Observo AI Raises $15M for Agentic AI-Powered Data Pipelines
AI models require vast amounts of training data, and once deployed, these models fuel an ever-growing wave of operational telemetry including logs, metrics, traces, and more. This overload has pushed traditional observab Read more…
Navigating DataOps: ISG Buyers Guides to the Best Solutions
The world of data management is more complex than ever. Information Services Group (ISG), a global technology research and advisory firm, predicts more than half of enterprises will embrace DataOps by 2026. However, w Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for January 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…
DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World
The AI world has been taken by a storm. China's new open-source reasoning model, the DeepSeek R1, has sparked concerns that advances in AI by Chinese firms could threaten the revenue prospects of tech giants in the West Read more…
Data Quality Got You Down? Thank GenAI
Chief data officers have a lot of challenges on their plates these days: data integration, security, privacy, compliance, cloud migrations, and IT staff and resources, to name a few. But a whopping 68% of CDOs in a recen Read more…
PuppyGraph Brings Graph Analytics to the Lakehouse
A startup called PuppyGraph is turning heads in the big data world with a novel concept: Marrying the data storage efficiency of the data lakehouse with the analytic capabilities of a graph database. The result is a dist Read more…
OpenAI Launches Operator to Help Users Automate Browser Tasks
OpenAI has released a research preview for a new AI agent that can take control of your computer’s browser and perform actions on your behalf. The tool can interact with web pages by typing, clicking, and scrolling. Read more…
Future of AI and Open Source in Data Science: Insights from Anaconda’s Latest Report
AI and open source have emerged as essential tools for businesses seeking to enhance efficiency and drive innovation. But, how do two transformative forces intersect and impact the data science community? They surely off Read more…
Real-Time Analytics to Conquer the AdTech Data Deluge
AdTech platforms are swimming in data. Managing it isn't cheap. Traditional in-memory databases that offer millisecond latency are great for real-time bidding, but they become insanely expensive when you scale up to bill Read more…
Solidigm Celebrates World’s Largest SSD with ‘122 Day’
Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world's largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack. In honor of that massive feat of data, the Read more…
Collibra Bolsters Position in Fast-Moving AI Governance Field
As the market for AI governance begins to heat up and take shape, vendors have started to jostle for position. One of those vendors is Collibra, which is eager to build on its success in data governance and stake out a c Read more…
Plotly Bolsters Popular Python Data Viz Tool with GenAI
Plotly Dash is a Python-based data application framework and visualization tool that’s widely used by data scientists who prefer a code-first experience. To help lower the barrier to entry, the company behind Plotly Da Read more…
Trump Rescinds Biden’s AI Order, Announces $500B Investment in AI Infrastructure
President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day in office, including one that rescinded his predecessor’s order addressing AI risk. The new president indicated he viewed the old order as Read more…
2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: AI in the Spotlight
Companies had a mixed relationship with cybersecurity before generative AI landed on the scene in 2022. Now that companies are quickly adopting GenAI across their organizations, they’re finding themselves playing a gam Read more…
Onehouse Manages Lakehouse Workloads Across Clouds, Query Engines, and Table Formats
Organizations investing in data lakehouses in 2025 may want to check out a new offering unveiled by Onehouse this week. The company founded by the creator of the Apache Hudi table format launched Onehouse Compute Runtime Read more…
The Coming Catastrophic Failure Of AI In Business
Typically, this time of year we look to the future and the future of AI isn’t very bright for people. I participated in a podcast on this topic earlier this month. OpenAI has released their template for AGI (Artificial Read more…
New Funding Fuels Rockfish’s Synthetic Data Expansion
We live in an age of data abundance, where information is generated at an unprecedented rate. While data holds the key to driving innovation, unlocking valuable insights, and transforming industries, organizations often Read more…