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jhickok | 2 months 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...

I don't understand how this acquisition is relevant for AI.

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exsomet|2 months ago

Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.

sceadu|2 months ago

Always Increasing

kitd|2 months ago

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

jhickok|2 months ago

So the idea is sorta watching the wire of streaming data with autonomous agents or something like that?

brown9-2|2 months ago

not for much longer

SoftTalker|2 months 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.

egorfine|2 months ago

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

oedemis|2 months ago

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

1970-01-01|2 months 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.

scarmig|2 months ago

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

burnte|2 months ago

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

charles_f|2 months ago

They probably have cursor licenses

Oras|2 months ago

AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group

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