OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?

OpenAI is reportedly planning to fold its ChatGPT application, Codex coding platform, and AI-powered browser into a single desktop ‘superapp’, a move that signals a shift toward enterprise and developer audiences and away from the consumer market that made the company a household name. The unified product will merge the ChatGPT interface, the Codex coding…

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OpenAI buys non-AI coding startup to help its AI to program

OpenAI on Thursday announced the acquisition of Astral, the developer of open source Python tools that include uv, Ruff and ty. It says that it plans to integrate them with Codex, its AI coding agent first released last year, as well as continuing to support the open source products. OpenAI stated in its announcement that…

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Snowflake Pushes Into Agentic AI with Project SnowWork

Snowflake is pushing further into the agentic AI trend with the launch of Project SnowWork, a new platform meant to help enterprises move beyond data analysis and into execution, with much of the work handled autonomously. With SnowWork, the aim is to go beyond dashboards and generated answers to automate the next steps, allowing business…

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Snowflake’s new ‘autonomous’ AI layer aims to do the work, not just answer questions

Snowflake has taken the covers off a product, currently under development, which it describes as an “autonomous” AI layer that promises to turn its data cloud from a place that answers questions about data into one that actually does the work: stitching together analysis, reports, and even slide decks on behalf of business users. Named…

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Databricks launches Genie Code to automate data science and engineering tasks

Databricks has launched Genie Code, a new AI agent, to help enterprise data practitioners automate data science and engineering tasks. Available as a panel inside Databricks’ notebooks, SQL Editor, and Lakeflow Pipelines editor, Genie Code can be used to plan, build, deploy, and maintain end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows, including automating experiment tracking with MLflow,…

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Why Postgres® has won as the de facto database: Today and for the agentic future

The AI economy is projected to reach $17 trillion by 2028, fundamentally altering how organizations architect their infrastructure. Driven by this shift, 95% of major global enterprises are on a mission-critical sprint to become their own AI and data platforms within the next two years.  Yet only 13% of enterprises have successfully found the formula. Their secret to mainstreaming…

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