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jhickoktoday at 2:44 PM8 repliesview on HN

“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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exsomettoday at 3:00 PM

Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.

kitdtoday at 3:14 PM

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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SoftTalkertoday at 3:56 PM

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.

egorfinetoday at 5:28 PM

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

scarmigtoday at 4:24 PM

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

charles_ftoday at 3:35 PM

They probably have cursor licenses

oedemistoday at 3:14 PM

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

Orastoday at 4:32 PM

AI Agent for Kafka Consumer group

/s