Cloud data management platform Informatica has unveiled a broad strategy for agentic AI. AI Agent Engineering is a new offering allowing users to build and deploy multi-agent AI systems with no-code orchestration across a range of eco-systems, from AWS and Microsoft to Databricks and Snowflake. Also launched: a suite of CLAIRE agents to manage complex data ops including ingestion and quality control.
Publicis Groupe has acquired Capitiv8, the influencer platform that boasts 15 million creators, including 95% of all influencers with over 5,000 followers. This follows last year’s acquisition of Influential, itself a huge influencer network which works alongside Publicis-owned connected identity platform Epsilon. Adding Captiv8 gives Publicis the biggest influencer network in the world.
We’ll believe it when we see it, but a new report from LUMA suggests that creators might evolve from influencers to paid media — and, surprise, it’s AI doing the nudging. AI offers improved creative review, probabilistic comparisons of outcome against traditional ad channels — and creators themselves are dipping into predictive outcome modeling. Creators are also now tending to span across a number of platforms rather than sticking with their niche.
It barely feels like news when industry giants add AI features, since that’s what they’re expected to do. But lots of people use their products, so their announcements are probably of higher interest than most. With that in mind, let’s note that Adobe has just announced general availability of agents for audience creation, journey orchestration, experimentation, journey insights, website optimization and agent support.