Databricks buys Quotient AI to boost enterprise‑grade AI agent performance

Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, a provider of AI agent evaluation and training software, to help enterprises scale AI agents in production more reliably. “Quotient AI was built to close the gap in agent evaluation and continual learning,” the company said in a statement, adding that the startup’s technology, infused inside its Genie and Agent…

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Microsoft’s .NET 11 Preview 2 offers cleaner stack traces

Microsoft has published Preview 2 of its planned .NET 11 software development platform, emphasizing progress ranging from native runtime async to smaller SDK installers for Linux and macOS. Released March 10, .NET 11 Preview 2 can be downloaded from net.microsoft.com. Preview 2 follows the February 10 release of Preview 1, with the production release expected…

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Snowflake Report Finds GenAI Paying Off for Enterprises Despite Data Challenges

The latest Snowflake report titled “The ROI of Gen AI and Agents” shows that GenAI seems to be working quite well in the enterprise setting – contrary to other reports that either point to feverish hype or stubborn skepticism. An overwhelming 92% of early adopters say they are seeing positive returns from the GenAI investments. …

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Oracle rejects request it give up control of MySQL

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes…

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Drive business productivity through open collaboration, AI and document creation

Businesses of all sizes depend on “office” suites for their day-to-day tasks and for collaboration. AI, for its part, promises significant productivity gains for knowledge workers and for anyone who works with documents. According to studies, we spend over half our time using “office” software. And the global market for productivity applications is worth $22.5…

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