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DeltaStream Dreams: Bringing Batch, Streaming, and Real-Time Together
Companies have long dreamed of a single data platform that can handle their real-time and batch data and workloads, without some clunky interface in between. However, unless your name is Uber or Netflix, you probably don Read more…
AI Agents and The Trust Equation: When Does Real-Time Data Matter Most?
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves from offering suggestions to making autonomous decisions, organizations face a fundamental shift in their data requirements. This transition from exploratory AI to agentic AI—sys Read more…
Bad Vibes: Access to AI Training Data Sparks Legal Questions
As “vibe coding” goes mainstream, AI companies are rushing to build the biggest and most authoritative tech knowledge bases to train the next generation of AI copilots. But how will AI companies obtain these curated Read more…
Vendors Rush to Adopt MCP, the USB-C Cord for AI Integration
When Anthropic unveiled Model Context Protocol (MCP) last fall, it didn’t make a whole lot of headlines. Nearly six months later, the new protocol is the talk of the town as one data infrastructure vendor after another Read more…
News In Brief
Cloudflare Now Blocks Data Scrapers by Default
Organizations that are concerned about big AI companies scraping their websites for training data may be interested to learn that Cloudflare, which handles 20% of Internet traffic, now blocks all data scraping by default Read more…
OpenSearch Gets Parallel Performance Boost Thanks to GPUs
Organizations adopting OpenSearch for big data search, analytics, and AI will see a 9.5x performance increase compared to a prior release of the product, the group behind the open source project say, including a 9.3x boo Read more…
Acceldata Bolsters Anomaly Detection in Data Observability Tool
Acceldata this week unveiled a major update to its data observability platform that it claims can automatically detect hard-to-spot anomalies hidden in customers’ data. The update to the xLake Reasoning Engine comes as 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…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2025 — Algolia today introduces an intuitive, AI-powered feature: Smart Groups. Smart Groups provides merchandisers and content managers greater control over how products and items are displayed across search results and category pages. Read more…
TORONTO, April 22, 2025 — Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics and artificial intelligence, is partnering with Alpha Auto Group (AAG), an part of Global Automotive Holdings (GAHL), a leading automotive dealership network operating across Canada, the U.S., the UK, and Europe. Read more…
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 10, 2025 – COMPUTEX 2025, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for AIoT and startup innovation, will take place May 20–23 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2. Read more…
CHICAGO, April 8, 2025 — NielsenIQ (NIQ), a leader in consumer intelligence, has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Gastrograph AI, a market leading discovery and inquiry platform for sensory insights. Read more…
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…