SAP CEO Says “Almost Right” Is Not Good Enough as Company Launches Autonomous Suite

“Almost right” is not good enough once AI starts making decisions inside a business. That warning came from SAP CEO Christian Klein at the Sapphire 2026 event in Orlando, FL. This is an interesting development because SAP has traditionally focused on enterprise resource planning and back office business systems. The company spent years helping companies…

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Scale AI Joins DOE’s Genesis Mission as Scientific AI Shifts Toward Data Infrastructure

AI infrastructure and software company Scale AI has signed an MOU with the Department of Energy to support the Genesis Mission – the collaborative AI for science initiative bringing together leading national labs and advanced computing environments.  The move adds another commercial AI infrastructure player to an ecosystem that is increasingly centered around integrating AI…

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Why Enterprise AI Keeps Failing, and It’s Not the Model’s Fault

Enterprise leaders have spent two years and hundreds of billions of dollars on AI. The results have been uneven. According to McKinsey’s 2024 global survey, fewer than one in three companies report that their AI investments have generated meaningful, sustained business value. The demos tend to impress, and production tends to disappoint. The diagnosis offered…

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Fivetran Report Reveals What Organizations Can Do to Prepare Better for Agentic AI

At BigDATAwire we have covered how the race to deploy agentic AI is already heavily contested. However, the real question is whether enterprise data infrastructure is ready for it. It appears it is struggling to keep pace. Fivetran’s 2026 Agentic AI Readiness Index found that while 41% of organizations are already using agentic AI in…

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Can OpenAI’s GPT Rosalind Tackle Data Challenges in Life Sciences Research?

Is life sciences research still a biology challenge? With the recent advancements in AI, the real bottleneck is data. Vast amounts of biological data exist across literature, experiments, and proprietary datasets, but turning that into actionable hypotheses remains slow, manual, and error-prone.  What’s missing is not more data – we know there is no shortage…

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SAP Acquires Dremio and Prior Labs, But Can It Solve Enterprise AI’s Core Problem?

SAP is moving to fix a problem that has quietly held back enterprise AI. The company is acquiring, targeting two weak points that most organizations still struggle with: fragmented data and poor AI performance on structured datasets. At its core, the problem is simple. Enterprise AI struggles because data is often not accessible in real…

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What Anaconda’s Outerbounds Deal Says About Where AI Breaks

The recent move by Anaconda to acquire Outerbounds is aimed directly at a gap between experimentation and production, where workflows often fail to run consistently across environments. Instead of replacing existing tools, it introduces a layer that coordinates how workflows are defined, executed, and tracked. The goal is not just governance, but consistency. A way…

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From Images to Usable Data: Google’s Next Leap in Geospatial AI

At its recent Cloud Next event, Google unveiled advanced geospatial AI capabilities that extend how imagery is analyzed and integrated into enterprise workflows. However, that was only a starting point.  The tech giant has announced that in the coming weeks it will keep expanding its Imagery Insights portfolio with the launch of new Aerial and…

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Actian Launches VectorAI DB, Claims 22x Faster Vector Search

Have you ever wondered why the most critical step in AI, retrieving the right data, is still tied to centralized cloud systems? Even as models move closer to users, the systems that supply them with context remain largely cloud dependent.  Data management and analytics software provider Actian is challenging that assumption with VectorAI DB. It…

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