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Fine-Tuning LLM Performance: How Knowledge Graphs Can Help Avoid Missteps

Fine-tuning is a crucial process in optimizing the performance of pre-trained LLMs. It involves further training the model on a smaller, more specific dataset tailored to a particular task or domain. This process allows Read more…

Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Dipti Borkar

Dipti Borkar is a big data veteran who has been there and done that. From stints at NoSQL database companies like Couchbase and MarkLogic to data platforms like Alluxio and Ahana, Borkar has accumulated valuable experien Read more…

Risk and Reward in Data Management

If you can’t justify spending large sums of time and money to implement a top-notch data management system, you might not only be hurting your business’ potential to utilize AI for a competitive advantage, but you mi Read more…

Informatica Goes All-In on AI Agents for Data Management

Informatica made a series of agentic AI announcements today at its annual user conference today in Las Vegas, including the introduction of AI Agent Engineering, a new offering that will enable customers to build their o 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

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…

DuckLake Makes a Splash in the Lakehouse Stack – But Can It Break Through?

DuckDB, the creators of the embedded analytics engine of the same name, have stirred the data world with a bold rethink of lakehouse architecture. The company has unveiled DuckLake, a new open table format designed to si 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…

In Conversation With LandingAI CEO Dan Maloney: Visual AI, Agentic Reasoning, and What’s Ahead

LandingAI, the visual AI company founded by Andrew Ng, recently made two major product developments: a partnership with Snowflake Cortex AI to bring real-time visual inspection to automotive manufacturers and upgrades to 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…

This Just In

Espresso AI Launches Kubernetes for Snowflake to Renovate Data Warehouses

Aug 6, 2025 |

NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2025 — Espresso AI, the LLM-Driven Cost Optimization Platform for data warehouses, today launched a Kubernetes Scheduler for Snowflake that intelligently routes queries between warehouses in real time. Read more…

BigID Redefines Data Classification with First-Ever AI-Powered Prompt Engine

Aug 6, 2025 |

NEW YORK, August 6, 2025 — BigID, a leading platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and AI data management, has introduced Prompt-Based Classification, the industry’s first natural language interface for data discovery and classification. Read more…

Redpanda Partners with Databricks to Deliver One‑Step Stream‑to‑Table Iceberg Integration for Real‑Time Lakehouses

Aug 6, 2025 |

SAN FRANCISCO, August 6, 2025 — Redpanda, the real-time data platform that powers agentic and operational applications, has announced Redpanda 25.2, which simplifies Iceberg adoption for enterprise users. Read more…

DataPelago Launches World’s 1st Accelerator for Apache Spark That Leverages Both CPUs and GPUs

Aug 5, 2025 |

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 — DataPelago today announced the launch of the DataPelago Accelerator for Spark, the world’s first accelerator to combine native execution, CPU vectorization, and GPU acceleration for Apache Spark workloads. Read more…

PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 8.0 Specification to Reach 256.0 GT/s

Aug 5, 2025 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 — PCI-SIG today announced the PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification will double the data of the PCIe 7.0 specification to 256.0 GT/s and is planned for release to members by 2028. Read more…

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