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into the field in 2026, emphasizing SQL fluency, Python scripting, cloud cost optimization, and data modeling over outdated tools like Hadoop.…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…
Vanna AI has released Vanna 2.0, an open-source framework for building text-to-SQL assistants. The framework supports native connections to Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, and includes pre…
VulcanForms appointed Matthew Rose as executive vice president of Mission Systems to expand its metal manufacturing services for government, defense, and national-security customers. Rose, formerly of…
SAP is limiting hiring and travel spending to fund its AI transformation, shaking up executive ranks, and pushing customers toward cloud migrations with AI incentives. The company unveiled its "Autono…
Databricks has reached a $188 billion valuation, driven by its pivot to a Data Intelligence Platform that integrates MosaicML and Lakehouse architecture to enable secure, custom AI model training on p…
Snowflake launches Cortex AI Guardrails, a runtime security layer in Horizon Catalog that blocks indirect prompt injection attacks targeting enterprise AI agents. The feature intercepts and neutralize…
Snowflake SVP of Engineering Vivek Raghunathan presented a five-stage framework at Snowflake Summit for transitioning AI-assisted engineering from chaotic experimentation to a repeatable, org-wide sys…
Snowflake achieved HDS Certification Version 2 in France, enabling healthcare organizations to use the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for health data workloads while meeting strict regulatory requirements. T…
A new natural language-to-SQL agent using a semantic-layer-mediated approach achieved 94.15% execution accuracy on the Spider2-snow benchmark, ranking third on the official leaderboard. The system dec…
Researchers introduced a semantic-layer-mediated NL2SQL agent that decouples semantic intent from physical SQL execution, achieving 94.15% execution accuracy on the Spider2-snow benchmark and ranking …