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Computing and data is a broad category. Our coverage of computing is largely limited to software, and we are mostly focused on unstructured data, semi-structured data, or mixed data that includes structured data.

Topics include computing platforms, analytics, data science, data modeling, database technologies, machine learning / AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, augmented reality, bots, programming languages, natural language processing applications such as machine translation, and knowledge graphs.

Related categories: Semantic technologies, Web technologies & information standards, and Internet and platforms.

Adobe launches Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator 

March 18, 2025 /

Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator enables businesses to build, manage and orchestrate AI agents from Adobe and third-party ecosystems. With AEP as the foundation, agents are built with a deep understanding of customer data and content to enhance decision-making, as well as support for multiagent collaboration, and decision science and language models that enable dynamic and adaptive reasoning. AEP data is brought together under Experience Data Model schemas, which derive meaning from unrelated data and enables impactful customer experiences.

Adobe unveiled a suite of Experience Platform Agents to be leveraged directly within Adobe enterprise applications. Built on Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator, these out-of-the-box AI agents increase the capacity of teams by enhancing applications, such as Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (CDP), Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Journey Optimizer and Adobe Customer Journey Analytics.

Adobe Experience Platform Agents will augment the capabilities of marketing and creative teams to drive personalization. Adobe introduced ten AI Agents, including: Account Qualification Agent, Audience Agent, Content Production Agent, Data Insights Agent, Data Engineering Agent, Experimentation Agent, Journey Agent, Product Advisor Agent, Site Optimization Agent, and Workflow Optimization Agent.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/03/adobe-launches-adobe-experience-platform-agent-orchestrator-for-businesses

Palantir and Databricks partner

March 13, 2025 /

Databricks, a Data and AI company, and Palantir Technologies Inc. a provider of enterprise operating systems, announced a strategic product partnership that combines Palantir’s AI operating system and Databricks’ platform for AI, data warehousing, and data engineering. The partnership will provide an open and scalable data architecture that combines Palantir’s Ontology System with Databricks’ processing scale and data and AI platform. Palantir and Databricks are delivering real-time, AI-powered autonomous workflows to joint customers through the integration of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Palantir AIP. Through the combination of Unity Catalog through Delta Sharing and Palantir’s multimodal security system, joint customers will be able to unlock GenAI, machine learning, and data warehousing within a secure, unified and scalable environment.

This partnership lowers the technical and operational barriers to leveraging GenAI and increases customer value by efficiently deploying autonomous workflows into production. Through joint engineering, customers can consistently govern and secure their entire data estate with a combination of Databricks’ Unity Catalog and Palantir’s military-grade security so enterprises can build on a trusted foundation while maintaining efficiency and keeping TCO low. The integration of Databricks and Palantir is already serving a range of mission-critical outcomes for customers.

https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/palantir-and-databricks-announce-strategic-product-partnership ■ https://www.palantir.com

Elsevier launches ScienceDirect AI

March 12, 2025 /

Elsevier, provider of advanced information and decision support, launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect, a platform for trusted, peer-reviewed research.

Users can search and get answers from within the full-text of 14 million articles and book chapters, using their own words to describe what they need and why. ScienceDirect AI searches across the millions of documents in its index to provide a Summary Response with references, Source Snippets for each reference, and short Related Insights summaries while linking back to the original document. A conversational feature answers questions about the content of a specific full-text article or book chapter and allows researchers to ask further questions.

ScienceDirect AI’s Compare Experiments tool takes a set of articles and creates a table breaking down each experiment within them, drawing out aspects of each including goals, methods and results.

ScienceDirect AI’s use of third-party LLMs is private, no information is stored or used to train public models, and all data is stored in a protected and private environment exclusive to Elsevier.

https://elsevier.shorthandstories.com/sciencedirect-ai

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen Content Fusion 8.0

March 11, 2025 /

Syncro Soft, developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, released Oxygen Content Fusion 8.0, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation.

Version 8.0 turns Oxygen Content Fusion into an AI-driven tool designed to boost writer productivity by integrating with the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant. This version also consolidates the Oxygen Content Fusion position as a Content Management System for DITA content stored in a Git repository. 

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant offers a suite of AI features to enhance content creation and editing. Once installed, the AI Positron Assistant side-pane becomes accessible in the Personal Workspace, providing a range of AI-driven actions and features:

  • Content generation actions can be used to expand a DITA topic by refining its content, adding markup, and generating documentation based on referenced images using Vision support, to generate content based on uploaded images, produce alternate text for images in DITA, or generate MathML formulas.
  • Content improvement actions are available to proofread documents, validate documents and suggest fixes for identified issues, add semantic inline DITA markup to plain text content, modify content based on suggestions found in the comments.
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) support allows the AI Positron to find similar content from the personal workspace.

https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html

Implicit launches AI platform to transform product expertise

March 10, 2025 /

Implicit, a AI technology company, announced the launch of its AI platform designed to transform customer experience with AI-driven agent support and knowledge management. With a blend of agent-assist and self-service experiences, Implicit enables organizations to deploy support solutions tailored to their specific needs, improving efficiency and accuracy. The solution includes:

  • Implicit Knowledge: A self-service customer support chatbot that mirrors the expertise and empathy of top-tier technicians, allowing users to resolve issues without human intervention.
  • Implicit Support: An AI-powered product expert copilot that understands every documented product, issue, and resolution.

