Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded with...

A brief note on baptism, inheritance, and why technical terms have histories

A Berkeley/Stanford paper shows better models absorb agent scaffolding while semantic failures dominate. Why persistent, governed semantic context becomes the durable engineering problem.

Coginiti 26.8 deepens semantic modeling with a lineage graph, autocomplete and linting in the SMDL editor, and data quality testing for the Semantic Layer. It also adds synonyms,…

AWS announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB.

Row-level tests validate ingredients, not recipes. How CoginitiScript and Semantic SQL bring assertion-based testing to metrics, dimensions, and relationships.

Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer (N.D.) is placing a hold on all future Trump nominees over the administration’s approach to wetlands.  In a statement shared with The Hill, Cramer expressed disapp…

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Please join us for the 5th Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School (NSSS), a free, fully-remote meeting to be held Aug 6-7, 2026. Learn how to be part of this exciting…

The U.S.-based data crunching firm is deeply embedded in the most sensitive European workflows, from policing to intelligence to health care. Finding alternatives won’t be easy.

I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.

PHI 605SEM (13336), The World's Ontology Ecosystem, August 3–7, 2026. Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo and the National Center for Ontological Research.

The new capital will drive AI innovation across Unity AI Gateway, Genie, and LakebaseSAN FRANCISCO, CA — July 16, 2026 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced strategic funding at a $18...

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Learn four patterns for processing large datasets with LLM blocks while keeping prompts within token limits.

LLM blocks are scheduled to ship in the Coginiti 26.6 release. This tutorial is published as a preview so you can plan ahead — the feature is not yet available in earlier versions, and some details…

Philosophers are not new to AI. From ontology engineering to alignment, philosophy has long shaped how machines classify, reason, and act.

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MIT CISR's semantic layer briefing gets the failure mode right: AI on ungoverned data fails plausibly, not loudly. But its own evidence points past representation to operationalization.

Three different technologies share one name. If you're evaluating a "semantic layer" right now, you need to know which one you're buying.

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Semantic layers were built for a world where humans asked business questions, and the semantic layer helped translate those questions into a SQL query over a…