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…
Databricks announced Lakehouse Federation, a feature that connects Genie to external data sources like AWS Glue, Snowflake, and BigQuery without requiring data migration. The tool syncs metadata into …
Neo4j released Neocarta, a Python library and MCP server, to build graph-based semantic layers on GCP BigQuery and Knowledge Catalog for agentic AI applications. The tool maps database metadata and bu…
Mora has launched an AI-native analytics platform that allows users to ask business questions in plain English and receive verified answers with underlying SQL displayed for inspection. The platform c…
Palantir Technologies announced a partnership with Google Cloud on June 4 at AIPCon 10 in Miami, establishing bidirectional data pipelines between Palantir Foundry and Google BigQuery and connecting P…
Data Workers, an open-source autonomous agent swarm for data engineering, bet on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect its AI agents to dozens of tools in the modern data stack, rather than buil…
Cloudflare built Town Lake, a unified data analytics platform, and Skipper, an AI data agent, to solve internal data sprawl caused by processing over a billion events per second across 330+ cities. Th…
A developer used Google's Antigravity 2.0 and Gemini 3.5 to build and deploy a real estate investment advisor from a napkin sketch in under 40 minutes. The project, called the "Napkin Challenge," demo…
At the Apache Iceberg Summit, Google Cloud announced a preview of a serverless Iceberg REST catalog for BigQuery, enabling teams to create, update, and query the same Iceberg tables across engines lik…
At Google I/O ‘26, Google announced new cost-effective frontier models for startups, including Gemini 3.5 Flash for agentic tasks and Gemini Omni for dynamic video content creation. The company also i…