Addresses challenges faced by customer success and knowledge management teams:

  1. Ambiguous customer queries.
  2. Constantly evolving product lines and associated issues.
  3. The complexity of interconnected product ecosystems.
  4. The difficulty of managing distributed and private knowledge assets.
  5. Inconsistent, incomplete, or outdated knowledge bases.
  6. Multiple and often inconsistent authors contributing to knowledge repositories, including legacy documentation.

Implicit’s technology is built on knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, and chain-of-thought reasoning. By ingesting private product data – including product catalogs and taxonomies, problem and resolution situations, and error codes – the system intelligently maps relationships between products, their potential issues, and optimal solutions. The platform incorporates a human feedback loop for continuous improvement and provides citations for verification.

https://www.implicit.cloud/article/introducing-implicit-the-future-of-product-expertise

Coveo augments AI support

March 5, 2025 /

Coveo announced three advancements to augment AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI projects: Coveo for Agentforce, and expanded suite of Coveo APIs and the Coveo Agentic AI Design Partner Program.

Coveo for Agentforce natively integrates into Salesforce, grounding AI agents in contextually relevant, enterprise-wide knowledge—wherever it resides. Coveo for Agentforce is focused on enhancing deployments for large, complex enterprises, to help ensure it delivers the most relevant, up-to-date knowledge instantly. Beyond the first agentic packaged application, Coveo for Agentforce, Coveo’s portfolio continues to grow with both managed and custom AI solutions powered by the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform.

The Coveo suite of APIs has been enhanced to include the Search API, Passage Retrieval API, the Case Classification API and the new Answer API, providing developers with more flexibility to build AI-powered experiences that are precise, secure, and business-aware.

Coveo is also launching an Agentic AI Design Partner Program to collaborate with enterprises. This program allows participants to share their technology needs and challenges while working directly with Coveo’s Product team to tackle the fundamental problems AI applications continue to face.

Coveo for Agentforce is available today in the AgentExchange. 

https://www.coveo.com/en/company/news-releases/2025/agenticai

Couchbase unveils Edge Server

March 4, 2025 /

Couchbase, Inc., a developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world, launched Couchbase Edge Server, an offline-first, lightweight database server and sync solution designed to provide low latency data access, consolidation, storage and processing for applications in resource-constrained edge environments.

Edge applications that rely solely on cloud databases can be slowed down due to connectivity challenges, but local databases don’t always offer a solution as they can be difficult to deploy within limited computing environments.

Couchbase Edge Server is built on the Couchbase Lite core engine, an AI-ready embedded database for running critical applications on hundreds of thousands of client devices. The Edge Server is deployed as a standalone server and provides support for a simple access interface for local client access. It delivers offline-first benefits through seamless synchronization – downstream with Couchbase Lite-based edge clients and upstream to Couchbase Capella and self-managed Couchbase instances.

Couchbase Edge Server enables organizations to run edge applications efficiently on as little as one gigabyte of RAM on a single board computer. This can dramatically reduce the cost of edge deployments across many locations, by serving communities of web and mobile clients at each location through a local database backend.

https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-edge-server-lightweight-sync/

data.world announces Archie Chat for enterprise data catalogs

March 3, 2025 /

data.world, an enterprise data catalog for the modern data stack, announced the public beta launch of Archie Chat, an AI-powered catalog assistant that improves how users interact with their enterprise data catalog. Archie Chat helps users find answers to their questions quickly through natural language conversation, driving catalog adoption and enhancing data discovery across organizations.

Archie Chat, the evolution of data.world’s AI capabilities, combines knowledge graph technology with modern language model architecture to create a more intuitive data discovery experience. The assistant enables users to interact conversationally with their data catalog, receive guided support with catalog management tasks, and quickly find precise information without specialized query knowledge.

Archie Chat is built specifically for enterprise data environments, ensuring security, accuracy, and contextual relevance. Features include:

  • Self-hosted language model technology that ensures sensitive data remains under customer control
  • Transparent “thought process” documentation that shows users exactly where information is sourced
  • Multi-turn conversations allowing users to refine and follow up on queries naturally
  • Cross-platform integration with Slack, browser interfaces, and a public API, meeting users where they work
  • Enterprise-grade security with no data sharing to third parties for model training
  • Built on data.world’s proprietary AI Context Engine (AICE) for agent orchestration.

https://data.world

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