing and a residency decision.

Databricks bought Row Zero for Genie and pledged support for unnamed non-Databricks data sources. Row Zero's standard terms still allow 30-day cancellation, so Snowflake and BigQuery customers should get connector names and dates in writing.

Progress closed its $400M purchase of Domo's assets on Sept 22. Customer contracts moved to Progress; the founder, the cash and $900M of tax losses stayed with the shell now called Huckleberry.ai.

Snowflake Copilot is the wrong tool for executives querying in English. Cortex Analyst on Snowflake or Genie on Databricks wins — once you build the semantic layer; ThoughtSpot only earns its seat price across multiple warehouses.

AssemblyAI is the default for post-call transcription and Deepgram for live voice agents. Self-hosting pays past roughly 2-6M call minutes a month with a two-engineer team — and then the model to run is NVIDIA Parakeet, not Whisper.

Databricks took managed Iceberg tables to GA, so the file format is no longer the lock — but external writes are still Private Preview, and the real markup is GPU serving at $5.50 an A100-hour against $2.79 at Lambda. Move the serving, keep the lakehouse.

Deloitte acquired substantially all of Wavicle's assets on August 31, so any statement of work with a standard anti-assignment clause needs your written consent to assign. If Deloitte & Touche LLP signs your audit opinion, SOX 201 may bar the engagement outright.

Toyota Motor North America cut agent delivery from six months and six engineers to four days and one engineer. The saving came from amortizing security review and ingestion into a shared platform — which now leaves one permission gate holding back 50+ agents.

Eleven AI observability options priced against one workload — 500,000 agent runs a month, 5 million spans, 10 GB of traces. The same telemetry costs $49 at SigNoz Cloud and about $930 at W&B Weave, and retention is a bigger multiplier than traffic.

Grab published five months of before-and-after numbers on its analytics agents: mechanical tickets fell from 44% to 30% and cycle times about 33%. The constraint it names is certified metric context, not model capability — and the one benchmark that holds the model fixed puts the semantic layer's lift at about 21 points.

Dynatrace is paying $915 million for Arize, and the change that matters is the meter: Arize bills trace spans with unlimited users, Dynatrace bills $0.20 per GiB ingested and $0.0035 per GiB scanned. Normalize your OpenInference attributes to OpenTelemetry gen_ai.* in your own collector before the deal closes.

DOE's Genesis Open Models portal wants proprietary scientific data and the first window closes August 14. Applying transfers nothing — but there is no published contributor agreement, so the handling terms are yours to draft.

Visa is paying $2.4 billion in cash for BioCatch, the behavioral-biometrics layer running inside more than 350 banks. Neither announcement commits to network neutrality, standalone pricing or data limits — and the roughly eight months before close is the only window in which a bank client can get those in writing.

Datadog meters LLM spans only, LangSmith meters whole traces, Arize meters every span plus ingested GB. On the same million-run agent workload those units diverge four-fold — and two of the four vendors publish no overage rate at all.

Databricks lists 47 servable models to Snowflake's ~30, but Unity Catalog keeps Delta tables read-only to outside engines and Snowflake's own catalog blocks third-party writes outright. Snowflake's exit advantage is narrower than the decks claim: it writes into a catalog you own. On a normalised 10-million-ticket workload the platforms land within 2x of each other; the model tier swings the bill 40x.

Box's new AI security controls tackle the #1 enterprise barrier: 90% of IT leaders fear data exposure from AI agents. What CIOs need to evaluate now.

Microsoft's CEO just warned enterprises they're handing over their competitive edge with every AI prompt. Here's what it costs and how to stop it.

Every AI prompt trains your vendor's model. Nadella names why 68% of enterprises are silently leaking IP—and prescribes a 5-step architecture fix.

Satya Nadella's bombshell: every AI prompt leaks your proprietary knowledge to the models. Here's the hidden cost no enterprise has priced in.

Schneider Electric's $3.1 billion acquisition of Cognite — the largest Norwegian software exit ever — signals that industrial AI is won at the data layer, not the model layer. With 85% of industrial AI projects failing due to data quality and 68% of manufacturers stuck in pilot purgatory, the deal reshapes the competitive landscape for Siemens, Honeywell, and every enterprise running physical operations.

