Austin Community College Bets 875,000 Dollars on an AI Data Layer Instead of More Advisers
AI & ML
Bruno Digital · 15h ago

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.

The Standalone Vector Database Is Dead, and Postgres Killed It
Data Engineering·15h 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.

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Databricks Has Bought Five Companies in 2026 and Ali Ghodsi Says More Are Coming
Data Engineering·15h 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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Progress Software Pays 400 Million for Domo's Data Platform While Domo Stays Public and Smaller
Data Engineering·15h 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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Informatica's Answer to AI Hallucinations Is Called Garbage In, Gospel Out
Data Engineering·15h 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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IBM Owns Confluent Now, and the Whole Streaming Data Map Just Got Redrawn Around Sovereignty
Data Engineering·1d ago

IBM Owns Confluent Now, and the Whole Streaming Data Map Just Got Redrawn Around Sovereignty

The Q3 2026 data streaming landscape report ditches its old deployment-only matrix because jurisdiction, not just cost, is now deciding where enterprises put their Kafka infrastructure.

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Snowflake's Coding Assistant Crossed 9,100 Accounts and Pulled the Whole Revenue Forecast Up With It
Data Engineering·1d ago

Snowflake's Coding Assistant Crossed 9,100 Accounts and Pulled the Whole Revenue Forecast Up With It

Product revenue grew 37 percent and Snowflake raised its full-year guidance by 230 million dollars, with Cortex AI products responsible for roughly half of the acceleration.

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94 Percent of Security Leaders Trust Their AI Agents, Only 33 Percent Actually Locked Them Down
Data Engineering·1d ago

94 Percent of Security Leaders Trust Their AI Agents, Only 33 Percent Actually Locked Them Down

A new survey finds enterprises running dozens of AI agents cannot produce a complete 30-day activity log for nearly half of them, and confidence is not the same thing as control.

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Databricks Buys a Spreadsheet Startup Built to Handle a Billion Rows Excel Cannot Touch
Data Engineering·1d ago

Databricks Buys a Spreadsheet Startup Built to Handle a Billion Rows Excel Cannot Touch

Row Zero runs each spreadsheet on its own dedicated cloud instance, and Databricks wants that scale to become the interface finance and operations teams use to talk to Genie.

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Redgate Builds an AI Assistant That Already Knows Your Database Schema
Data Engineering·2d ago

Redgate Builds an AI Assistant That Already Knows Your Database Schema

Redgate's new AI Assistant skips the step where a database professional re-explains their schema to a generic chatbot, and the timing lines up with a sharp jump in AI adoption for database work.

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Acceldata Launches xFactory to Let Enterprises Build AI Agents on Data That Never Leaves Home
Data Engineering·2d ago

Acceldata Launches xFactory to Let Enterprises Build AI Agents on Data That Never Leaves Home

Acceldata's new xFactory turns plain language business requests into governed AI agents that query federated data in place, aiming to remove the choice between moving fast on AI and keeping regulated data under control.

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Confluent, Redpanda and Three Rivals Just Named What Comes After the Lakehouse
Data Engineering·2d ago

Confluent, Redpanda and Three Rivals Just Named What Comes After the Lakehouse

Five streaming vendors that normally compete head to head formed a working group to define streamhouse architecture, a bet that live data infrastructure needs its own category before hyperscalers define it for them.

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OpenObserve Hits v1.0 and Folds AI Agent Tracing Into the Same Platform as Logs
Data Engineering·2d ago

OpenObserve Hits v1.0 and Folds AI Agent Tracing Into the Same Platform as Logs

OpenObserve's v1.0 release puts agent tracing, LLM cost tracking, and evaluation next to logs, metrics, and traces, betting that most enterprises will not stand up a separate AI observability stack.

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