Ajo, a former Netflix engineer, launched Strata, an early-beta semantic layer that includes dashboards, subscriptions, and Google Sheets exports and can be driven by agent conversation or MCP. Strata …
Dashboards as code stores a dashboard as a YAML or TSX file in a git repository that is reviewed in a pull request and deployed on merge, rather than as an object clicked together inside a BI tool, ac…
Enterprise AI deployments lack a lifecycle for managing business context, the meaning attached to data such as how finance defines revenue or which customer policy applies, according to an analysis of…
OpenAI recently introduced a Data agent for ChatGPT Work that can investigate company data and create shareable dashboards, and its earlier account of its in-house data agent sets the operating princi…
Developer Akshat Srivastava released KPIAssembler, an open-source Ruby gem that uses an LLM to propose KPI metric SQL recipes while deterministic Ruby code certifies which ones are safe to publish. Th…
AssemblyAI, a Voice AI company processing over 2 million hours of audio daily and serving 600M+ monthly inference calls, is hiring its first Senior GTM Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $180k…
Looker has introduced a native MCP server for its instances, allowing developers to connect Claude Code directly via an HTTP endpoint instead of running a local binary. The server, hosted by Google, r…
Google Cloud announced that BigQuery Graph now supports measures in preview, enabling AI agents to reason across interconnected business data with accurate, governed metrics. The feature lets data mod…
Marmot, a data catalog platform, released a free OpenMetadata plugin that imports an entire OpenMetadata instance in about five minutes, including tables, topics, dashboards, pipelines, ML models, glo…
Google Cloud has published a guide for configuring OpenAI's Codex CLI to work with Looker over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), marking the third iteration of the same integration approach previously…
Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise now integrates Looker's governed semantic layer to provide trusted, deterministic answers to natural-language queries over structured enterprise data, reducing AI hall…
Google Cloud announced the preview of Looker Agentic Workflows, a new capability in Looker that automates metric monitoring and root-cause analysis using intelligent background agents. The feature all…
Google Cloud announced the general availability of BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API, adding to the existing GA of Conversational Analytics in Looker, with Convers…
A review of Cube.dev by Strata, a competing semantic layer builder, finds that Cube has evolved into a full BI solution with workbooks, dashboards, and AI chat interfaces. The open-source version was …
A developer argues that B2B SaaS teams should avoid embedding BI tools or building custom charts from scratch for customer-facing analytics, citing multi-tenancy, branding, and maintenance costs. Inst…
An agentic semantic layer is a metadata layer between AI agents and data warehouses that defines business metrics, enforces access control, and exposes governed query interfaces. Unlike traditional se…
Google Cloud enables administrators to analyze and govern Gemini Enterprise app usage at scale by routing telemetry to BigQuery via log sinks, providing five distinct log tables for deep-dive forensic…
Contextual intelligence — not larger models — is the missing layer that makes AI useful in enterprise settings, according to a CTO who used Anthropic's Claude and an MCP connector to analyze Jira data…
A developer argues that semantic layers have become critical for data trustworthiness, especially with the rise of AI agents querying data. The layer translates physical data tables into governed, exe…
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…