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 Modern Data Stack Was Never Built to Make Decisions

I was in a meeting recently with a VP of Data at a mid-size enterprise when she said something that stopped me. We were talking about her team’s quarterly roadmap, and she paused and said, almost to herself: “We have faster pipelines than we’ve ever had, and somehow decisions still take a week.” She wasn’t…

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Anthropic’s latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that’s the point)

Anthropic has today released a new, improved Claude model, Opus 4.7, but has deliberately built it to be less capable than the highly-anticipated Claude Mythos. Anthropic calls Opus 4.7 a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6, offering advanced software engineering capabilities and improved visioning, memory, instruction-following, and financial analysis. However, the yet-to-be-released (and inadvertently leaked) Mythos…

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Starburst Rolls Out AIDA Using AI to Redefine BI Dashboards

If you’ve been following BigDATAwire coverage, you would have noticed the data and AI industry leaning toward real-time systems. Aligned with that trend, the enterprise intelligence platform Starburst has launched a new AI data assistant called AIDA that connects AI to governed enterprise data across distributed systems. The aim is to replace delayed reporting with…

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MuleSoft Agent Fabric adds new ways to keep AI agents in line

Salesforce first sought to tackle AI agent sprawl last year with Agent Fabric, a suite of capabilities and tools inside its MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform. Now, it’s seeking to further rein in unruly AI agents on its platform and those of other vendors too, with new governance tools and deterministic controls. When enterprises adopt multiple agentic…

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