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IBM to acquire Confluent

(www.confluent.io)
443 points abd12 | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 13:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jhickok ◴[08 Dec 25 14:44 UTC] No.46192776[source]▶
“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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kitd ◴[08 Dec 25 15:14 UTC] No.46193141[source]▶
Event-driven AI decision making is the C-suite wet dream. A large % of major orgs run Kafka for their eventing systems.
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jhickok ◴[08 Dec 25 16:00 UTC] No.46193846[source]▶
So the idea is sorta watching the wire of streaming data with autonomous agents or something like that?
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1. kitd ◴[08 Dec 25 16:20 UTC] No.46194152[source]▶
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.
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2. cess11 ◴[09 Dec 25 07:56 UTC] No.46202405[source]▶
Cybersyn for capitalists.