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Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami

Data Leaders Share Thoughts on World Backup Day

As far as holidays go, World Backup Day does not generate the excitement of Christmas or Halloween. There is no mascot, such as a “Backup Bunny” (sorry, Easter), nor any imbibing of adult beverages, as on St. Patrick Read more…

Meet Maxime Beauchemin, a 2023 Person to Watch

When it comes to prolific contributors to open source projects in the big data space, Maxime Beauchemin is definitely somebody you should know. As a data engineer at Airbnb, Beauchemin created multiple tools that he subs Read more…

Large Language Models: Don’t Believe the Hype

We’ve reached the Skynet moment for AI, it would seem. GPT-4, cast in the role of Terminator, has not only achieved consciousness, but it’s coming for your job, too. Everything will be different now, and there’s no Read more…

Open Letter Urges Pause on AI Research

The Future of Life Institute has issued an open letter calling for a six-month pause on some forms of AI research. Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” the group is asking AI labs to pause research on AI Read more…

Google Cloud Bolsters Data, Analytics, and AI Offerings

Today at its Data Cloud & AI Summit, Google Cloud unleashed a series of enhancements designed to bolster various database, analytics, and AI and machine learning offerings, including its BigQuery data warehouse, Look Read more…

DBHawk Partners with Microsoft Azure, Lands Patent for Sensitive Data

DBHawk developer Datasparc has entered into a new partnership with Microsoft that will increase its customers’ ability to work with data in the Azure cloud. The San Diego-based company has also secured a new patent for Read more…

Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction

Today’s cloud infrastructure is fantastic. The richness and power of our cloud-native ecosystem around Kubernetes are easy to forget. It’s hard to remember the world before containers and Kubernetes. How hard it was Read more…

Vector Databases Emerge to Fill Critical Role in AI

Vector databases arrived on the scene a few years ago to help power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Companies like Home Depot dramatically improved the search exper Read more…

Databricks Bucks the Herd with Dolly, a Slim New LLM You Can Train Yourself

Databrick is getting into the large language model (LLM) game with Dolly, a slim new language model that customers can train themselves on their own data residing in Databricks’ lakehouse. Despite the sheepish name, Do Read more…

Kobai Rides Atop the Lakehouse with Semantic Graph Engine

Kobai this week announced the launch of Saturn, a new offering designed to bring the power of the knowledge graph to data already stored in lakehouses. By creating a semantic layer that sits atop Snowflake and Databricks Read more…

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