Opinion

With Consumer Data Models, Who Needs Government Data?

In a data-driven world, pauses in government economic data do more than inconvenience economists, they create dangerous blind spots for investors and business leaders.
diginomica

From data streaming to AI context - how Confluent is re-defining its role in the generative AI era

Confluent is positioning itself as the "context layer for enterprise AI" with new capabilities that aim to solve the problem ...
eLife

Critique of impure reason: Unveiling the reasoning behaviour of medical large language models

A survey of reasoning behaviour in medical large language models uncovers emerging trends, highlights open challenges, and introduces theoretical frameworks that enhance reasoning behaviour ...

From Least Privilege To Least Agency: Building Trust In Enterprise Agentic Platforms Through Intelligent Guardrails

Organizations that recognize agentic platforms as comprehensive enterprise systems position themselves to lead in AI-driven ...
SiliconANGLE

Oracle adds AI capabilities to core database and launches a lakehouse platform

Oracle Corp. today announced the general availability of Oracle AI Database 26ai and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, both aimed at supporting artificial intelligence training and inference across ...
voxelmatters

Masaryk University launches anatomical model database

The 3D printing laboratory, operating within the Simulation Centre of the Faculty of Medicine at Masaryk University (SIMU), has contributed to the development of 3D printing in medicine by launching a ...
The New York Times

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...
MIT Technology Review

NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds. NASA and IBM have released a new open-source machine learning model to help ...
PC World

2.5 billion Gmail users endangered after Google database hack

Original story from August 18th, 2025: If you’re a Gmail user, you need to be particularly careful right now as criminals are currently targeting Gmail accounts. Hackers from a group called ...
Bleeping Computer

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

French fashion giant Chanel is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce data theft attacks. Chanel says the breach was first detected on July 25th after threat ...
IEEE

A Survey of Holistic Approaches for Distributed Database Systems: From Conceptual Model to Deployment

Abstract: Database modeling defines the logical design, structure, and specifications for data storage and access within a DataBase Management System (DBMS), a core component of any Information System ...
Futurism

AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data

As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in artificial intelligence, there’s a massive and growing elephant in the room: that any models trained on web data from after the advent of ChatGPT in 2022 are ...