A new paper on arXiv (2609.13648v1) introduces Solar Intelligence, a hybrid retrieval-augmented framework that unifies structured solar analytics, evidence-grounded scientific question answering, and …
A second-part technical walkthrough demonstrates the "grammar of data" approach by building a data engineering digest that ingests RSS feeds, a live Bluesky firehose, raw PyPI downloads, and GitHub Ar…
A developer built a personal health knowledge base that uses retrieval-augmented generation to turn a decade of medical checkup PDFs into a queryable system. The pipeline combines LlamaIndex for orche…
A Python toolkit that pushes a data question through six stages—business understanding, hypothesis generation, SQL planning, validation, executive summary, and recommendations—aims to make AI data ana…
As of 2026, data tools shipping their own MCP server include Bruin, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, and ClickHouse, plus community servers for Postgres, BigQuery, DuckDB, and most databases, according to …
A new benchmark shows that the Qwen3.8 27B model outperforms GPT 5.6 Luna on the DABstep SQL benchmark while costing under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less, according to a blog post by Alex Mona…
Keenable's new SELECT system lets AI agents run read-only DuckDB SQL queries against live web data, combining search, page fetching, and semantic extraction in a single query. The MCP server-based ser…
Keenable has launched Keenable SELECT, an MCP server that lets users query the live web with read-only DuckDB SQL, running one SELECT statement to search over 1,000 pages, filter with exact WHERE clau…
Researchers describe a production analytics system that inverts the interaction model from question-first to analyst-first, using a pluggable domain-expert 'skill' abstraction and an offline knowledge…
DuckDB introduces session windows, a feature that groups time-series data into sessions based on gaps in activity, enabling more flexible analytics for event streams. The announcement positions the ca…
AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the open source analytical database, with DuckDB remaining open source under its independent found…
Qwen 3.8 27B, running locally on a 16GB RAM MacBook Pro, outperformed OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Luna Max on the DABstep benchmark at over 17 times lower cost, with electricity costs under $0.50 versus over $8.…
Qwen 3.8 27B, an open-weight model, outperformed OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Luna Max on the DABstep benchmark while running locally on a laptop, costing under $0.50 in electricity versus over $8 for Luna Max, a…
A study by the coding agent company Droid found that single-agent runs stop early on long-horizon software tasks because they validate work locally without a complete standard of completion. In a test…
Nvidia reported third-fiscal-quarter revenue above expectations and forecast a 70% revenue increase for fiscal 2028, reinforcing its position as the AI boom's bellwether. Separately, AWS acquired Duck…
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…
MotherDuck released a new CLI that lets users and AI agents create organizations, run queries, publish pipelines, and deploy dashboards directly from a terminal, with a single command enabling setup w…
A blogger argues against integrating AI-generated content into Obsidian note-taking vaults, warning that it diminishes the value of personal thoughts and creates noise. The author recommends using AI …
Bruin, an open-source data stack provider, launched a free program for early-stage startups that includes a planning call, a hands-on workshop with a Bruin engineer, and deployment on the startup's ow…
A developer explains the differences between object storage and file storage, advising when to use each. File storage suits POSIX semantics like databases and OS files, while object storage excels at …