Vanna AI has released Vanna 2.0, an open-source framework for building text-to-SQL assistants. The framework supports native connections to Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, and includes pre…
Google has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the third consecutive year, following its Google Cloud Next 2026 event. The reco…
A new natural language-to-SQL agent using a semantic-layer-mediated approach achieved 94.15% execution accuracy on the Spider2-snow benchmark, ranking third on the official leaderboard. The system dec…
Researchers introduced a semantic-layer-mediated NL2SQL agent that decouples semantic intent from physical SQL execution, achieving 94.15% execution accuracy on the Spider2-snow benchmark and ranking …
Google's Antigravity 2.0 platform enables developers to build multi-agent systems that orchestrate complex workflows by integrating with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Cloud Data Services. Th…
Google launched Conversational Analytics in BigQuery to general availability, enabling natural language queries, multi-step analyses, and visual reports directly on governed data. The feature uses Gem…
Google Cloud announced the preview of BigQuery's AI.AGG() function, which enables natural-language analysis of unstructured and multimodal data across millions of rows using a single line of SQL. The …
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Managed Python User-Defined Functions (UDFs), enabling data practitioners to run custom Python code directly within BigQuery using standard …
Google launched a Starter Tier for Google AI Studio that lets developers deploy prototypes without a payment method or billing account. The tier provisions a fully managed project with Cloud Run, Clou…
Google has released the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral specification for representing knowledge as plain markdown files with YAML frontmatter, along with tooling including a reference a…
Google Cloud has launched BigQuery Conversational Analytics, a feature that uses Gemini to allow users to query massive datasets with natural language. The tool includes governance features like Datap…
Neo4j announced dedicated field engineers for startups and released a new edition of its weekly newsletter covering knowledge graph maintenance, a GraphRAG semantic layer built from BigQuery and GCP K…
Evidence launches Business Intelligence as Code, a platform that lets users build dashboards and reports using SQL and markdown with version control, AI development tools, and enterprise-grade securit…
Confluent Cloud launched a dbt adapter that lets data engineers manage streaming SQL transformations with the same CI/CD, testing, and documentation workflows used for batch data. The adapter, built o…
Google Cloud launched the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.1, an open specification for packaging organizational knowledge as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, aiming to improve knowledge portabilit…
Google Cloud Next 2026 shifted focus from model size to agentic control planes, with Google repositioning Gemini as a connective layer and launching the Agentic Data Cloud. Gartner predicts 40% of ent…
Google Cloud released an open standard called the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) on June 12, 2026, to standardize how AI agents access and update contextual knowledge. The vendor-neutral format aims to s…
Google announced new data agents and tools for its Agentic Data Cloud, including Conversational Analytics across BigQuery, Lakehouse, AlloyDB, Spanner, and Cloud SQL, as well as Data Engineering, Data…
WALT Labs joined Anthropic's Claude Partner Network as a Registered Partner after completing the learning path and earning the Claude Certified Associate certification, enabling the company to help or…
A data engineer created Ghost Skills, a collection of methodology instructions for AI coding agents, to address the gap between model capability and the contextual knowledge needed for real-world data…