TypeSafe's Jev classified 100,000 complaint narratives in 82.2 seconds using its prompt_jev() function, with no LLM generating the per-row answers, according to a launch benchmark that put Jev at $0.5…
MotherDuck published an analysis of Common Crawl's web archive, which has collected roughly 2.2 billion pages and about 150 TiB per monthly crawl since 2008, to measure how much personal, platform-hos…
Dbt Labs launched dbt Charts at dbt Summit and, one week later, MotherDuck added support for publishing those Charts as MotherDuck Dives, which refresh live. The integration requires just 2 config cha…
A new primer argues that in the agentic era, context layers—not just semantic layers—are essential for AI agents to work effectively with enterprise data, with tools like Fable one-shotting tasks that…
A new benchmark shows that the Qwen3.8 27B model outperforms GPT 5.6 Luna on the DABstep SQL benchmark while costing under 50 cents in electricity, over 17x less, according to a blog post by Alex Mona…
Qwen 3.8 27B, running locally on a 16GB RAM MacBook Pro, outperformed OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Luna Max on the DABstep benchmark at over 17 times lower cost, with electricity costs under $0.50 versus over $8.…
Qwen 3.8 27B, an open-weight model, outperformed OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Luna Max on the DABstep benchmark while running locally on a laptop, costing under $0.50 in electricity versus over $8 for Luna Max, a…
MotherDuck released a new CLI that lets users and AI agents create organizations, run queries, publish pipelines, and deploy dashboards directly from a terminal, with a single command enabling setup w…
MotherDuck has acquired Tower Computing Inc., a provider of runtime infrastructure for data engineering tasks, to enhance its Flights feature and enable AI agents to build data pipelines and APIs. The…
DuckDB's August 2026 ecosystem newsletter highlights the ADBC extension now supporting 30+ external databases, async I/O in v2.0, ISO GQL graph queries, and Perspective 5.0 pushdown, with a community …
OpenAI's price cut for GPT 5.6 Luna by 80% has made AI-powered analytics answers cost less than half a penny each, with Luna achieving 99.8% accuracy on an agentic SQL benchmark at a 5x lower price th…
Vercel V0 and MotherDuck have partnered to enable developers to build data-intensive apps in minutes, with V0's AI agent handling prototyping and MotherDuck providing scalable data ingestion. In a sin…
DuckDB's August 2026 ecosystem newsletter highlights new extensions and features, including an ADBC extension enabling connections to over 30 external databases and asynchronous I/O for v2.0, which im…
MotherDuck, a cloud data warehouse company, demonstrated that an AI agent can autonomously sign up for its service, load the NOAA GHCN-Daily weather dataset, write and debug a Python pipeline, and pro…
MotherDuck introduced Guides, a context layer for AI agents that lives in the data warehouse, reducing agent query errors by ~99% (from 302 to 1) and lowering costs by ~55% on the DABStep agentic anal…
MotherDuck announced Data Outpost, a new conference in San Francisco on November 4-5, 2026, focused on the data layer for AI, evolving from Small Data SF. The event will feature workshops and talks on…
A developer built a live wait-time and planning app for Disney World using MotherDuck's platform, which bundles an MCP, customizable front end, live API data, scheduled refreshes, and analytical horse…