There is always an abundance of AI technology announcements, here are some interesting ones that can aid the channel.
SentinelOne is acquiring Observo AI, the data streaming platform for AI-native telemetry pipeline management. The deal will serve as an immediate complement to SentinelOne’s AI SIEM and data offerings, which are already amongst the company’s fastest growing solutions.
The announcement comes as security operations teams struggle with costs, complexity and delays created by ever increasing security data volumes, forcing compromises that reduce visibility, limit protection and slow response. These challenges are compounded by data platforms built before the AI-enabled SOC, modern security stack, and today’s increasingly fast and sophisticated attacks.
The buy will help SentinelOne usher in a “new era” of open, intelligent, and autonomous security operations - “reimagining how SOC teams collect, enrich, and act on data across their entire security ecosystem”, says SentinelOne.
Observo delivers an AI-native, real-time telemetry pipeline that ingests, enriches, summarises, and routes data across the enterprise, before it ever reaches a SIEM or data lake. “This empowers customers to dramatically reduce costs, improve detection, and act faster,” we are told.
-The Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market surged 22% year-over-year in 2Q 2025, reaching $2.7 billion, according to Dell’Oro Group. Growth was fuelled by enterprises upgrading to AI-ready branch architectures that unify SD-WAN and Security Service Edge (SSE).
“With SASE revenue climbing 22% Y/Y, enterprises are clearly prioritizing AI-ready branch strategies,” said Mauricio Sanchez, director at Dell’Oro Group.
Cisco and Palo Alto Networks led SD-WAN gains, while Palo Alto and Netskope propelled SSE momentum.
-Atarim, the visual collaboration platform trusted by tens of thousands of creative teams worldwide, has launched InnerCircle, a “market-first” workflow automation solution that embeds an AI-powered creative team directly into digital projects.
InnerCircle features six specialist AI agents for design, UX, SEO, front-end development, accessibility, and project management. Unlike stand-alone AI tools, these agents “live inside projects” and “work like human teammates”, providing strategic reviews, surfacing opportunities, and delivering actionable recommendations that can be tracked and acted upon in existing workflows, it is promised.
“This is the first fully embedded creative AI team solution of its kind on the market, and is poised to revolutionise operations for creative professionals including web design agencies, freelancers and in-house marketing departments with content and product teams,” said Atarim.
-Scintil Photonics, a player in heterogeneous integrated photonics for AI infrastructure, has completed a $58m Series B funding round led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital, with participation from NVIDIA. The round includes new participation from BNP Paribas Développement, alongside existing investors including Supernova Invest, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Innovacom, Bosch Ventures, and Applied Ventures ITIC Innovation Fund (AVITIC).
Scintil’s solutions are purpose-built to meet the high-bandwidth, low-latency, and high-density demands for next-generation AI infrastructure, “delivering the scale, efficiency, and performance required for tomorrow’s most powerful GPU clusters”, said Scintil.
The funding enables Scintil to expand hiring in France and internationally, including the US, accelerate production, and deepen its international presence as it delivers a single-chip DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) light engine, integrating multi-wavelength lasers with silicon photonics, aligned with next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO).
-Europe’s Mistral AI has sealed a €1.7 billion Series C funding round, led by Dutch semiconductor equipment firm ASML with a €1.3 billion investment.
The funding doubles Mistral's valuation to €11.7 billion, but, by way of comparison, OpenAI is worth around $500 billion.
Mistral’s dependence on Silicon Valley infrastructure should be reduced with ASML involvement.
And system integrators requiring European sovereign AI solutions should be tempted too. Capgemini and NTT DATA are already partnering with the firm.
-RingCentral is acquiring CommunityWFM, a cloud-based, AI-first contact centre workforce management software solution.
The acquisition strengthens RingCentral's RingCX contact centre platform with advanced AI-driven workforce management capabilities, streamlining contact centre operations and elevating agent experience, said RingCentral
-TD SYNNEX has announced the expansion of its distribution agreement with Qlik, to offer its full range of AI-driven data integration and analytics solutions in the UK, “empowering partners to accelerate their customers’ AI adoption journeys”, said the distributor.
Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into “clear, actionable insights” for more than 40,000 customers worldwide. Its enterprise-grade cloud analytics portfolio integrates advanced AI/ML, data integration, and visualisation tools to help organisations combine data securely, uncover patterns, and make informed decisions faster.
TD SYNNEX will integrate Qlik’s offerings into Destination AI, its end-to-end enablement programme designed to support channel partners in creating, scaling, and maturing their AI practices across Europe.
The programme covers the full AI technology stack, from AI-enabled ISVs, AI accelerators, and edge devices, to core AI platforms and infrastructure, allowing partners to access a broad ecosystem of solutions and vendors.
“Expanding our reach through TD SYNNEX allows Qlik to deliver industry-leading data and analytics solutions to a vast ecosystem of partners,” said David Zember, senior vice president of worldwide channels and alliances at Qlik.
-Valeo Networks, the US-headquartered managed security service provider, has appointed Jim Gast as director of AI-powered business development.
In this new role, Gast will spearhead the company's efforts to accelerate new customer acquisition through AI- and automation-driven sales and marketing initiatives.
Gast, the former founder of SpliceNet Consulting, brings more than 25 years of experience in managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and data-driven client engagement. Valeo Networks recently acquired SpliceNet.
-BigID, which focuses on data security, privacy, compliance, and AI governance, has announced the availability of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server capability, transforming how organisations report on and interact with their BigID data.
Most organisations rely on dashboards, exports, and specialised teams just to get answers from their data, slowing decisions at a time when enterprises must move faster and adopt AI responsibly.
Without easier access to governed data, organisations struggle to keep pace. BigID's MCP server capability solves this by letting teams query, summarise, and build outputs conversationally through the AI tools they already use, making reporting faster and more accessible.
-Qualcomm Technologies and Google Cloud have expanded their relationship to help automakers deliver enhanced in-car experiences through agentic AI.
As customer expectations for their vehicle experiences are rapidly evolving, the AI technology to meet them is advancing even faster. This presents a significant opportunity for automakers to differentiate themselves in and out of the vehicle.
The new collaboration brings together Google Cloud's Automotive AI Agent, enabled by Google's Gemini models, with Qualcomm Technologies' suite of Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions to help automakers build and deploy multimodal, hybrid edge-to-cloud AI agents.
-Dataminr has unveiled agentic AI capabilities for leading cybersecurity platforms. The enhanced Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk API brings the company's latest groundbreaking AI innovations, including Live Briefs, Intel Agents, and Cyber Anomaly Alerts, to platforms that “cybersecurity teams already know and trust”, said Dataminr.
“This unified, single-pane-of-glass experience cuts through noise, provides context to threat intelligence, and reduces investigation time to enable faster threat detection and response,” users are promised.
Dataminr and leading cybersecurity partners are already leveraging the new capabilities of the enhanced API, beginning with updated versions of Dataminr Pulse for Splunk SIEM and Dataminr Pulse for Splunk SOAR.
Dataminr is also partnering with Palo Alto Networks to introduce Dataminr Pulse for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR v2.0. Planned for release by the fourth quarter of 2025, the app will support multiple versions of XSOAR, including both on-premise and cloud versions.
Other enhanced API integrations with cybersecurity leaders “will soon follow”.
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