Enterprise leaders face a growing gap between AI ambition and the fragmented data, legacy systems, and cultural friction that prevent pilots from becoming scalable value.
In this episode, Julian Tang, Chief Operations Officer for the Innovation Office at BlackRock, examines how unified data foundations, modernized infrastructure, and transparent governance enable organizations to...
Standing up an agent as a production service on Kubernetes means five YAML files, a few hundred lines between them, and (in most enterprises) a ticket in someone else’s queue. On the Workload API it means one spec file, one command, and about five minutes to a live URL. No manifests, no kubectl, no namespace,...
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Most AI pilots never get cancelled. They demo well in the spring, pick up a second round of scope over the summer, and by autumn the two people who built the thing have been pulled onto something with a firmer deadline, without anyone writing the word “failed” anywhere. The question of why AI pilots fail […]
Ever wondered how ChatGPT, Gemini, and other chat interfaces generate PDFs, PowerPoints, and more when all they have under the hood is an LLM? The trick isn’t a smarter model. It’s something simpler: skills which are instructions an agent loads only when needed. Next, let’s explore how skills work using LangChain and how they can make […]
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic license plate readers around the US, announced some changes to its platform last Thursday. The updates are meant to prevent…
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each other,…
Prompt engineering for data analysts has one failure mode that general AI writing advice never touches: the model returns SQL that parses cleanly, runs without error, and produces a number that’s wrong in a way no one catches until somebody questions the dashboard three weeks later. The request was usually underspecified rather than the model […]
The gap between what your corporate clients expect and what most firms can deliver on equity management has become the clearest growth opportunity in the market. For years, equity compensation was viewed as a specialized service reserved for large public companies and executive compensation teams. That is no longer the case. Stock options, RSUs, ESPPs, […]
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Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) has released its 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards, a competition voted on by DBTA readers to recognize the best information management products, services, and solutions. This year, we’re proud to announce that Simba Intelligence was voted Best Semantic Layer Solution. Here, we discuss the award and why a semantic layer shouldn’t […]
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Saving time is not the goal of AI. Spending it on something better is.