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Mastering the dull reality of sexy AI

The real gap in enterprise AI isn’t who has access to models. It’s who has learned how to build retrieval, evaluation, memory, and governance into boring, repeatable systems.

Apr 13, 2026 6 mins

Data Engineering Developer Python

How to halve Claude output costs with a markdown tweak

A data analyst has shown how a simple markdown file can halve Claude's token output; it could be effective to a degree in helping enterprises taming costs around AI as they move to production, analysts say.

Mar 31, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Databricks pitches Lakewatch as a cheaper SIEM — but is it really?

The agentic SIEM shifts costs from ingestion to compute, promising cheaper retention and deeper analytics on enterprise security data.

Mar 26, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Security Information and Event Management Software Security Software

Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer

Microsoft’s geospatial data service is designed to help research projects using public satellite and sensor information.

Mar 17, 2026 7 mins

Data Science Data Scientist Microsoft Azure

Migrating from Apache Airflow v2 to v3

Airflow 2's April 2026 death warrant is signed; either embrace the "Asset" revolution now or get left behind with a broken UI and obsolete dependencies.

Mar 16, 2026 6 mins

Data Engineering Development Tools Open Source

Databricks launches Genie Code to automate data science and engineering tasks

The launch of Genie Code, analysts say, signals Databricks’ growing ambition to turn its lakehouse platform into the environment where enterprise AI systems build, run, and manage data workflows.

Mar 13, 2026 5 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Science

Migrating Python to Rust with Claude: What could go wrong?

Using an LLM to migrate a Python web app to Rust seemed like a fun project, but then hit the bumps.

Mar 13, 2026 3 mins

Data Science Python Ruby

Anthropic alleges large-scale distillation campaigns targeting Claude

The AI company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used fraudulent accounts and proxy services to extract Claude’s capabilities at scale, even as experts point out that the industry itself relies heavily on publicly available data.

Feb 24, 2026 6 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering

Multi-token prediction technique triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary draft models

With reported 3x speed gains and limited degradation in output quality, the method targets one of the biggest pain points in production AI systems: latency at scale.

Feb 24, 2026 4 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Science

Snowflake extends Cortex Code CLI to dbt and Airflow to streamline data engineering workflows

By moving Cortex into dbt and Airflow, Snowflake is aiming to eliminate context switching and pull AI closer to production pipelines, analysts say.

Feb 24, 2026 3 mins

Analytics Data Engineering Developer