Snowflake And OpenAI Strike $200 Million Deal To Power Enterprise AI Agents

The deal positions Snowflake to compete with Databricks in AI while giving OpenAI enterprise distribution beyond Microsoft’s ecosystem.

Databricks Says AI Agents Now Build 80% Of Enterprise Databases

Databricks claims AI agents have quietly taken over enterprise database creation, pushing its Lakebase product to the center of agentic application development.
InfoWorld

Databricks adds MemAlign to MLflow to cut cost and latency of LLM evaluation

By replacing repeated fine‑tuning with a dual‑memory system, MemAlign reduces the cost and instability of training LLM judges ...
THE Journal

Snowflake Expands AI Stack With $200M OpenAI Partnership

Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership that will make OpenAI models available on Snowflake's platform.
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...
Harvard Business Review

What Is Disruptive Innovation?

Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain. by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor and Rory McDonald Please enjoy this HBR Classic. Clayton M.
The New Yorker

How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism

In 2008, Jeremy Neuner and Ryan Coonerty, two city-hall employees in Santa Cruz, California, decided to open a co-working space. They leased a cavernous building a few steps from a surf shop and a sex ...