Shares of MongoDB surged about 31% on Wednesday after the database software firm said its Atlas cloud service was seeing increasing usage as more customers build AI applications on the platform.

Web Services announced on Wednesday that the pair have signed a strategic collaboration aimed at boosting AI. Read for more.

MariaDB plc is acquiring SkySQL Inc., the company behind an AI-powered, serverless database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform, bringing SkySQL's established DBaaS product back into the MariaDB portfolio.