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Despite a surge in AI experimentation, many agencies remain stuck in pilot projects, struggling to scale the technology. SAP expert offers approach.
The move indicates that the German enterprise software giant is intent on growing its own in-house AI capabilities.
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is also prohibiting customers' agents use to a select few like Nvidia's NemoClaw.
Enterprises are experimenting with AI agents internally first, using smaller testing teams and strict governance before deploying customer-facing applications.
Oracle plans to issue security patches for its ERP, database, and other software on a monthly cycle, rather than quarterly, to respond to the increased pace of AI-enabled software vulnerability discovery. Other software vendors, notably Microsoft, SAP, and Adobe, already release patches on a monthly beat, always on the second Tuesday of each month. Oracle, though, is taking an off-beat approach: It will release the first of its monthly Critical Security Patch Updates (CSPUs) on May 28, the fourth Thursday, and after that, it will release its patches on the third Tuesday of each month — a week after the other vendors — with the next batches arriving on June 16, July 21, and August 18, it said earlier this week. The new CSPUs “provide targeted fixes for critical vulnerabilities in a smaller, more focused format, allowing customers to address high-priority issues without waiting for the next quarterly release,” Oracle said. It will issue a cumulative Critical Patch Update each quarter, so
SAP has agreed to acquire Prior Labs, a Freiburg-based startup developing AI foundation models for tabular and structured business data, for an undisclosed sum. SAP will invest more than €1 billion over four years to scale the company globally, while Prior Labs continues to operate independently. Founded in 2024 and backed by Balderton Capital, Atlantic […]
SAP on Monday announced plans to acquire Dremio, which bills itself as an agentic lakehouse company, for an unspecified price. The move is complicated by similar offerings from existing SAP partners Snowflake and Databricks, but analysts point to key differences with Dremio, especially in its ability to work with data while it sits in the enterprise’s environment, rather than having to live externally. One of SAP’s justifications for the acquisition is that it will theoretically make it easier for IT executives to combine SAP data with non-SAP data. But its strongest rationale involves Dremio’s ability to make complex data more AI-friendly, so that it can more quickly and cost-effectively be made usable. “Most enterprise AI projects fail to deliver value not because of the AI itself, but because the underlying data is fragmented, locked in proprietary formats and stripped of the business context that makes it meaningful,” the SAP announcement said. “The result is a familiar and costly
