The AI fatigue that defined the late 2023 and 2024 business cycles was, in hindsight, a necessary correction. During that period, many organizations found themselves trapped in what industry observers called “pilot purgatory.” Millions were poured into experimental generative AI pilots, comprised mostly of chatbots designed to summarize meetings or draft internal emails. While these…
At its BUILD London event yesterday, Snowflake rolled out a new set of AI capabilities aimed at simplifying the development of agents and other advanced applications. The new capabilities include native integration of Snowflake Postgres, Semantic View Autopilot, and Cortex Code, among other tools. These new capabilities come only a couple of days after Snowflake…
Data gravity never actually disappeared, so it may not be fully accurate to say it’s back. However, it definitely stayed quiet. Traditional data analytics workloads were forgiving enough that this problem was not catastrophic. Dashboards loading slightly slower, or reports running overnight were not a disaster. The system continued to work, even if it was…
