Google Cloud launched its Lakehouse runtime catalog, now generally available with support for the Apache Iceberg REST Catalog specification, built on the serverless Spanner database to provide atomic …
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Basin, an end-to-end analytics platform built on Apache Iceberg, now generally available on its Developer Platform with data pipelines, a data catalog, and the R2 SQL en…
Amazon Web Services announced that Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL can now directly query Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet data in a data lake, eliminating extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines that …
Komprise released a Universal File MCP interface for its data management platform that uses progressive loading — starting with metadata and loading full files only when an AI needs them — to cut toke…
ClickHouse announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft at The European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona on September 29, 2026, launching a native ClickHouse workload for…
Tessl AI Limited will host a London meetup on 29 September titled "AI ROI: Why the Agent Isn't the Answer," featuring two talks arguing that AI agent returns are limited by context and measurement rat…
A developer argues that conventional RAG architectures create a dangerous chasm between the data lakehouse and the AI stack, forcing teams to duplicate data and reimplement security in a separate vect…
TypeSafe AI released Jev in September 2026, a classification model that returns a choice, score, or calibrated yes/no probability instead of generating chat text, and open-source projects quickly repl…
A developer built a single MCP server for Apache Iceberg tables that reads from seven different Iceberg REST catalogs, switching catalogs via environment variables while keeping the server code unchan…
Google announced the preview of cross-cloud caching for its borderless Lakehouse, a feature that transparently accelerates cross-cloud queries in BigQuery by caching frequently accessed data locally i…
Snowflake is integrating its AI Data Cloud with STACKIT, the sovereign cloud operated by Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of Schwarz Group, to give German regulated-market customers EU-base…
Snowflake announced the general availability of Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming, allowing data to be streamed directly from applications, devices and services into Snowflake tables or Snowflak…
Snowflake announced the public preview of Intent-Driven Governance, an AI-native workflow in Snowflake CoCo that lets users describe in plain English what sensitive data to protect, then automatically…
A developer introduced a serverless multimodal vector search architecture that turns Google Drive into an AI-powered lakehouse engine using Apache Iceberg, Google Apps Script, and BigQuery. The system…
Developer nhobin219 released litelink, a local-first, embedded Python library for capturing WebSocket streams directly into Apache Iceberg tables, designed for small VMs (2 vCPU, 8GB RAM) to avoid man…
Dremio engineer Jason Hughes is leading an effort to standardize the 'harness' layer of AI agents—the runtime that manages context, tool calls, and permissions—to prevent vendor lock-in. He authored t…
Hotdata has open-sourced and donated its implementation of DuckLake for Apache DataFusion to the Apache DataFusion Contrib organization, enabling DataFusion to use DuckLake's lakehouse format with rel…
More than 80% of enterprise data is unstructured and 99% is dark to AI, prompting Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Super Micro Computer Inc. and MinIO Inc. to target the data pipeline bottleneck with lake…
Cloudera launched Anywhere Cloud, a hybrid data and AI platform that lets enterprises run AI workloads across public cloud, sovereign environments, and on-premises data centers without moving data. Th…
Cloudera Inc. launched Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, a platform designed to give AI agents secure, governed access to sensitive data across public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and edge environments…