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Austin Community College Bets 875,000 Dollars on an AI Data Layer Instead of More Advisers

Austin Community College is rolling out a Trellis Foundation funded Digital Twin Initiative to 46,000 students this fall, using AI to unify fragmented student data rather than hiring more advisers for caseloads already running 500 to 600 students deep.

Tapestry Puts Coach and Kate Spade Inside Google Gemini, Keeps Its Customer Data Anyway

Tapestry now sells Coach and Kate Spade products directly inside Google Search, the Gemini app and AI Mode, using Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, while insisting it still gets the same customer data it gets from its own site.

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AI & ML· 14h ago

AI Shopping Tool Use Crosses 50 Percent of US Consumers, NielsenIQ Says

NielsenIQ's latest Agentic Commerce Tracker found 51% of US consumers used an AI-powered shopping tool in the past month, the first time the figure has crossed the halfway mark, and NIQ is now moving to measure agentic commerce as its own channel.

Cybersecurity· 14h ago

DemandTec Bets Retailers and CPGs Will Finally Plan Promotions in the Same Room

DemandTec's new Co-Planning Calendar puts retailers and CPG suppliers into one shared, live workspace for promotion planning, replacing a decades-old ritual of emailed spreadsheets and unconfirmed funding commitments.

AI & ML· 14h ago

Groceryshop 2026 Exposes the Real Bottleneck: Grocers Don't Trust Their Own Data

At Groceryshop 2026, Kroger, Instacart and PwC each pointed to the same limiting factor on agentic grocery shopping: product data too messy for an AI agent to act on reliably.

Data Engineering· 14h ago

The Standalone Vector Database Is Dead, and Postgres Killed It

Pinecone built an entire category around approximate nearest-neighbor search, and now Postgres, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis all do the same thing natively. The money math behind that search has not gotten any easier.

Data Engineering·14h ago

Databricks Has Bought Five Companies in 2026 and Ali Ghodsi Says More Are Coming

Row Zero was the fifth Databricks acquisition of the year, following a security startup, a local Postgres engine, and two AI tooling deals. CEO Ali Ghodsi says the shopping spree is not close to over.

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Data Engineering·14h ago

Progress Software Pays 400 Million for Domo's Data Platform While Domo Stays Public and Smaller

Progress just bought the analytics and governance engine behind Domo's 2,400 customers for 400 million dollars, and Domo keeps the ticker but loses the product it was known for.

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Data Engineering·14h ago

Informatica's Answer to AI Hallucinations Is Called Garbage In, Gospel Out

A Salesforce customer's CEO got a wrong revenue number straight from Claude, no warning attached. Informatica's Dreamforce announcements are a bet that the fix is metadata, not model tuning.

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Digital Transformation·14h ago

96 Percent of IT Leaders Say They Have a Complete AI Agent Inventory, and Two Thirds Had an Incident Anyway

A new Morning Consult survey of 362 IT decision-makers finds near-universal confidence in AI agent oversight alongside a 66.7 percent operational incident rate, exposing a governance gap CIOs cannot see from their own dashboards.

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Digital Transformation·14h ago

McDonald's Puts 8.5 Billion Dollars Behind a Decade-Long Bet on ArchIQ and a Global Data Lake

McDonald's is committing 8.5 billion dollars over ten years to unify its systems and scale AI ordering across 46,000 restaurants, projecting roughly 100,000 dollars in annual cash flow benefit per franchisee.

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Digital Transformation·14h ago

Bank of America Will Double Its AI Budget After 140 Projects Paid Back 2x

Brian Moynihan says $400 million in AI spending has already returned $800 million, and the bank plans to double its AI budget in 2027 without a single layoff to fund it.

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AI & ML·14h ago

A Startup Wants to Replace Slack With a Chat App Built for AI Agents, Not Humans First

Ando raised $20 million to build team messaging where AI agents get their own identities and inboxes alongside employees, betting that Slack and Teams were never designed for a workforce that includes software.

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AI & ML·14h ago

Congress Floats a Federal AI Department and a Crash-Investigation Board for AI Incidents

Two bills introduced this week would pause frontier AI development pending a new cabinet-level agency and create an NTSB-style board to investigate AI-driven cyberattacks, following the OpenAI breach of Hugging Face infrastructure in July.

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AI & ML·14h ago

Cognition's AI Coding Agent Devin Hits a $1 Billion Run Rate in Under Two Years

Cognition says Devin crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue less than two years after general availability, with GE Aerospace and Rivian among the enterprise customers running it in production.

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AI & ML·14h ago

New York City Moves to Force Kill Switches Into Every AI System Sold There

Council Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a bill package requiring outside audits, human override controls and 24-hour incident reporting for any AI system sold or deployed in the city, with fines up to $25,000 per violation.

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AI & ML·14h ago

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Move to Write Their Own AI Safety Rulebook

The three labs are building a private standards body for third-party testing and incident reporting, after their earlier public-private safety effort stalled under a lighter-touch Washington.

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Cloud·14h ago

Oracle's Force Majeure Notice on Its OpenAI Data Center Shows Gas Pipelines Are the Real AI Bottleneck

Oracle filed a force majeure notice on its 2.45 gigawatt Stargate data center in New Mexico after a gas pipeline delay pushed supply to February 2027, a reminder that permitting and fuel logistics, not chip supply, now set the pace of AI infrastructure delivery.

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Austin Community College Bets 875,000 Dollars on an AI Data Layer Instead of More Advisers

Tapestry Puts Coach and Kate Spade Inside Google Gemini, Keeps Its Customer Data Anyway

AI Shopping Tool Use Crosses 50 Percent of US Consumers, NielsenIQ Says

DemandTec Bets Retailers and CPGs Will Finally Plan Promotions in the Same Room

Groceryshop 2026 Exposes the Real Bottleneck: Grocers Don't Trust Their Own Data

The Standalone Vector Database Is Dead, and Postgres Killed It

Databricks Has Bought Five Companies in 2026 and Ali Ghodsi Says More Are Coming

Progress Software Pays 400 Million for Domo's Data Platform While Domo Stays Public and Smaller

Informatica's Answer to AI Hallucinations Is Called Garbage In, Gospel Out

96 Percent of IT Leaders Say They Have a Complete AI Agent Inventory, and Two Thirds Had an Incident Anyway

McDonald's Puts 8.5 Billion Dollars Behind a Decade-Long Bet on ArchIQ and a Global Data Lake

Bank of America Will Double Its AI Budget After 140 Projects Paid Back 2x

A Startup Wants to Replace Slack With a Chat App Built for AI Agents, Not Humans First

Congress Floats a Federal AI Department and a Crash-Investigation Board for AI Incidents

Cognition's AI Coding Agent Devin Hits a $1 Billion Run Rate in Under Two Years

New York City Moves to Force Kill Switches Into Every AI System Sold There

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Move to Write Their Own AI Safety Rulebook

Oracle's Force Majeure Notice on Its OpenAI Data Center Shows Gas Pipelines Are the Real AI Bottleneck

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