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A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

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Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people were unconvinced. But Subquadratic has started to bring the receipts, sharing the…

The AI-Ready Data Formula: Why Context Decides Whether AI Succeeds

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AI, large language models, agents. Nice toys. Without context, they become the fastest way to produce confidently wrong answers. “Context” has become one of those terms everyone uses and no one defines the same way. If you cannot pin it down, you cannot build it, govern it, or defend it. Let us call the input […]

Decision intelligence: Why insights alone don’t create value

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Most organizations are struggling to use AI insights. Even as it’s been easier than ever to produce predictions, recommendations and scores, many data science and business teams end up with a stockpile of unused information that doesn’t drive meaningful transformation. Decision intelligence helps organizations bridge that gap by embedding insights [...] The post Decision intelligence:...

System Design for ML Interviews: 10 Real Problems Walked Through

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ML system design interviews test how well you can think beyond models. In these interviews, choosing an algorithm is only one part of the answer. You also need to explain how data is collected, how features are created, how predictions are served, and how the system improves over time.  Most real ML systems are built […] The post System Design for ML Interviews: 10 Real Problems Walked...

Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the Starburst connector in Power BI (Preview)

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When enabling Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on (SSo) for Starburst (Preview) report viewers querying semantic models in DirectQuery mode authenticate to Starburst with their own Entra ID identity, to Starburst's access policies — including row-level and column-level security rules — are evaluated against the actual end user rather than a fixed connection account.

How Commerce Leaders Avoid Renewal Traps and Vendor Drag - with David Cost of Rainbow Apparel

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Enterprise software costs are rising while vendor performance often isn't, and AI has fundamentally changed what enterprises can credibly threaten to build in-house. In this episode, David Cost, Chief Digital Officer at Rainbow Apparel, explores how enterprise leaders can restructure vendor contracts to maintain exit leverage, eliminate auto-renewal traps, and use AI-enabled build...

Moving from Delayed Data to Event-Level Visibility - with Alex Curran of Aptitude Software

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Finance teams are being asked to influence outcomes in real time while operating on architectures built for delayed, aggregated, and heavily reconciled data. In this episode, Alex Curran, CEO at Aptitude Software, examines how finance functions can move toward real‑time, event‑level visibility and discusses this shift with host Dan Faggella. She highlights the practical changes required for...

DataRobot for Developers — integrating with the Google Antigravity CLI

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Antigravity CLI is the newest agentic coding CLI from Google, replacing the now-deprecated Gemini CLI. It inherits the asynchronous subagent model that makes Antigravity stand out from the field, syncs bidirectionally with Antigravity Desktop, and is optimized for speed on Gemini 3.5 Flash. DataRobot ships a full plugin for Antigravity CLI directly from the same... The post DataRobot...