
Inside Microsoft Fabric’s Push to Rethink How AI Sees Data
AI systems are getting better at working with data, but they still struggle to understand how things connect. They might be able to find patterns or make predictions, but they often miss the bigger picture, like how a su Read more…
MIT’s CHEFSI Brings Together AI, HPC, And Materials Data For Advanced Simulations
MIT has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to launch a new research center aimed at simulating some of the harshest physical environments ever studied. The proje Read more…
AI Agents Debut Atop Gartner 2025 Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech
How quickly does the AI market evolve? Consider that a year ago, Gartner didn’t even include AI agents on its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Fast forward 12 months, and AI agents sit atop the hype cycle, along w Read more…
Agentic AI and the Scientific Data Revolution in Life Sciences
Life sciences run on data. Genomic sequences, trial results, patient charts, regulatory filings—it never ends. Each stage produces massive volumes, but much of it still sits in systems that don’t connect. Scientis Read more…
New Intelligent Data Kit Brings AI and No-Code to Algolia’s Data Play
We’ve all heard it by now. The problem isn’t the model, it’s the data. That line has been said many times in AI circles. However, for engineers trying to build production-grade systems, it’s still painfully accur Read more…
Anomalo Pulls the Cover Back on Its Six Pillars of Data Quality
Bad data has been around since cavemen started making the first errant marks on the cave. Fast forward into our big data age, and the scale of the data quality problem has increased exponentially. While AI-powered automa Read more…
Sphinx Emerges with Copilot for Data Science
Sphinx emerged from stealth today with an AI copilot designed specifically for data scientists and $9.5 million in seed money. While the typical copilot targets software developers, Sphinx aims to bring AI technology to Read more…
AI Never Clocks Out: How Smart Leaders Are Funding the 24/7 Customer Revolution
When DIRECTV sought to elevate its customer experience to the next level, it shifted its approach to AI adoption. Its leadership implemented a targeted AI solution for predictive routing, which delivered measurable resul Read more…
Voltron Positions Data Flow as the Next Frontier in AI Performance
At enterprise scale, GPUs rarely stumble because they’ve run out of raw compute power. The slowdown comes when the data can’t keep pace. Once workloads stretch into the tens or hundreds of terabytes, the real drag sh Read more…
Neo4j Cranks Up the Scaling Factor with New Infinigraph Architecture
Neo4j this week unveiled its new Infinigraph architecture that it says addresses one of the fundamental challenges in the scaling of graph databases: the difficulty in keeping a graph database’s structure in memory as Read more…
Fivetran Acquires Tobiko to Bring Order to Enterprise Data Chaos
When Fivetran acquired Census earlier this year, it marked a turning point in the company’s evolution. Known primarily for its automated data pipelines, Fivetran extended into reverse ETL, enabling companies to send wa Read more…
MIT Report Flags 95% GenAI Failure Rate, But Critics Say It Oversimplifies
MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 has gone viral, and it’s not hard to see why. The report opens with a bold headline that more than $30 billion has been spent on GenAI, yet 95% of enterprise pilots still fail to ma Read more…
The Automation Bottleneck: Why Data Still Holds Back Digital Transformation
Despite the progress made in financial services over the last decade, accomplishing automation at scale remains out of reach for many firms. Though the industry has no shortage of ambition or investment, it lacks the dat Read more…
WisdomAI Adds Agents to Context-Aware BI Tool
WisdomAI, one of the startups looking to drive semantic consistency into natural language query (NLQ), today launched a series of AI agents that will function as junior analysts to detect anomalies, prepare analyses, and Read more…
Alation and Immuta in Data Access Hookup
Sometimes you compete, and sometimes you cooperate. In the case of Alation and Immuta, the two companies today are celebrating a new partnership that will see them cooperating to help customers benefit from their respect Read more…
Understanding Problems in the Data Supply Chain: A Q&A with R Systems’ AI Director Samiksha Mishra
Organizations are waking up to the fact that how they source data to train AI models is just as important as how the AI models themselves are developed. In fact, the data arguably is more important, which is why it’s c Read more…
Career Notes for August 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…
How to Make Data Work for What’s Next
The push to adopt AI is forcing a lot of organizations to take a harder look at their data. Leaders want to take advantage of new tools and technologies, but they’re starting to see that their current data isn’t set Read more…