Author » Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie is the managing editor of BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami).
AI Agents To Drive Scientific Discovery Within a Year, Altman Predicts
At the current pace of AI development, AI agents will be able to drive scientific discovery and solve tough technical and engineering problems within a year, OpenAI CEO and Founder Sam Altman said at the Snowflake Summit Read more…
Snowflake Widens Analytics and AI Reach at Summit 25
Snowflake unleashed a torrent of news today at its annual user conference, ranging from a new adaptive compute capability and Openflow data integration to new analytic capabilities and AI enhancements, such as AI SQL and Read more…
Row Zero Provides Excel-Like Experience for Billion-Row Data Sets
What do you do when your data set exceeds Microsoft Excel’s limit of 1 million rows? You could shell out thousands for analytics tools or even a big data warehouse, but you’ll probably still find yourself exporting C Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for May 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…
It’s Snowflake Vs. Databricks in Dueling Big Data Conferences
Snowflake and Databricks have emerged as the two data warehousing behemoths of the cloud era, slugging away at each other to attract customers and their big data workloads. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence, then, that th Read more…
Who Is AI Inference Pipeline Builder Chalk?
Data platform giants like Databricks and Snowflake do great when it comes to building data pipelines and running low-latency analytics to generate AI features, but they don’t solve the need for fresh data and complex c Read more…
dbt Labs Cranks the Performance Dial with New Fusion Engine
Dbt became one of the most used data tools thanks to its extensibility and simplicity. Now the folks behind dbt are taking the tool to the next level with the launch of a new Rust-powered Fusion engine, which dbt Labs CE Read more…
It’s Official: Informatica Agrees to Be Bought by Salesforce for $8 Billion
It’s been 13 months since Salesforce and Informatica called off their first attempt at an acquisition. But the second time appears to be the charm, as Informatica today announced that Salesforce will buy it for $8 bill Read more…
Democratic AI and the Quest for Verifiable Truth: How Absolute Zero Could Change Everything
AI is changing the world—fast. But as it grows more powerful, it also grows more… mysterious. Who built it? Who controls it? Can we trust it? These are the kinds of questions driving a movement toward a new kind of A Read more…
Cambridge Intelligence Delivers New Geospatial Visualization Kit, MapWeave
If you’re looking for a way to visually analyze geospatial data, you might be interested in a new software development kit (SDK) recently released by Cambridge Intelligence. Dubbed MapWeave, the software enables develo Read more…
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