Datadog acquired Adaptive ML to build AI that learns from production data. Here's what RLOps means for enterprise leaders — and why it changes AI economics.

Snowflake commits $6B over 5 years to AWS for agentic AI workloads. Why bringing AI to governed data beats moving data to AI—and what it means for your stack.

Databricks jumps from $134B to $175B in 4 months. 800+ customers pay $1M+/year, 65% YoY growth. What the data platform war means for your 2026 AI stack.

$165-175B valuation talks signal platform consolidation wins. 800+ enterprises pay $1M+ annually as data lakehouse architecture replaces legacy stacks.

Nvidia paid $400M+ for Kumo AI on June 3. Here's why relational foundation models beat LLMs on structured enterprise data — and the CIO decision framework.

70% of AI Projects Fail: The Hidden Cause Key insights for enterprise AI leaders on what this means and what to do next.

Salesforce launched Tableau's Agentic Analytics Platform with 33M semantic models, six pillars, and a decision engine. The framework CIOs need to choose.

Sigma hit $200M ARR and a $3B valuation as Databricks, ServiceNow and Workday backed its agentic analytics pivot. The framework CIOs need now.

Dun and Bradstreet surveyed 10,000 firms across 32 countries: 97 percent are running AI, only 5 percent have ready data. Score your stack now.

Honeycomb's Agent Timeline launches into a market where 88% of agents never reach production. Here's the vendor matrix and readiness checklist CIOs need.

D&B survey of 10,000 enterprises reveals the AI paradox: widespread investment and early returns collide with data governance gaps that block scaling to production.

Gartner says 40% of AI deployments will require dedicated observability by 2028. Without it, enterprises face a $7.2M average failure tax. Here's the playbook.

Fivetran 2026 study: 60% of enterprises spend millions on agentic AI, but only 15% have the data foundation. Score your readiness with a 25-point gap assessment.

Hightouch raised $150M at $2.75B for warehouse-native agentic marketing. 3-year TCO vs Salesforce Data Cloud + 25-point readiness score.

IBM consolidated Instana, Turbonomic, SevOne, and Cloud Pak for AIOps into Concert — an agentic operations platform that bets correlation beats replacement.

Google's Cross-Cloud Lakehouse lets AI agents query AWS S3 and Azure Data Lake as native via Apache Iceberg — zero copy, no egress. CIO and CFO impact.

Omni closed $120M at a $1.5B valuation from ex-Looker founders. BambooHR, Mercury, dbt adopt its semantic layer to stop AI hallucinations on enterprise data.

At $1.5B valuation, Resolve AI is pioneering 'AI for production'—a new category automating incident response. What enterprise leaders need to know.

Gartner's April 16 report: AI winners invest 4x more in data and governance, not models. Only 39% of tech leaders trust AI ROI. What CIOs must do now.

TextQL raised $17M led by Blackstone to scale agentic analytics that runs on-prem inside Fortune 500 VPCs. What CTOs and CFOs should do now.

Cisco acquires Galileo to add AI observability to Splunk. Deal signals that hallucination detection and agent monitoring are now enterprise infrastructure, not nice-to-haves.

Traditional observability misses 90% of AI agent security risks. Microsoft's updated Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) reveals why logs, metrics, and traces need AI-native signals to detect indirect prompt injection, multi-turn jailbreaks, and trust-boundary violations. Enterprise security teams need the 5-step framework to implement AI observability before production.

Snowflake Project SnowWork Cuts Enterprise Workflow Time 40% With AI Automation. For enterprise decision-makers: strategic analysis, cost implications, and i...

Dash0 Hits $1B Valuation with $110M AI Observability Round. For enterprise decision-makers: strategic analysis, cost implications, and implementation guidanc...

IBM and NVIDIA Close the Pilot-to-Production Gap. For CFOs and finance leaders: cost implications, budget planning, and ROI benchmarks from enterprise AI dep...

AI Agent Adoption in 2026: What NVIDIA's Research Reveals Ab Key insights for enterprise AI leaders on what this means and what to do next.