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Demystifying AI: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know

Artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining life as we know it.  From virtual agents that can predict consumer needs and preferences to offering hyper-personalized recommendations that adapt in real-time, everyone is tal Read more…

Will GenAI Modernize Data Engineering?

Generative AI is being asked to do many things, from replacing call center workers to enhancing developer productivity. There’s also an intriguing possibility that it will supercharge data engineering, if a new survey Read more…

Three Ways Data Products Empower Internal Users

Many companies want to give their employees access to data, but are overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the data, as well as security and privacy risks inherent with opening it up. One powerful way that companies a Read more…

Memgraph Bolsters AI Development with GraphRAG Support

The best GenAI applications combine the freshest, most pertinent customer data with top language models, but getting that data into the model’s context window isn’t easy. That’s where the new GraphRAG capability an Read more…

News In Brief

Excessive Cloud Spending In the Spotlight

Are you spending too much in the cloud? Many business leaders feel they are overpaying as they move their data and apps into the cloud. According to a pair of studies released this week, excessive data egress fees are pa Read more…

AI Making Data Analyst Job More Strategic, Alteryx Says

AI isn’t replacing the position of the data analyst, as some had feared, but it is making the data analyst’s job more strategic, according to new research from Alteryx. Instead of being looked upon as mere data mu Read more…

Snowflake Unleashes AI Agents to Unlock Enterprise Data

Snowflake today announced the public preview of Cortex Agents, a new class of AI agents that can perform a range of business tasks using structured and unstructured data. The company also announced that, thanks to Anthro Read more…

Data Security and Access Obstacles Grow, But There Is Hope, Immuta Finds

Privacy and compliance concerns are hurting organizations’ ability to provide timely access to data for their internal users, putting initiatives at risk. That’s the topline conclusion from Immuta and its 2025 State Read more…

AI Agent Claims 80% Reduction in Time to Complete Data Tasks

A new AI agent developed by West Monroe can reduce the time it takes to complete manual data tasks, such as conversion and migration, by up to 80%, the company claims. Intellio Hopper, as the tool is called, is a gene Read more…

This Just In

Dataminr and Esri Expand Partnership to Transform Location Intelligence with Real-Time Event Detection

Feb 25, 2025 |

NEW YORK and REDLANDS, Calif., Feb. 25, 2025 — Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI companies, and Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, today announced an expanded strategic partnership aimed at driving innovation, enhancing customer value, and accelerating growth across key markets. Read more…

Aerospike Unveils Database 8 with Distributed ACID Transactions for OLTP

Feb 6, 2025 |

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 6, 2025 — Aerospike, Inc. has unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. Version 8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Read more…

MindBridge Partners with Databricks to Deliver Enhanced Financial Insights

Feb 4, 2025 |

OTTAWA, Ontario, Feb. 4, 2025 — MindBridge is proud to announce an official partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company. This collaboration enables customers to unlock the full potential of their financial data by applying MindBridge’s advanced financial risk analytics to the data stored in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Read more…

UMD Study: AI Jobs Rise While Overall US Hiring Declines

Feb 4, 2025 |

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 4, 2025 — Since ChatGPT’s late-2022 launch, AI job postings in the United States “have ramped up dramatically, from 29,509 in Q4 2022 to 49,577 in Q4 2024, an uptick of 68 percent,” Read more…

DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

Jan 30, 2025 |

SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 30, 2025 — During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company. Read more…

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