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SQL Query Optimization: How Driver Architecture Shapes Database Performance

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Why Driver Architecture Matters for SQL Query Performance When it comes to database performance, most focus on writing better SQL or tuning database parameters. Both matter. But there’s a third layer that’s crucial to consider: the driver sitting between your application and your data source. Drivers decide where query operations actually execute. Some operations get […] The post SQL...

Enabling agent-first process redesign

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Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around agents rather than bolting them onto fragmented legacy workflows using traditional optimization...

Decentralized Trials That Scale Globally Without Compliance Risks - with Emma Vitalini of Amgen

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Today's guest is Emma Vitalini, Head of Global Digital Health Technology Innovation at Amgen. Amgen is a global biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and delivering medicines for serious illnesses. Emma joins Emerj Editorial Director Matthew DeMello to examine how data and AI are reshaping patient recruitment, decentralized clinical trials, and compliance workflows in...

LLM Wiki Revolution: How Andrej Karpathy’s Idea is Changing AI

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Think about revisiting items you’ve saved to Pocket, Notion or your bookmarks. Most people don’t have the time to re-read all of these things after they’ve saved them to these various apps, unless they have a need. We are excellent at collecting tons of information. However, we are just not very good at making any […] The post LLM Wiki Revolution: How Andrej Karpathy’s Idea is Changing...

Rethinking Enterprise Search: How Cortex Search Turns Data into Business Impact 

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According to Stack Overflow and Atlassian, developers lose between 6 and 10 hours every week searching for information or clarifying unclear documentation. For a 50-developer team, that adds up to $675,000–$1.1 million in wasted productivity every year. This is not just a tooling issue. It is a retrieval problem.Enterprises have plenty of data but lack […] The post Rethinking Enterprise...

FX Risk Management: The Operational Framework Finance Teams Need

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For multinational companies, foreign exchange volatility is a fact of life. Exchange rate fluctuations occur daily—sometimes dramatically, depending on the geopolitical situation. Those movements flow directly into revenue figures, cost structures, and reported earnings. To avoid the threat of potential losses, finance teams need to manage foreign exchange risk proactively, rather than...

The one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI

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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. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher at Anthropic, responding Wednesday to a call for…

AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make

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For years Mike McClary sold the Guardian LTE Flashlight, a heavy-duty black model, online through his small outdoor brand. The product, designed for brightness and durability, became one of his most popular items ever. Even after he stopped offering it around 2017, customers kept sending him emails asking where they could buy it.  When McClary…

Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

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Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.