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Immuta launches Agentic Data Access module for AI agents
Immuta unveiled an Agentic Data Access module that lets autonomous AI agents retrieve enterprise data in real time while enforcing governance policies. The module treats agents as first‑class data users, applying least‑access and zero standing privileges and providing audit trails, all built on Immuta’s policy engine.
In this episode, Tim Berglund interviews Sophie Blee‑Goldman of Responsive about her journey from a Google internship to becoming a specialist in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. They dive into the technical challenge of scaling a Kafka Streams application for a hyper‑growth customer that was approaching partition‑based limits, discussing strategies for re‑architecting topology, managing state stores, and leveraging Kubernetes for resilient deployments. Sophie shares practical lessons on monitoring, back‑pressure handling, and the trade‑offs between scaling horizontally versus redesigning the data model. The conversation also touches on career advice, emphasizing the value of hands‑on experimentation and cross‑functional collaboration in the streaming ecosystem.
The article clarifies the distinct responsibilities of data center technicians and data center engineers, highlighting that technicians focus on hands‑on hardware installation, cabling, and component‑level maintenance, while engineers design, plan, and manage the overall infrastructure. It notes education gaps—engineers typically...
Beyond The Hype: How #Healthcare #AI Makes The Next Leap In 2026 by Adam Farren @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/WZFfHRkG9b #MedTech #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/MxMMb1Zduh
Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and water use. I’m going to stake out an unpopular view: These concerns are overstated, and blocking data center construction will actually hurt...
Data centers are outpacing the broader commercial‑real‑estate market as hyperscalers and emerging neo‑clouds lock in record leasing and absorption levels across the U.S. and Europe. Power availability, not tenant appetite, is the primary bottleneck, steering new builds toward regions with...
President Trump and governors of key Northeastern states are pushing an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would obligate major tech firms to fund new power plants through 15‑year contracts. The plan aims to secure roughly $15 billion of generation capacity for...
Apache Arrow’s ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) introduces a modern, columnar‑native driver that can replace or complement traditional ODBC/JDBC stacks. By moving Arrow RecordBatches end‑to‑end, it eliminates row‑by‑row marshaling and dramatically reduces serialization overhead. Benchmarks show Python ADBC achieving roughly 275 k...
The article reviews the five most diverse research‑dataset platforms for 2026—Dimensions, Scopus, Web of Science, Lens, and OpenAlex—highlighting each service’s unique data breadth and analytical tools. Dimensions links publications, grants, and patents with AI‑driven search; Scopus offers a curated 100 million‑record...
In this episode Ben Lorica interviews Ben Luria, CEO and co‑founder of Hirundo, about the rising importance of machine unlearning for enterprise AI systems. They explore how organizations can remove or forget specific data points from trained models to comply...
In this episode, Kevin Ball talks with Institute for Justice attorney Michael Soyfer about the rapid expansion of surveillance technologies such as automated license‑plate readers, facial‑recognition cameras, and predictive policing tools across U.S. municipalities. Soyfer explains the Fourth Amendment challenges...
What We Didn’t See At CES 2026, And Why That Matters #CES2026 dazzled with AI, robots and smart devices, yet left critical questions unanswered around #jobs , #skills , #sustainability , #governance , #privacy , and real business value. This...
Turn chaos into clean cuts. Here’s the aha moment that stopped me: I can type a single phrase like “all cyclists” and instantly detect, segment, and track every one of them, even as the scene changes. No pipelines. No re-training. No frame-by-frame pain. This...
CJ Darcl Logistics in India has deployed AI‑enabled driver assistance, fatigue monitoring, and its cloud‑native MoveX platform to bring operational discipline to its complex multimodal supply chain. Within three months, harsh braking and overspeeding fell 35% and 28% respectively, violations...
Xero has launched an AI‑powered analytics suite aimed at small‑business owners, a move driven by chief product and technology officer Diya Jolly. After acquiring Syft and Melio, Xero now offers customizable dashboards, cash‑flow managers, health scorecards and instant AI‑generated insights....
Seeing Is Counting: Object Counting Powered by Computer Vision by @Ultralytics #Innovation #EmergingTech #TechForGood https://t.co/ZsIsqh5MrO
2026 is the year when AI stops being about promise and starts being judged on outcomes. In this short clip, I discuss with Pascal Brier why we are entering the “year of truth” for AI. After years of pilots, proofs-of-concept,...
In this episode, Kevin Appleby and data‑analytics expert David Whitcombe explain how a "data cube"—a unified, governed layer that pulls together ERP, CRM, and operational data—gives CFOs a single source of truth that drives higher valuations in private‑equity exits. By...
In this episode Michael Kennedy talks with Vincent Warmerdam about DiskCache, a SQLite‑backed, dictionary‑like cache that persists to disk and works safely across threads and processes. They explain how DiskCache’s @cache.memoize decorator and FanoutCache sharding enable cheap, high‑performance caching for...
Telexistence Introduces Large-Scale #Robotic Motion Data Factory for #AI Training via @ZappyZappy7 #ArtificialIntelligence #MI #ML #Tech #Innovation https://t.co/Q43zRYjqCI
Navi is treating artificial intelligence as core infrastructure rather than a peripheral feature, aiming to embed AI across its UPI, lending, insurance and mutual‑fund businesses within the next 12‑18 months. The company reports that its GenAI‑powered bot AISHA now resolves...
In this episode, Viktor Gamov interviews Dhiraj Suri of Confluent about his journey from a software developer at NetApp to a systems engineering leader focused on stream governance. Dhiraj explains how he tackled the challenge of integrating fragmented tools at...
Build Or Buy AI Agents: Why This Choice Matters More Than You Think #AI agents are moving fast from experimentation to everyday #business use, forcing #leaders to make critical #decisions about how they deploy them. This article explores the real...
Robot Dog Deployed for #Data Collection in U.S. Semiconductor Production by @TXInstruments #AI #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #Innovation https://t.co/wYgIfCiEe4
In this episode, Tristan Handy talks with Lauren Anderson, head of Okta's enterprise data platform, about how identity underpins the emerging challenges of AI agents and open data lakes. Lauren explains the need for central governance and a shared semantic...
