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“With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.” https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-

by jhickok 10mo ago

“With the acquisition of Confluent, IBM will provide the smart data platform for enterprise IT, purpose-built for AI.” https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent-to-create-smart-data-platform-for-enterprise-generative-ai https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent... I don't understand how this acquisition is relevant for AI.

exsomet 10mo ago
Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.
- sceadu 10mo ago
  Always Increasing
oedemis 10mo ago
Streaming, EDA can solve lot of data challenges for enterprise AI use cases
kitd 10mo ago
Event-driven AI decision making is the C-suite wet dream. A large % of major orgs run Kafka for their eventing systems.
- jhickok 10mo ago
  So the idea is sorta watching the wire of streaming data with autonomous agents or something like that?
  - kitd 10mo ago
    Exactly. An agent may be acting on the contents of individual events, but also spotting trends and patterns in events, and intervening where needed/instructed.
    - cess11 10mo ago
      Cybersyn for capitalists.
- brown9-2 10mo ago
  not for much longer
charles_f 10mo ago
They probably have cursor licenses
SoftTalker 10mo ago
As I read the release, it just sounded like "something something something data, something something something AI." AI is just the lastest buzzword. Everyone has it, because they have to. Don't look behind the curtain.
scarmig 10mo ago
You can double your company's value by saying it's an AI company. Easiest, simplest way to create value.
Oras 10mo ago
AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group /s
egorfine 10mo ago
Anything today has to contain the word "AI" otherwise it simply won't be considered.
1970-01-01 10mo ago
It's depressing how IBM always uses the same language with every single acquisition. They don't care about the actual tech, only the patents and the ability to resell it.
burnte 10mo ago
Everything in IT is AI now. We should just change the industry initialism to AIT.

by jhickok 10mo ago

exsomet 10mo ago

Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.

sceadu 10mo ago
Always Increasing

oedemis 10mo ago

Streaming, EDA can solve lot of data challenges for enterprise AI use cases

kitd 10mo ago

Event-driven AI decision making is the C-suite wet dream. A large % of major orgs run Kafka for their eventing systems.

jhickok 10mo ago
So the idea is sorta watching the wire of streaming data with autonomous agents or something like that?
- kitd 10mo ago
  Exactly. An agent may be acting on the contents of individual events, but also spotting trends and patterns in events, and intervening where needed/instructed.
  - cess11 10mo ago
    Cybersyn for capitalists.
brown9-2 10mo ago
not for much longer

charles_f 10mo ago

They probably have cursor licenses

SoftTalker 10mo ago

As I read the release, it just sounded like "something something something data, something something something AI." AI is just the lastest buzzword. Everyone has it, because they have to. Don't look behind the curtain.

scarmig 10mo ago

You can double your company's value by saying it's an AI company. Easiest, simplest way to create value.

Oras 10mo ago

AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group /s

egorfine 10mo ago

Anything today has to contain the word "AI" otherwise it simply won't be considered.

1970-01-01 10mo ago

It's depressing how IBM always uses the same language with every single acquisition. They don't care about the actual tech, only the patents and the ability to resell it.

burnte 10mo ago

Everything in IT is AI now. We should just change the industry initialism to AIT.