MLOps Data Engineer traces unreliable AI agent failures to poor knowledge retrieval, arguing that Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the foundation for reliable agents. The article explains why c…
XAI has made Grok 4.3 available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing AWS customers to use the model as a managed service for enterprise reasoning and agentic workflows. The integration, announced June 17, posi…
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…
Databricks, a data and AI platform valued at $134 billion, is doubling down on its open-source strategy by launching OpenSharing, Omnigent, and DBRX for open LLMs at its Data + AI Summit. The company …
Data scientists are increasingly expected to work with large language models, build generative AI applications, and deploy models to production, expanding their role beyond classical modeling. The shi…
Data pipeline best practices for architecture, ingestion, transformation, and deployment are outlined, emphasizing the importance of defining SLAs and mapping pipelines to business requirements. Moder…
Databricks announced the unification of OLAP and OLTP in its Lakehouse with a new LTAP architecture, combining Lakebase and the Lakehouse under a single governance model. The company also introduced L…
Databricks launched Genie One, an AI agentic coworker, as part of a Genie suite that uses Genie Ontology to provide business data context for accurate answers and actions. The suite includes Genie Age…
Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web. ARD aims to solve the d…
Databricks launched Genie ZeroOps at its Data + AI Summit to automate monitoring, investigation, and remediation of data and AI workload issues. The tool, currently in private preview, uses an AI agen…
GitHub, Google, Microsoft, Hugging Face, GoDaddy, Cisco, Databricks, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake jointly published the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification on June 17, enab…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that enables machines to perform tasks requiring human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, and pattern recognition. AI systems learn…
Data engineering is the foundational backbone of AI systems, requiring new architectural patterns and rigorous data quality to ensure model success in production. Data engineers now co-own reliability…
Google published the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification on June 17, 2026, a web standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools and agents across registries. The specific…
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said at the Data + AI Summit that the proliferation of AI agents from vendors like Microsoft, Snowflake, and AWS is creating a 'quagmire' of lock-in and compatibility issues.…
An AI agent harness is the software infrastructure that wraps around a large language model to enable it to act on tasks, not just respond to prompts. The harness connects the model to tools, memory, …
Databricks and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership to integrate NVIDIA GPUs, the new Vera CPU, and agentic AI tooling into the Databricks platform, aiming to accelerate enterprise AI workloads fr…
Microsoft, in collaboration with Cisco, Databricks, GitHub, GoDaddy, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake, introduced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification,…
Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and st…
Databricks launched the Partner Well-Architected Framework (PWAF) in February, providing AI-ready guidance for partners building on the Databricks platform. The framework covers three core partner arc…