DevRel newsletter — September 2026
Elastic released jina-ocr-v1, a 3.4-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts document parsing model that activates only 570 million parameters at inference and is now available through the Elastic Inferen…
Elastic released jina-ocr-v1, a 3.4-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts document parsing model that activates only 570 million parameters at inference and is now available through the Elastic Inferen…
Elastic built an AI agent harness that automatically identifies and implements performance optimizations in the Elasticsearch codebase, with the company reporting it has already uncovered wins includi…
Elastic joined Australia's first Parliamentary AI Industry Showcase in Canberra as a Founding Partner, where the company argued that data quality, not model size, is the biggest constraint on AI perfo…
Elastic announced the general availability of cross-project search (CPS) for Elastic Cloud Serverless, letting organizations run a single query across multiple serverless projects without moving data.…
Elastic NV announced the Elastic{ON} 2026 tour, with events in Mumbai, New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, London, Washington D.C., Singapore, and a digital finale from September 2025 through March 20…
Enterprise AI bills are tripling even as token prices fell 75% over the past year because agentic workloads consume five to 30 times more tokens than chatbot tasks, according to an analysis by an unna…
Elastic and Tencent Cloud announced an expanded strategic partnership in Shenzhen in August 2026, launching Tencent Cloud Elasticsearch Service (ES) Enterprise Edition to power AI-era search. The coll…
AI is sharpening social engineering attacks, with 86% of phishing attacks analyzed in 2026 being AI-driven and people up to 40% more likely to fall for text or phone scams than email, according to Ver…
Elastic will host its first Elastic{ON} event in Mumbai on 30 September 2026, focusing on search, full-stack observability, and security as the foundation for agentic AI. The event comes as India's re…
A survey of more than 850 IT and cybersecurity professionals in Australia and New Zealand reveals that only 14% of organizations in both countries could respond to an AI-automated attack at machine sp…
Elasticsearch is introducing Columnar Mode in version 9.5, a new index mode that stores data once in columnar form to reduce storage footprints and speed up analytical queries for workloads like logs,…
Elastic reports that AI-enabled cyber attacks are outpacing state and local government defenses, with phishing campaigns achieving click-through rates 4.5 times higher than traditional methods and lat…
Organizations using the Elasticsearch Platform see $13.4 million in annual benefits and a 517% ROI, according to an IDC study commissioned by Elastic. The study of 11 large enterprises found a 40% red…
Elastic's internal AI applications returned $2.5 million in operational time over six months, with a conversational support assistant resolving 30% of support interactions without a ticket. According …
BNY's new article, 'Re-architecting Treasury Management: From Systems of Record to AI Powered Decision Intelligence,' argues that treasury teams face decision latency due to fragmented data across ERP…
Only 12% of companies are always confident in the factual accuracy of answers from their primary discovery tools, according to IDC research cited in an Elastic webinar, and over 50% of companies are s…
McKinsey's State of AI trust in 2026 report finds that only about 30% of organizations have reached higher levels of maturity across AI strategy, governance, and agentic AI controls, as financial serv…
Elastic N.V. argues that enterprises deploying AI will fail to realize ROI unless they consolidate onto a unified data platform, citing IDC projections that global AI infrastructure spending will exce…
Elastic N.V. announced the general availability of Elastic 9.5, the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform, introducing Columnar Mode as a technical preview, VectorDB index mode with auto-calibr…
A recent IDC Spotlight report based on a survey of 685 public sector respondents found that 72% describe scaling AI from pilot to production as 'very' or 'somewhat' difficult. The report, sponsored by…