AI Is Running Into a $7 Trillion Wall

The rise of AI over the past two years or so has often been framed as a high stakes race. Bigger models, unbelievable company valuations, more compute and bigger datacenters. Every milestone reinforced the meteoric trajectory of AI’s growth. Could AI keep scaling without limit? Many hyperscalers and governments aligned around that vision, committing to…

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MariaDB to Acquire GridGain to Tackle the AI Latency Gap

MariaDB is set to acquire GridGain Systems with the aim to deliver sub-millisecond data performance for agentic AI workloads. GridGain is the company behind the in-memory computing platform and developer of the open source project Apache Ignite. The deal comes at a time when technology vendors are rethinking the foundations of the modern data stack…

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Snowflake debuts Cortex Code, an AI agent that understands enterprise data context

Snowflake has launched Cortex Code, an AI-based coding agent that aims to extend AI assistance beyond SQL generation and conversational analytics into data and app development tasks. Cortex Code is designed to understand enterprise data context, including schemas, governance rules, compute constraints, and production workflows, Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product at Snowflake, said during a…

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GitHub previews support for Claude and Codex coding agents

GitHub is adding support for the Anthropic Claude and OpenAI Codex coding agents, via its Agent HQ AI platform. The capability is in public preview. Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, GitHub announced on February 4. GitHub said that Copilot…

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