Plaid migrated its Amazon Aurora MySQL fleet to the distributed SQL database TiDB after an estimate put a major-version upgrade at six engineering months and tens of minutes of downtime, and its first…
TiDB Cloud Starter connects to Vercel serverless and edge functions over HTTPS via the TiDB Cloud serverless driver, eliminating the TCP connection pool that breaks traditional MySQL and Postgres data…
LangChain's 2026 State of Agent Engineering report found 57% of organizations now have AI agents running in production, up from 51% the prior year, with output quality cited by 32% of respondents as t…
AI coding assistants trained overwhelmingly on single-node MySQL and PostgreSQL code produce AI-generated database code that encodes single-node assumptions, creating silent correctness bugs when run …
PingCAP's TiDB Cloud now supports Prisma ORM through the @tidbcloud/prisma-adapter, enabling serverless functions and edge runtimes to query TiDB over HTTPS instead of TCP, as detailed in a setup guid…
On July 24, Jensen Huang made his first post on X, a policy letter signed by 25 companies, doubling to 50 within a day, asking Washington not to restrict open weight AI models, with signatories includ…
TiDB SCaiLE 2026, a single-day conference hosted by PingCAP at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on October 15, 2026, will feature two tracks—AI-Native: Infinite Agents and Enterprise: …
PingCAP, the company behind the open source TiDB database, argues that open source data layers will win the AI future because AI makes application code cheap to rewrite while durable state remains cos…
A single TiDB cluster raised analytical agent confidence from 74% to roughly 93%, according to Bernard Kavanagh, Solutions Architect at TiDB, speaking at TiDB SCaiLE Europe 2026. An EV-charging platfo…
PingCAP argues that production AI agents need a database capable of controlled writes, deduplication, staleness management, and cross-type queries, not just read-optimized retrieval. The company says …
Novita Artifact Hosting now lets developers deploy AI-generated applications with a single SDK call, and adding a TiDB Cloud database requires only one parameter. The platform, which turns an AI codin…
PingCAP argues that Databricks' newly introduced LTAP architecture is not a breakthrough but a validation of the HTAP architecture that TiDB has provided for years. The company states that AI agents, …
PingCAP CEO Siddon Tang argues that choosing a database for scale is a ten-year decision that caps a company's growth potential, and that as AI agents become primary users, infrastructure choices refl…
TiDB completed a 45-day white-box security assessment by NCC Group, which found zero critical, high, or medium severity issues across 20 repositories. All eight findings were rated Low, covering defau…
A fintech engineering team built an AI agent platform using five separate data systems, leading to consistency bugs that caused a double-spend under load. The author argues that fintech teams operatio…
A PingCAP VP stated that while coding is being solved by LLMs, shipping complex enterprise software remains difficult due to permissions, memory, collaboration, and security. The company has shifted t…
PingCAP's research team introduced TINE, a system that binds every AI agent iteration to a Git commit, a TiDB branch, and a sandbox runtime to solve schema drift, irreproducible state, and rollback ga…
In early March 2026, a customer request for persistent agent memory led PingCAP to rapidly prototype and ship mem9, a product born from workflow pain rather than a strategic roadmap. The company learn…
Kimi K2.6, the open-weight trillion-parameter model from Moonshot AI, now uses TiDB Cloud to power its agent website builder, supporting millions of agent-created tenants without per-tenant database i…
A context platform is emerging as the standard data infrastructure pattern for production AI agents, unifying vector search, structured queries, and real-time analytics in a single operational data la…