Category: Computing & data (Page 1 of 92)

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.

Adobe releases AI agents for customer experience orchestration

September 10, 2025 / NewsShark

Adobe announced the general availability of AI agents to help businesses build, deliver and optimize customer experiences and marketing campaigns. Powered by the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) Agent Orchestrator, Adobe is also creating an AI platform for businesses to manage and customize agents from Adobe and across third-party ecosystems, ensuring agents can understand context, plan multi-step actions, and refine responses. AEP, used by businesses to connect real-time data across their organization, anchors Adobe’s offerings in understanding enterprise data, content and workflows.

Adobe also announced the general availability of AEP Agent Orchestrator, including a reasoning engine to drive contextually relevant and goal-oriented automated actions, with support for refinement using a “human-in-the-loop” approach.

Out-of-the-box agents will be available in Adobe applications such as Real-Time Customer Data Platform, Experience Manager, Journey Optimizer, and Customer Journey Analytics.

Audience Agent helps teams create and monitor audiences for personalization initiatives.
Journey Agent supports building and optimizing customer journeys across channels.
Experimentation Agent analyzes test results and suggests optimizations.
Data Insights Agent enables visualization and forecasting from customer signals.
Site Optimization Agent flags website issues such as broken links or low-performing pages.
Product Support Agent assists users with troubleshooting, case creation, and tracking.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/09/adobe-announces-general-availability-ai-agents

Atlassian to acquire The Browser Company

September 4, 2025 / NewsShark

From the Atlassian blog… (Also see details from The Browser Company)

Building the AI browser for knowledge workers – a browser that helps you do, not just browse.

Today, I’m excited to share an exciting step forward for Atlassian. We’ve entered into an agreement to acquire The Browser Company of New York, the team behind the incredible Dia and Arc browsers.

By combining The Browser Company’s passion for building browsers people love with Atlassian’s deep expertise on how the world’s best teams operate, we have the opportunity to transform how work gets done in the AI era…

Today’s browsers weren’t built for work. They were built for browsing – reading the news, watching videos, looking up recipes. And sure, you may do some of those things in your browser during the workday, but most of those tabs represent a task that needs to get done. A meeting to schedule. A design to review. A work item to update in Jira. A memo to write. Before you know it, it’s hard to see through the forest of tabs.

Knowledge workers need a browser designed for their specific needs, not one that’s been built for everyone on the planet. That’s what we will build with The Browser Company. Our vision is to make Dia the browser:

Optimized for the SaaS apps where you spend your day. Whether you’re working in email or a project management tool or a design app, your tabs will be enriched with context that helps move your work forward.

Packed with AI skills and your personal work memory to connect the dots between your apps, tabs, and tasks.

Built with trust and security in mind Security, compliance, and admin controls will be baked into every aspect of Dia.

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-acquires-the-browser-company ■ https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/your-tuesday-in-2030

Neo4j launches Infinigraph

September 4, 2025 / NewsShark

Neo4j, a graph database and analytics platform, unveiled Infinigraph: a new distributed graph architecture available in Neo4j’s self-managed offering. Infinigraph enables Neo4j’s database to run operational and analytical workloads together in a single system at 100TB+ scale, without fragmenting the graph, duplicating infrastructure, or compromising performance.

Teams can run both types of workloads in the same system, without ETL pipelines, sync delays, or redundant infrastructure. It can power autonomous agents, compliance systems, and transactional applications on one consistent source of connected truth. Teams can detect fraud and analyze fraud rings from the same dataset. They can generate real-time customer recommendations while analyzing decades of customer data and behavioral trends.

The database guarantees full ACID compliance so that every read, write, and update is consistent, reliable, and recoverable, even with billions of relationships and thousands of concurrent queries run in real time.

The new architecture uses sharding that distributes the graph’s property data across different members of a cluster. The graph stays logically whole, queries behave as expected, and applications scale without code changes or manual workarounds.

Infinigraph is available now as part of Neo4j’s Enterprise Edition and will soon be available in AuraDB, Neo4j’s cloud-native platform for graph applications.

https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-launches-infinigraph

Bloomreach and Snowflake partner

July 22, 2025 / NewsShark

Bloomreach, a platform for personalization, today announced a new partnership with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, empowering businesses to activate enterprise-grade data infrastructures across marketing channels. With Bloomreach and Snowflake, businesses can combine customer engagement with maximum personalization, connecting customer data stored in Snowflake with Bloomreach’s AI-powered marketing solutions. This partnership ensures marketers can activate their Snowflake data instantly and intelligently through Bloomreach.

Bloomreach’s native Snowflake integration is already available to businesses. It securely syncs customer attributes, event data, and product catalogs from Snowflake into Bloomreach. Businesses unlock the full value of their customer data, breaking down silos between storage and activation, and enabling personalization powered by AI.

