Data infrastructure stories
Rising AI deployments are helping drive broader platform use, with most customers now buying several Grafana products and costs falling.
Organisations with fully integrated systems were far more likely to see AI deliver profits, expansion and better forecasts, a global study found.
The move could cut costs and delays for millions of AI-built apps by giving each one an isolated database in about a second.
Wealth managers gain AI access to client holdings, transactions and reporting across banks as Perplexity broadens its regulated data network.
The move comes as the group develops software to make environmental accounts easier to manage, scale and use across organisations.
The appointment comes as Akamai seeks to deepen local ties in Australia and New Zealand, where customers are combining cloud, security and AI spending.
Businesses dropping out of onboarding are driving most of the burden, with a new report putting North American SMB merchant checks at USD $10.4 billion a year.
Poor data at checkout is fuelling cost surprises, missed deliveries and fraud fears that are turning many cross-border shoppers away.
Most firms are still struggling to verify the data behind AI agents, even as more move them from pilots into production.
Hospitality managers can now query live sales, labour and stock data in plain English, cutting delays caused by fragmented reporting systems.
The serverless catalog could ease a bottleneck for large Spark workloads by moving Hive table metadata without copying underlying data.
CyberCatch's continuous compliance tools will be folded into Datavault AI's data platforms if the all-cash deal wins approvals.
Poor data quality is still holding back AI and reporting, even as businesses add specialist roles and restructure their data teams.
The startup aims to spare creators and AI agents from downloading large files before work can begin, after a pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun.
AI agents are driving a sharp rise in demand for the real-time data platform, which added 1000 customers early in 2026 to top 4000.
Property insurers and planners are tapping recurring aerial captures as Nearmap turns 20 years of imagery into AI-driven property data.
The funding doubles the accounting software group's total raised to more than USD $200 million as customers adopt AI tools for finance teams.
The canal-side brownfield scheme could reuse disused land while adding capacity for AI workloads closer to Manchester users.
Foundation teams can now query verified grant data in Claude and ChatGPT, as Impala bets on AI-powered analysis over proposal drafting.
The funding backs Scotland's first AI Growth Zone, with two sites set to create hundreds of jobs and cut reliance on overseas compute capacity.