Snowflake announced the general availability of its managed MCP server and previews of external and custom MCP connectors, enabling AI agents to take action across Salesforce, Slack, Jira, and other e…
Apache Polaris, co-created by Snowflake and Dremio, graduated to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in February 2026 after eighteen months of incubation. The project now runs monthl…
Snowflake built an internal long-range planning application called Snowplan using its own platform and Streamlit, replacing a complex Excel model to improve scalability, governance, and collaboration …
Snowflake announced the general availability of ML Jobs in its Data Clean Rooms, enabling data scientists to run distributed Python ML workloads with GPU compute on combined data from multiple organiz…
A data engineer spent 20-30 minutes reconstructing a prompt she had already written, buried in a Slack thread, highlighting the hidden cost of unorganized prompt libraries. The article argues that a c…
GeoSQL, a new agent skill developed by Dekart, introduces a multimodal feedback loop that renders maps to help LLMs validate spatial SQL queries. The tool addresses common failures in AI-generated geo…
Diskover, a data management supplier, helps enterprises find and eliminate redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data, which can waste up to a third of storage capacity. The company's software provid…
Snowflake and Twilio achieved high retention with usage-based pricing by ensuring customers could see costs in real time, while Cursor faced backlash in mid-2025 after rolling out a similar model with…
Code-capable AI agents can bypass tool-level governance by finding alternative execution paths, rendering traditional MCP-based restrictions ineffective. The article argues that organizations must shi…
Dekart released GeoSQL, an open-source skill for Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot that enables data scientists and analysts to work with geospatial data on PostGIS, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Wherobots…
Snowflake CoWork, rebranded from Snowflake Intelligence at Summit 2026, is a governed agent for business users that uses a multi-layer architecture combining LLM reasoning with deterministic SQL execu…
Databricks' Data + AI Summit 2026 introduced LTAP, a unified infrastructure for operational and analytical data built on Lakebase and Unity Catalog, aiming to eliminate CDC pipelines and governance dr…
Snowflake is embedding AI into its cost management tools to help FinOps teams govern AI-driven workloads, addressing the top priority of managing AI spend as 98% of FinOps teams now oversee AI costs. …
Apache Ossie, formerly the Open Semantic Interchange, has entered the Apache Incubator to standardize the meaning of data across organizations. The project, backed by Dremio, Snowflake, and dbt Labs, …
Amazon Web Services announced the public preview of multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick Sight, allowing users to add up to 12 datasets to a single semantic layer and define relationships between them…
Salesforce's acquisition of Informatica positions trusted context as the new currency for enterprise AI, as organizations shift from experiments to production. The combined strategy integrates Tableau…
Hopsworks released version 5.0 on June 30, integrating Claude Code and Codex directly into its ML platform to enable AI agents to write and execute code for feature pipelines, training jobs, and infer…
Snowflake rebranded Snowflake Intelligence as Snowflake CoWork at Summit 2026, positioning it as a personal work agent with new capabilities including Deep Research, Artifacts, MCP connectors, and Use…
A data engineer outlines a practical roadmap for breaking into the field in 2026, emphasizing SQL fluency, Python scripting, cloud cost optimization, and data modeling over outdated tools like Hadoop.…
SurrealDB, a four-year-old UK startup, has built a multi-model database with its own TAPIR-based storage engine to serve as a high-speed context layer for AI agents. The company, founded by brothers T…