Top AI news of the week #4: Advsr AI Spotlight

Advsr AI Spotlight

Highlighting notable AI moves at the intersection of strategic operating companies and emerging startups. Big ideas in the works.

Strategic Deployments of AI 

• Dynatrace, an AI-powered observability platform, announced that it is integrating its full-stack, AI and LLM Observability solution into the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design enabling enterprises using NVIDIA’s validated design for NVIDIA RTX PRO servers and other NVIDIA Blackwell infrastructure to deploy their own on-premises AI factory with real-time observability and AI-driven insights delivered by the Dynatrace platform
• NVIDIA partnered with Microsoft to accelerate agentic AI innovation. Microsoft Discovery will integrate the NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservice, which optimizes AI inference for chemical simulations, to accelerate materials science research with property prediction and candidate recommendation. The platform will also integrate NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices
• Glean announced a strategic collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver on-premises deployment architecture for Glean’s Work AI platform. Running on Dell AI Factory infrastructure, the collaboration will enable enterprises to deploy Glean’s enterprise search and AI agents within their own data centers
• CrowdStrike announced its integration in the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design architecture. Enterprises can deploy CrowdStrike in NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory deployments to protect AI infrastructure, systems and models.
• Corcentric, a global provider of procurement and finance solutions, announced the expansion of the integration of Intelligent AP Automation into Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes for its numerous clients in France and the United States. Corcentric’s Intelligent AP Automation can detect all key invoice characteristics, such as type, size, and format
• Temenos Group, is a provider of banking software systems, launched the Temenos Product Manager Copilot, empowering banks to design, launch, test and optimize financial products faster using Generative AI
• Oracle Health, Cleveland Clinic, and G42 announced a strategic partnership to develop an AI-based healthcare delivery platform with the aim of improving patient care and public health management by leveraging AI, nation-scale data analytics, and intelligent clinical applications
• Amazon Web Services and SAP announced the launch of a new AI Co-Innovation Program to help partners build generative artificial intelligence applications and agents that help customers solve real-time business challenges
• Warby Parker announced a partnership with Google to develop AI-powered glasses intended for all-day wear. The partnership will combine Warby Parker’s approach to eyewear design with Google’s technology ecosystem

Strategic and AI Startup Collaborations

• Kovr.ai, an AI-native cyber compliance automation platform provider, and Second Front Systems (2F), a public-benefit software company focused on delivering mission-critical government solutions, announced a partnership to deliver a joint solution to accelerate the accreditation and deployment of secure software to government agencies and their technology partners
• Viz.ai, an AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination platform, announced a multi-year partnership with Sanofi and Regeneron to deploy and evaluate an AI-powered workflow solution for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Sakana AI, an IT firm that develops an AI-based model to generate text, images, video, code, and multimedia, announced a multi-year partnership agreement with MUFG Bank, the largest bank in Japan, to develop and deliver AI specialized for banking business
• AI-focused studio Primordial Soup entered into a strategic partnership with research lab Google DeepMind for the exploration of artificial intelligence’s creative utilities in filmmaking
• Icertis, a provider of AI-powered contract intelligence, announced plans to build on its partnership with SAP by making its Icertis Contract Intelligence platform available as a solution extension under the name SAP Ariba Contract Intelligence by Icertis
• Altais and Autonomize AI announced a partnership where Altais will introduce Autonomize AI Copilots, intelligent digital tools that assist care teams by handling routine administrative tasks, across Altais’ operations
• Exabeam, a provider of intelligence and automation that powers security operations, announced a partnership with cybersecurity AI company Vectra AI to integrate the Exabeam New-Scale Security Operations Platform with the Vectra AI Platform
• Aston Martin Aramco announced a multi-year partnership with CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning workloads, who joins the team as Official AI Cloud Computing Partner
• Elliptic Labs, a global AI software company and provider of AI Virtual Smart Sensors, partnered with Intel to bring smarter, more intuitive AI features to Intel’s next-gen laptops
• Arrcus, a hyperscale networking software company, partnered with UfiSpace, a provider of open disaggregated networking hardware, to deliver networking solutions purpose-built for the demands of AI infrastructure
• Amadeus, a transaction processor providing transaction processing power and technology solutions for the travel and tourism industry, and Google announced a partnership for Amadeus to migrate part of its technical platform to Google Cloud
• Smarter Technologies, an automation and insights platform for healthcare efficiency, announced the launch of an AI-powered revenue management platform that helps hospitals and health systems optimize administrative workflows and strengthen financial performance. The platform brings together Access Healthcare, SmarterDx and Thoughtful.ai

AI Startup Acquisitions

• Addepar, a technology and data platform for wealth, investment, and asset management, acquired Arcus, a provider of enterprise AI workflows
• Alation, a provider of enterprise data intelligence, acquired Numbers Station AI, a company building AI agents for data workflows
• Cohere acquired Ottogrid, a platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research
• Together AI, an AI Acceleration Cloud, acquired Refuel.ai, a specialist in transforming unstructured data into structured, high-quality datasets for AI applications
• Salesforce acquired Convergence.ai, an AI agent company recognized for developing advanced systems that perform complex, human-like tasks in digital environments
• Netrio acquired Agio, a managed IT and cybersecurity provider specializing in the financial services sector and operator of Gen AI-powered IT delivery platform AgioNow
• Global marketing services group Attivo acquired The Next Practice, an agency based with an AI-led approach to digital marketing
• Kailo Medical, a provider of structured reporting for medical imaging, acquired REI AI, a generative AI company
• Mental health and addiction recovery website Recovery.com acquired RedFox AI,  provider of verbal instructions and troubleshooting to help users complete at-home diagnostic tests
• Datavault AI, provider of AI-driven data experience, valuation and monetization, acquired assets from CompuSystems
• Weave, an all-in-one customer experience and payments software platform for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses, acquired Truelark, an AI-powered receptionist and front-desk automation platform
• NetNation, a provider of white-labeled online solutions for small businesses, acquired Yola, an AI-powered website builder platform
• CoStar Group acquired Matterport, a 3D modeling technology company
• Vibrint, a defense technology company, acquired Ampsight, a provider of multi-cloud engineering, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence solutions for federal agencies
• Elastic, a Search AI company, acquired Keep Alerting, an open source AIOps company that unifies alerts and automates incident remediation
• Baker Communications, a provider of sales performance transformation, announced that one of its affiliates acquired RNMKRS, a provider of AI-powered, game-based sales training simulations

AI Outtakes

• Some newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun-Times and at least one edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, published a syndicated summer book list that includes made-up books by famous authors. Chilean American novelist Isabel Allende never wrote a book called Tidewater Dreams, described in the “Summer reading list for 2025” as the author’s “first climate fiction novel.”  Percival Everett, who won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, never wrote a book called The Rainmakers, supposedly set in a “near-future American West where artificially induced rain has become a luxury commodity.”  Only five of the 15 titles on the list are real.

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