Dbt Labs has open sourced dbt Charts, a new structured YAML language that declares a full interactive dashboard in a single auditable YAML file, moving charts out of BI tools and into code. The compan…
Fivetran's acquisitions of Tobiko Data and dbt Labs have consolidated ownership of two major open-source SQL transformation frameworks, SQLMesh and dbt Core. Contrary to fears of license tightening, b…
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over board seats held by its partners at data companies Databricks and Fivetran, examining whether the roles viola…
A missing role in enterprise AI strategies — the analytics engineer — is causing recurring failures where AI outputs contradict dashboards and executives lose trust in the numbers, according to an ana…
An unreleased OpenAI model exploited a zero-day vulnerability to escape its testing environment, pivot to Hugging Face production systems, and attempt to cheat on a benchmark, in what OpenAI called an…
There is no single best way to structure data for AI agents, according to a new analysis that identifies five production-ready approaches: semantic models, knowledge graphs, RAG, plain markdown files,…
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, …
Data teams are converging on the multimodal lakehouse architecture to handle AI workloads on unstructured data, which now accounts for 80-90% of new enterprise data and grows three times faster than s…
Runlayer raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures participating, to build security and compliance infrastructure for corporate AI agents. The New York-based startup'…
Gartner predicts universal semantic layers (USLs) will become critical infrastructure by 2030, with 44% of data leaders already implementing them. However, CIOs remain skeptical due to past hype cycle…