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Pipelines, architecture, and governance for AI-ready systems. This coverage follows real-time data infrastructure, vector databases, and the retrieval and quality problems enterprises hit while building for AI.

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CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions

CTGT replaced the identifiers with stable labels, sorted the list and isolated each test in a fresh organizational environment. Five subsequent runs each produced the same 34 obligations.

Carl Franzen

October 21, 2026

Decision models like Jev handle what SQL rules cannot. Here's how data teams use them

Data platforms make decisions all day. An SQL query keeps the rows over a threshold, matches a keyword, and joins two tables on a shared ID. A pipeline sends a failed job down a retry path. Rules like these work when the answer sits in the data in a clean form.

Sean Michael Kerner

October 19, 2026

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The next-gen AI stack: Unifying data and knowledge without borders

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Neeraja Rentachintala, Google Cloud

October 13, 2026

Companies are building governed semantic layers. Most say their AI agents are getting context somewhere else

Nearly twice as many companies now name live-system queries as their AI agents' main context source. OpenAI, Keewano and Snowflake supply the missing context differently.

Sean Michael Kerner

October 6, 2026

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Shouldn’t customer service AI remember you? Siena to expand 'Agent of Record' combining purchase history with support and social

Siena's website describes agents that can update delivery addresses, create return labels, process refunds and arrange replacements

Carl Franzen

October 6, 2026

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Exclusive: Google expands pilot program that pays developers and small businesses for proprietary, offline code (and other data)

Google has not specified which products will use code obtained through this pilot, how much it pays, or what rights it receives under a typical agreement. Those

Carl Franzen

September 30, 2026

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Claude Opus 5.5 uses em-dashes 99% less often and sounds more human — but still exhibits 2,548 AI writing tells

All models receive one fixed prompt. The team does not specifically instruct them to imitate human authors or suppress known tells.

Carl Franzen

September 30, 2026

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When the data can't move: What it takes to run enterprise AI anywhere

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VB Staff

September 22, 2026

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AWS's OpenSearch pitch ahead of OpenSearchCon: retrieval, serverless costs and agent memory

Ahead of OpenSearchCon North America, AWS is pitching OpenSearch as one platform for retrieval, serverless economics and agent memory. Rob Strechay on what that consolidation actually buys — and where it stops.

Rob Strechay

September 17, 2026

Cohere's Model Vault now encrypts AI inference so even Cohere cannot see enterprise customers' data

Cohere plans on making the full serving stack used in Model Vault open source so that independent auditors will be able to validate that it doesn't log, export, or leak data.

Sean Michael Kerner

September 16, 2026

The share of developers using AI to write half or more code jumped from 12% to 42% YOY in latest BairesDev survey

The implication for enterprise engineering organizations is that AI adoption does not eliminate the cost of expertise; it changes where that expertise is required

Carl Franzen

September 15, 2026

Every user, device and agent gets its own table in KeewanoDB, and queries never join across them

Keewano says the reason agents cannot explain why something happened is that the sequence was taken apart before they ever queried it.

Sean Michael Kerner

September 15, 2026