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Why Data Modeling Is Not Enough

Otto Dettmer/Ikon Images Imagine that, as an operations manager at a global retailer, you have invested heavily in data science. Your data science team has built sophisticated models that produce demand predictions for the company’s products with impressive accuracy.

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AI Harms and Their Technical Causes

How technical choices can lead to safety failures, and what to do differently The post AI Harms and Their Technical Causes appeared first o…

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EmbeddingGemma 2 Expands Beyond Text to Support Code, Images, Video, and Audio

Based on Gemma 4 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-weight, multimodal embedding model…

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EmbeddingGemma 2 Expands Beyond Text to Support Code, Images, Video, and Audio

Based on Gemma 4 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-weight, multimodal embedding model…

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NestJS 12: ESM Packages, Standard Schema Validation and Native Observability

NestJS version 12 has been released, transitioning core packages to ESM and adding Standard Schema validation. It updates the CLI and intro…

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When EEG Models See the Same People in Training and Testing

How participant-aware evaluation changed performance across three machine-learning models The post When EEG Models See the Same People in T…

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Transactions are Generally Available, advancing warehousing on the Lakehouse

Multi-Statement Transactions are Generally Available, enabling organizations to run...

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Do You Still Own the Code Your AI Wrote? I Built CodeOwnership to Measure It

I rated my confidence 4 out of 5, then couldn’t find a planted bug in 8 minutes. Here is the tool, the run, and its limits. The post Do You…

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Zod Brings In-Process Schema Compilation and a 9x Cut in Memory Footprint

Zod is a TypeScript-focused schema validation library that recently released versions 4.5 and 4.6. Key updates include schema compilation f…

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Only 34% trust synthetic data’s referential integrity — and it’s holding adoption back

While enterprise leaders overwhelmingly believe in the promise of synthetic data, adoption lags. As a result, synthetic data has great, The…

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Agentic RAG vs. Naive RAG: When Your Retrieval System Should Think for Itself

From static retrieval pipelines to autonomous reasoning engines: a complete breakdown of how these two architectures work, where each falls…

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Deploying Data Science Tools: Part 1

Getting your data science code running anywhere The post Deploying Data Science Tools: Part 1 appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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How our AI Research team uses AI Runtime

At Databricks, we continuously develop and evaluate new AI research techniques to...

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Stripe Data Pipeline now syncs real-time Stripe data to Lakebase Postgres

If your business runs on Stripe, your application needs access to Stripe data at...

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Reducing the noise: How Atlassian built an OCSF security lakehouse on Databricks

The challenge: Two decades of logging noise at global scaleAtlassian is a global...

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Geospatial queries are up to 38X faster with Lakehouse//RT

Spatial SQL and spatial joins now run on Lakehouse//RT and they're up to 38X faster...

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Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models

Meta on Thursday launched Muse Spark Open, a new 816B open model (with 42B active parameters) that the company argues The post Meta ships M…

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Jev Your Engines: Seven Open Decision Models vs. a Generative LLM

A hands-on Jev repo comparison of routing accuracy, latency, and output reliability The post Jev Your Engines: Seven Open Decision Models v…

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I Tested Four Ways to Give an AI Assistant a Memory. The Obvious One Was the Worst Value.

Pasting in the whole chat history cost 20 to 31 times more than looking up notes, and it did no better on the tasks. The post I Tested Four…

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Grafana Tempo 3.1 Adds Query-Based Trace Redaction and Sampling-Aware TraceQL Metrics

Grafana Labs has released Tempo 3.1, the first minor update to the 3.0 architecture. It adds TLS and additional SASL mechanisms to the Kafk…

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How FactSet cut model training and deployment from days to hours with Databricks AI Runtime

FactSet’s Text-to-Formula (TTF) system has a deceptively difficult job: take a natural-language...

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Predictable AI spend in BigQuery: Introducing cost management for generative AI functions

The generative AI functions in BigQuery (AI.GENERATE, AI.IF, AI.CLASSIFY, AI.SCORE, and more) bring large language models (LLMs) directly i…

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Your database decision could come back to haunt you

When building AI prototypes, developers naturally want to get up and running as fast as possible. But move too fast, The post Your database…

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How Do Word Embeddings Capture Relationships Between Words?

Understanding how words become related in a learned vector space The post How Do Word Embeddings Capture Relationships Between Words? appea…

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A practical guide to real-time analytics in 2026

Data has always been central to business decision-making, and most analytical workloads...

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Everyone's adopting AI agents. Almost no one can prove the ROI. Here's why

Amber Roberts, Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Databricks, has spent the last...

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Databricks is a Visionary the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

We are incredibly excited to announce that Databricks has made its inaugural appearance...

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5 AutoHotkey Scripts for Data Scientists

Five AutoHotkey v2 scripts that handle repetitive Windows desktop work around data analysis: launching a project workspace, converting clip…

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Agentic data science with the Data Agent Kit

Imagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you’re the data scient…

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How Flo Health built safer, more useful open models with Databricks AI Runtime

For Flo Health, the bar for generative AI is unusually high. With 81 million monthly...

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