This week we feature articles from Ethan Mollick, and Alberto Romero. Additional reading comes from Daniel Tunkelang, Cassie Kozyrkov, Mike Masnick, and Om Malik. News comes from Progress Software, Perplexity, TransPerfect, and TileDB. Next issue arrives February 12. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Which AI to use now: An updated opinionated guide Picking […]

TileDB, a database designed for discovery, announced its availability through AWS Marketplace. AWS customers now have access to TileDB’s omnimodal capabilities directly within AWS Marketplace, streamlining the purchase and management of TileDB within their AWS environment. This expanded accessibility ensures a more diverse range of organizations can advance research and therapeutic development. “Frontier” data is […]

Progress, a provider of AI-powered digital experiences and infrastructure software, announced the launch of Progress Data Cloud, a managed Data Platform as a service designed to simplify enterprise data and artificial intelligence (AI) operations in the cloud to accelerate digital transformation and AI initiatives while reducing operational complexity and IT overhead. Progress Data Cloud enables […]

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, announced the acquisition of H2A, a French company providing contact center customer experience and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions. H2A provides inbound and outbound customer support, telemarketing, order processing, and technical support for industries including telecommunications, retail, finance, and public services. The company’s focus […]

This week we feature articles from Juan Sequeda, Dean Allemang & Bryon Jacob, and Steve Jones. Additional reading comes from Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi, Tim Bray, Ethan Mollick, and Sara A. Metwalli. News comes from Contextual AI, Contentstack & Lytics, dbt Labs & SDF Labs, and Foxit. Next issue arrives January 29. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion […]

With Perplexity’s Sonar and Sonar Pro API (the latter generally available to all developers starting today), you can build your own generative search capabilities powered with real-time, web-wide research and Perplexity features. We’re also expanding public access to advanced features like JSON mode and search domain filters for select usage tiers.  The Sonar API is […]

Contextual AI, an enterprise RAG company, announced the general availability (GA) of the Contextual AI Platform, helping enterprises build specialized RAG agents to support expert knowledge work. While there is broad consensus that general-purpose AI agents are poised to streamline many generic tasks, Contextual AI believes that specialized RAG agents will instead be required to […]

dbt Labs, experts in analytics engineering, has acquired SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a data transformation technology. The acquisition will integrate SDF’s multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt, delivering improvements to dbt performance and enhancing the developer experience, efficiency, data velocity and data quality. the SDF […]

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, announced the launch of Foxit AI, a standalone web-based AI platform that delivers document-centric AI capabilities to users across industries. Foxit AI offers a comprehensive suite of features, including AI-powered chat assistance, document […]

Contentstack, a composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider, today announced its acquisition of Lytics, a real-time customer data platform. The acquisition, which closed in December of 2024, brings comprehensive audience insights, content analytics and profile management to the Contentstack platform, unlocking real-time personalization for known and unknown users. Major global brands including Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, […]

This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and Maria Mouschoutzi. Additional reading comes from Chia Jeng Yang, Nilay Patel & Mustafa Suleyman, Kate Knibbs, and Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan, and Louie Peters. News comes from Graphlit, RWS, Brightcove, and Grammarly & Coda. Next issue arrives January 22. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis OpenAI’s o3 […]

Unstruk Data Inc, an AI software provider, introduced the Graphlit Agent Tools Library, now live on GitHub (github.com/graphlit/graphlit-tools-python). This new toolkit builds on Graphlit’s RAG-as-a-Service platform capabilities, enabling developers to rapidly build AI agents that streamline data handling and LLM-driven workflows. By eliminating infrastructure complexities, Graphlit positions itself as a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to harness large […]

Brightcove, a streaming technology company, is sharing enhancements to its platform through strategic partnerships to enhance the video content creation, distribution and monetization, and to help customers build more cohesive, easy-to-deploy martech stacks. The relationship with Acquia is part of a broader initiative to co-sell and co-market integrated solutions that drive mutual customer success. For […]

Grammarly, an AI assistant, announced its intent to acquire productivity platform Coda. Coda’s CEO and Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra will become the CEO of Grammarly. The addition of Coda’s AI tools and surfaces aims to transform Grammarly into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents where customers can unlock access to company knowledge, generative AI […]

RWS, a provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property solutions, announced the availability of Tridion Sites 10.1. The latest version of RWS’s web content management platform includes several new features that enable more granular control and management of global content, multilingual marketing campaigns and digital experiences. New features include: New integrations and partnerships include TravelLaunch […]

This week we feature articles from Rita Kind-Envy, jreyesr, and Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu & Payal Modi. Additional reading comes from Giuseppe Futia, Joel Cunningham, Manuj Dhariwa & Shruti Dhariwal, and Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Alec Helbling, Jay Wang, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, & Polo Chau. News comes from […]

Brightcove launched Brightcove Marketing Studio for Sales, for global sales teams to easily create and deploy personalized video content. The video engagement platform gives companies control over brand and quality standards while providing unified measurement and insights across content and touch-points. Sales teams can create personalized video experiences for prospects and customers without needing video […]

Elastic a Search AI Company, announced its AI ecosystem to help enterprise developers accelerate building and deploying their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The Elastic AI Ecosystem provides developers with a curated, comprehensive set of AI technologies and tools integrated with the Elasticsearch vector database, designed to speed time-to-market, ROI delivery, and innovation. The Elastic […]

Snowflake announced its modern approach to bring transactional and analytical data together in a single, unified platform with Unistore. Unistore is powered by Hybrid Tables (now available on AWS), a table type that enables fast, high-concurrency point operations to support transactional workloads. With Unistore, customers can simplify their data architectures, while ensuring consistent security and […]

Box, Inc., an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced a new set of AI-powered enhancements to advance how organizations manage content. Box AI, initially an AI assistant that could answer questions or generate content, has evolved into Box AI Studio, a platform enabling enterprises to apply AI to complex use cases. Box customers can now […]