Additionally, this integration enables marketing teams to:

Power Loomi AI agents in Bloomreach with enriched customer and product intelligence
Automate campaign triggers based on Snowflake events
Deliver timely personalization with fresh data and hyper-relevant insights
Safeguard sensitive data through selective import capabilities, transferring only the specific data required for a given use case

https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2025/bloomreach-and-snowflake-partner-to-unify-customer-data-and-ai-driven-activation-helping-marketers-personalize-the-entire-customer-journey/

TileDB announces partnership with Databricks to harness multimodal data

July 22, 2025 / NewsShark

TileDB, a multimodal database company, and Databricks, a Data and AI company, announced a strategic partnership to eliminate data silos preventing healthcare and life sciences organizations from fully leveraging AI-driven drug discovery and clinical insights.

The partnership addresses the challenge of integrating complex scientific data that TileDB supports, including multiomics, medical imaging, and clinical records with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ analytics workflows — enabling the development of AI agents that can analyze all data types without requiring costly data migration or transformation.

TileDB addresses offers a sophisticated, omnimodal data management platform, which takes the notion of multimodality beyond text, video, audio, and images, and adds scientific modalities using multi-dimensional arrays. Scientific modalities are ever-evolving, and the omnimodal philosophy can support whatever is the most relevant and important data today. The TileDB – Databricks partnership establishes a bi-directional bridge between specialized data storage and powerful compute capabilities, underpinned by Databricks’ unified data governance model.

The integration is available now in private preview with select customers, and enables data stored in TileDB’s high-performance array database to run on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, and vice versa. Additional features will be rolled out in the second half of this year.

https://www.tiledb.com

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 6.0

July 3, 2025 / NewsShark

All Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 6.0 distributions now feature the advanced GPT-4.1 OpenAI model as default. All AI action prompts have improved quality, consistency, and reuse. The users of the Enterprise distribution get new connectors for Google Gemini and Vertex AI, as well as enhanced Microsoft Azure OpenAI integration and simplified configuration.

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant brings automatic validation and correction of AI-generated content, and smarter document context expansion for the AI Positron Fix action. User preferences and rules can be saved as persistent memories. AI context can be supplemented with additional files automatically, or by manually attaching files to conversations, and prompts can be entered using voice input. AI actions can be invoked directly from chat, the Improve Readability action supports audience level customization, and AI development actions are available for more document types.

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant for Eclipse now works with a broader range of editors (Java, Python, C/C++, Perl, and plain text). It offers a dedicated framework for developing custom AI actions, DITA documentation draft generation from configuration files, and AI-enabled templates for rapid creation of XSLT, XSD, Schematron, JSON Schema, and DTD files. Installation and updates are streamlined with the Eclipse update site support.

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

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers accessing content by default

July 1, 2025 / NewsShark

Cloudflare, Inc. a connectivity cloud company, announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, by default. Starting today, website owners can choose if they want AI crawlers to access their content, and decide how AI companies can use it. AI companies can also now clearly state their purpose – if their crawlers are used for training, inference, or search – to help website owners decide which crawlers to allow. Cloudflare’s new default setting is a step toward a more sustainable future for both content creators and AI innovators.

AI companies will now be required to obtain explicit permission from a website before scraping. Upon sign-up with Cloudflare, every new domain will now be asked if they want to allow AI crawlers, giving customers the choice upfront to explicitly allow or deny AI crawlers access. This significant shift means that every new domain starts with the default of control, and eliminates the need for webpage owners to manually configure their settings to opt out. Customers can easily check their settings and enable crawling at any time if they want their content to be freely accessed.

https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-just-changed-how-ai-crawlers-scrape-the-internet-at-large

Grammarly to acquire Superhuman

June 30, 2025 / NewsShark

Grammarly, an AI assistant for communication and productivity, announced its intent to acquire Superhuman, an AI-native email app that helps users respond faster and save hours every week on their email communications. This acquisition accelerates Grammarly’s evolution into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents, positioning email as a critical communication surface in the company’s vision of an agentic future.

Email is the number-one use case of Grammarly for professionals, with the AI assistant helping to revise over 50 million emails per week across more than 20 email providers, including Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and Superhuman.

Superhuman brings more than productivity gains to the acquisition. Building on its impressive adoption, Superhuman is defining the future of email and evolving into a comprehensive workspace for agents. Now imagine taking that efficiency even further with AI agents that triage your inbox, schedule your meetings, perform deep research over all your content, and write full emails in your own voice and tone. Imagine those agents reasoning, problem-solving, incorporating detailed context about your work, and interacting with other systems and agents. This future platform will enable scenarios where users can work with multiple agents simultaneously.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-superhuman ■ https://superhuman.com

Category: Computing & data (Page 1 of 92)

Adobe releases AI agents for customer experience orchestration

Atlassian to acquire The Browser Company

Neo4j launches Infinigraph

Bloomreach and Snowflake partner

TileDB announces partnership with Databricks to harness multimodal data

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 6.0

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers accessing content by default

Grammarly to acquire Superhuman

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