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Agentic AI Spurs Data Stack Updates at Snowflake Summit
How do you move, store, access, and track data in the age of AI? It sounds like a simple question, but it has complex implications for the companies that are actually doing it. This challenge was front and center at the Read more…
Why Snowflake Bought Crunchy Data
Monday brought the first surprise from Snowflake Summit 25: the acquisition of Crunchy Data for a reported $250 million. Crunchy Data is an established South Carolina company that has been running and building upon the o 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…
ClickHouse Secures $350 Million to Build the Data Backbone for the AI Era
ClickHouse, known for its high-performance columnar database technology, has secured $350 million in Series C funding to address the growing demand for real-time and scalable analytics in the AI era. In a market whe 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…
News In Brief
Databricks Is Making a Long-Term Play to Fix AI’s Biggest Constraint
At this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, the company announced two closely linked initiatives: a $100 million investment in global data and AI education, and the launch of Databricks Free Edition, a Read more…
Databricks One Reimagines How Enterprises Work with Data and AI
For all the progress in data infrastructure, most enterprises are still struggling with the last mile: enabling business users to work directly with data and AI without relying on technical teams. In his keynote at Read more…
‘The Relational Model Always Wins,’ RelationalAI CEO Says
The tech industry has a voracious appetite for the Next Big Thing. But sometimes, it’s the older thing that ends up being the right tool for a new job. That’s the argument being made by RelationalAI founder and CEO M Read more…
Sigma Pushes Analytics Forward With Support for Semantic Views and Unstructured Data
For all the advances in analytics, two problems continue to plague data teams: misaligned or inconsistent metrics across tools and the inaccessibility of unstructured data. These two issues not only slow down decision-ma Read more…
Inside Kumo’s Plan to Scale Predictive AI Across Business Data
As enterprise GenAI adoption continues to surge, another equally transformative, but often less visible shift is happening - the rise of predictable AI built on structured data. While much of the recent innovation has fo Read more…
This Just In
EPM Software Importance at Highest Level Since 2019, with Organizations Reporting Extremely High Success Levels
NASHUA, N.H., July, 1, 2025 — In 2025, nearly 89% of respondents rate Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) as critical, very important, or important, substantially higher than in 2024, according to the Dresner Advisory Services 2025 Wisdom of Crowds Enterprise Performance Management Market Study. Read more…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2025 –Manta, the AI platform reinventing how organizations access and apply data science, announced today a major investment from Equal Opportunity Ventures of $2M dollars. This partnership is a milestone for Manta and serves to showcase a broader movement towards agentic AI – tools that don’t just analyze data, but actively clean it, explore it, test hypotheses, and surface insights autonomously. Read more…
SALT LAKE CITY, June 30, 2025 — Tracer AI, the recognized leader in AI-powered online brand protection, today announced the launch of Tracer Protect for ChatGPT, an industry-first solution that protects brands from the reputational harm being propagated at machine scale via AI chatbots by bad actors. Read more…
VANCOUVER, BC, June 27, 2025 — EarthDaily Analytics today announced the successful launch and initial contact with the first satellite of its EarthDaily Constellation, marking a major milestone in the deployment of its next generation Earth Observation system. Read more…
TORONTO, June 26, 2025 — Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, today released its 2025 Future of Professionals report, which reveals a significant divide between organizations* that have adopted an AI strategy and those that have not. Read more…