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Adapting Your Search Engine to ‘AI Armageddon’ and ‘Zero Click’ Journeys
AI is upending all sorts of traditions, including how people get information and how they shop. Thanks to AI-powered search engines, users no longer need to visit websites to get news or product information. That change Read more…
Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Clint Sharp
The observability data deluge has gotten so bad that the volume of observability data generated is often bigger than the structured data organizations want to keep. Instead of draining your bank account to store all this Read more…
AtScale Likes Its Odds in Race to Build Universal Semantic Layer
Semantic layers are suddenly a hot commodity thanks to their capability to make private business data make sense to AI models. Databricks and Snowflake are both building their own semantic layers, but if broad industry s Read more…
Why Your New AI Tools (and the Companies Making Them) Are Failing You
The initial euphoria surrounding generative AI is officially over. It has been replaced by a simmering, and in many cases boiling, frustration from the very users these platforms are meant to serve. The recent rollout of Read more…
The Rise of Vibe Coding and What It Means for Developer Creativity
Spend enough time writing code and you start to develop a sixth sense, not just for logic or syntax, but for rhythm. There’s a creative cadence to software development that, when you're in it, feels a lot like flow. Th Read more…
News In Brief
MIT Report Flags 95% GenAI Failure Rate, But Critics Say It Oversimplifies
MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 has gone viral, and it’s not hard to see why. The report opens with a bold headline that more than $30 billion has been spent on GenAI, yet 95% of enterprise pilots still fail to ma Read more…
AI Hype Cycle: Gartner Charts the Rise of Agents, ModelOps, Synthetic Data, and AI Engineering
Gartner says the average company spent around $1.9 million on GenAI last year, yet fewer than 30% of AI leaders think their CEOs are satisfied with the results. That gap between spending and satisfaction is concerning. Read more…
Confluent Embeds AI Agents Into the Data Stream to Enable Real-Time Agentic AI
Why are so many enterprise AI agents still stuck in pilot mode? Companies have invested heavily in building intelligent systems, but most never make it past the testing phase. The problem is not usually the models themse Read more…
Anaconda Report Links AI Slowdown to Gaps in Data Governance
The push to scale AI across the enterprise is running into an old but familiar problem: governance. As organizations experiment with increasingly complex model pipelines, the risks tied to oversight gaps are starting to Read more…
This Just In
NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO– Accenture has made a strategic investment in OPAQUE, a provider of a confidential AI platform that empowers organizations to run cloud-scale, general purpose AI workloads using encrypted data and governed data sharing, with a focus on privacy, sovereignty and compliance. Read more…
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6, 2025 — SoftServe, a premier IT consulting and digital services provider, today released survey results on the state of data management in 2025, unveiling significant benefits of strong data foundations while exposing the widespread deficits in data maturity affecting most businesses. Read more…
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2025 — Cognida.ai, a leader in practical AI solutions for enterprises, today announced the successful close of its $15 million Series A funding round, led by Nexus Venture Partners. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6, 2025 — TrueFoundry, an AI deployment and scaling platform, today announced it raised $19 million in Series A funding, led by Intel Capital. Existing investors Eniac Ventures and Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India & Read more…
FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 31, 2025 — Observo AI, an AI-native data pipeline company solving data sprawl and exponentially rising costs in observability and security, has announced it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Read more…