Forbes AI 50 List Shows Data Emerging as the Core of AI Value

Forbes recently released its 2026 AI 50 list that showcases the most influential and fast-growing AI startups right now. If you look at this year’s list, you would notice that the focus is no longer just on building the most powerful models. Many of the companies making headway are solving for deployment, data access, and…

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Snowflake offers help to users and builders of AI agents

Snowflake is enhancing Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code to create a unified experience connecting enterprise systems, data sources, and AI models with Snowflake data. It’s part of the company’s vision to become the control plane for the agentic enterprise, enabling enterprises to align data, tools, and workflows with AI agents built on its platform. With…

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Addressing the challenges of unstructured data governance for AI

Large enterprises in regulated industries, especially in data-rich financial services and insurance, have invested significantly in data governance programs. Other businesses have been catching up as part of their efforts to become more data-driven organizations. Data governance often starts with defining policies, classifying data sources, establishing data catalogs, and communicating non-negotiables.  But look a little…

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The cookbook for safe, powerful agents

As companies move from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production, one pattern becomes clear: capability without control is a liability. Agents operate in long-running, stateful environments. They browse the web, read repositories, execute shell commands, call APIs and interact with internal systems. That power is transformative — and it meaningfully expands the…

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Enterprises are rethinking Kubernetes

For years, Kubernetes held an almost mythic place in enterprise IT. It was positioned as the control plane for the future, the standard abstraction for cloud-native systems, and the platform that would finally free enterprises from infrastructure lock-in. To be fair, some of that was true. Kubernetes brought discipline to container orchestration, enabled portable deployment…

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