
How AI and ML Will Change Financial Planning
The financial planning process is on the verge of a transformative shift, driven by the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Traditional financial forecasting simplified the process of looking at Read more…
Snowflake Bolsters Support for Apache Iceberg Tables
Snowflake today introduced a series of enhancements for Apache Iceberg, the open table format that it added to its data platform last year. The big announcement is that Snowflake customers can treat Iceberg tables just l Read more…
Can We Learn to Live with AI Hallucinations?
The generative AI revolution is remaking businesses’ relationship with computers and customers. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI, and trillions are at st Read more…
Immuta Updates Data Marketplace With New Features for Automation and Control
As organizations strive to become more data-driven in their decision making they continue to struggle with an overwhelming influx of data access requests. The surge of AI agents, relentless growth in data volume, and inc Read more…
CloudBolt Aims to Close the Kubernetes FinOps Loop with StormForge Acquisition
Modern cloud environments rely heavily on containerized workloads as the cornerstone of application deployment and scalability. While containers offer portability and efficiency, they are not immune to vulnerabilities in Read more…
GenAI Investments Accelerating, IDC and Gartner Say
The pace of investment and innovation in generative AI is accelerating as companies spend hundreds of billions to generate tens of trillions in business returns over the next decade, IDC and Gartner said in separate repo Read more…
AI Today and Tomorrow Series #3: HPC and AI—When Worlds Converge/Collide
Welcome to the third entry in this series on AI. The first one was an introduction and series overview and the next discussed the aspirational goal of artificial general intelligence, AGI. Now it’s time to zero in on a Read more…
Databricks Broadens Data Integration Capabilities with Launch of Lakeflow Connect
Databricks has announced the general availability of Lakeflow Connect, a tool that enables no-code data ingestion from SaaS applications and databases. As part of the launch, the company has introduced connectors fo Read more…
Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Blockchain and the Future of Personal Data in the Age of Agentic AI
Data is the fuel for AI, and the more personal the data, the better. But people increasingly are disinclined to share their data without some reciprocal consideration, putting a potential lid on AI growth just as the age Read more…
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Promises Return to Engineering Innovation in Major Address
In his first major address since taking over the CEO job at Intel, Lip-Bu Tan explained why he took the job, recounted the challenge that Intel faces, and detailed how he’ll work to turn the chipmaker around. Tan co Read more…
Thriving in the Second Wave of Big Data Modernization
The idea of managing data at tremendous scale is hardly new. Most businesses embraced the concept of “big data” and associated technologies (like data lakes) at least a decade ago. However, the adoption of modern AI Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for March 2025
It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…
Global Leaders to Gather for the Inaugural International Data Science and AI Leadership Summit in Paris
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the way industries operate and societies evolve, strong leadership has never been more crucial. Beyond developing advanced technologies, the real challenge lies in gui Read more…
Will Model Context Protocol (MCP) Become the Standard for Agentic AI?
We’re on the cusp of a new AI-powered world, where agents automatically execute a range of tasks previously handled by humans. But how will we connect all of these agents with data and coordinate with AI tools? That’ Read more…
Prophecy 4.0 Offers Fully Governed Self-Service Data Prep for Databricks SQL
In 2024, data integration company Prophecy unveiled its AI Copilot for Databricks, marking a significant step forward in data transformation. Leveraging the power of GenAI, the tool enabled business users and analysts to Read more…
The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) Has Cleared the Tower
Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The goal, of course, w Read more…
What Benchmarks Say About Agentic AI’s Coding Potential
Last week’s GTC 2025 show may have been agentic AI’s breakout moment, but the core technology behind it has been quietly improving behind the scenes. That progress is being tracked across a series of coding benchmark Read more…
Grafana’s Annual Report Uncovers Key Insights into the Future of Observability
The architecture of modern systems has reached a tipping point where observability is no longer optional, it's become existential. With advancements in Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry reshaping operational strategies, organ Read more…
New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Released by Timescale
Real-time analytics pushes the limits on data that distributed hardware and software can deliver. To adequately measure the relative performance of real-time analytics databases, Timescale today released a real-time anal Read more…
Tapping into the Unstructured Data Goldmine for Enterprise in 2025
Companies are overwhelmed by data. A majority of organizations (64%) manage at least one petabyte (PB) of data, while 41% surpassing that with at least 500 PBs of data, according to the AI & Information Management Re Read more…
Apache Pinot Co-Author Joins the Big Data Debrief
You might know LinkedIn as the place where Apache Kafka was created to standardize streaming data. But there are other compelling open source projects to come out of the company, including Apache Pinot, which was designe Read more…
Accelerating Agentic AI Productivity with Enterprise Frameworks
As the AI wave starts to crest, companies are looking for ways to help accelerate their AI projects before the wave washes over them. One of the ways companies can get ahead is by adopting tools and frameworks upon which Read more…
Defending Against AI-Powered Deepfakes
Thanks to AI’s nonstop improvement, it’s becoming difficult for humans to spot deepfakes in a reliable manner. This poses a serious problem for any form of authentication that relies on images of the trusted individu Read more…