Today's Big Data Pulse
Data‑Engineering Bottlenecks Shift From Legacy Tech to Leadership Gaps
Three 2026 surveys of 1,629 data professionals show that weak leadership direction and poor requirements now account for 40% of top‑bottleneck votes, outpacing legacy systems at 25%. By April, 50% of respondents cite lack of clear ownership as the biggest pain point, while better tooling is mentioned by under 5%.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
Palantir CEO Alex Karp released a nearly hour‑long prerecorded video to address employee concerns about the company's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The discussion avoided detailed product disclosures, instead offering staff the option to sign nondisclosure agreements for one‑on‑one briefings. Karp framed Palantir’s ICE partnership as a non‑partisan effort tied to broader Western power, while acknowledging internal criticism and a lack of full transparency. The video marks the first formal leadership response after weeks of Slack‑based employee pressure.
NIST Awards Over $3M to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Biotech, Semiconductors, Quantum and More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3.19 million in Phase II SBIR grants to eight small businesses across seven states. The funding supports research in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, semiconductor, quantum and other advanced technologies, with each award ranging...
OVHcloud Reveals Bare Metal 2026 Generation of Dedicated Servers
European cloud provider OVHcloud unveiled its Bare Metal 2026 generation of dedicated servers, featuring AMD Ryzen and EPYC Zen 5 processors across four product lines. The Scale 2026 model scales to 384 cores, 3 TB DDR5 memory and up to 98 TB NVMe storage, while...
Hawaii-Based Cloud Provider Servpac Expands Data Center
Servpac, a Hawaii‑based cloud and colocation provider, broke ground on a $13 million expansion at Mililani Technology Park that will double the IT capacity of its MTP Data Center. The project adds a 5‑acre, 150,000 sq ft site and aims to increase cabinet...
Precisely StreetPro Discover Makes Street Data AI-Ready
Precisely introduced StreetPro Discover, a dataset that converts complex street attributes into human‑readable text for large language models. The offering replaces cryptic codes with clear, searchable descriptions, enabling plain‑language queries across delivery, risk, and urban‑planning use cases. By delivering "Agentic‑Ready"...
A Pattern for Intelligent Ticket Routing in ITSM
The article presents an architecture that replaces manual ticket dispatch with a machine‑learning core and a real‑time workload scheduler. Historical ticket data is vectorized with TF‑IDF and classified via Logistic Regression to predict the best resolver. Availability is verified through...
Datadog Initiates Feature Flags to Help Engineering Teams Add New Functionality Quickly and Reliably
Datadog has launched a generally‑available Feature Flags service that tightly couples feature management with its observability platform. The new product links each flag to real‑time APM and RUM telemetry, enabling instant visibility into performance and reliability impacts. Automated canary rollouts,...
See $250 Billion Issuance From Hyperscalers in 2026: Robson
BNP Paribas’s US credit strategist Meghan Robson projects hyperscalers will issue roughly $250 billion of debt in 2026, driven by a 16% jump in AI‑related capex and a shift toward more asset‑heavy business models. She warns that continued issuance will likely widen...
Octopus-Inspired Hydrogel Reveals Hidden Image when Exposed to Temperature Changes or Solvents
Researchers have created an octopus‑inspired hydrogel that acts as a programmable canvas, embedding data directly into its polymer structure during 3‑D printing. When the gel is heated or exposed to a solvent with a different polarity, it swells and alters...
Robo.ai, DaBoss.AI Form J.V to Launch Distributed Embodied AI Data Platform
Robo.ai Inc. and DaBoss.AI Inc. have signed a definitive joint‑venture agreement to create a distributed embodied‑intelligence data platform headquartered in the UAE. The venture will tackle data scale, acquisition cost and compliance challenges by deploying a dual‑engine methodology that blends...
Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-Like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications
Alibaba Tongyi Lab unveiled Zvec, an open‑source, in‑process vector database designed for edge and on‑device retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) workloads. Marketed as the “SQLite of vector databases,” it runs as a library inside the host application, eliminating the need for external...
Arbol and Pollen Systems Partner on Parametric Product for Agricultural & Climate Challenges
Arbol and Pollen Systems, backed by Esri and Omniris, have launched a parametric insurance product that fuses AI‑driven risk models with real‑time satellite, drone and field data. The solution leverages Esri’s GIS platform to deliver location‑aware insights throughout the policy...
Mariia Miakisheva: “The First Thing that Breaks Is the Assumption that the Data Is Already Comparable”
Mariia Miakisheva highlights that multi‑rail payment data is rarely comparable out‑of‑the‑box, creating a major obstacle for real‑time liquidity visibility. She advocates building a standardized, governance‑first finance data layer that captures, maps, and reconciles every cash movement to the management P&L....
Starcloud to Launch AWS Outposts Hardware in Space, Aims to Deploy Fleet of 88,000 Satellites
Starcloud announced it will be the first to launch Amazon Web Services Outposts hardware on a satellite scheduled for October 2026. The company also filed an FCC proposal for an ambitious 88,000‑satellite constellation designed to train and run AI models...
AI Firm Multiverse Said to Hit €1.5 Billion Value With New Funds
Spanish AI software firm Multiverse Computing is negotiating a €500 million financing round. The capital raise would lift its post‑money valuation above €1.5 billion. Sources said the round is slated to close in the first half of 2026 and will introduce new...
Nebius Targets Data Center Development in Birmingham, Alabama
Nebius, a Nasdaq‑listed cloud provider spun out of Yandex, filed for an 80‑acre data‑center project called BHM01 in Birmingham, Alabama, targeting 300 MW of capacity. The development will replace the former Regions Lakeshore Operations Center after the company acquired three Oxmoor...
Similarweb Launches AI Studio: Enterprise Intelligence That Puts Expert Market Research at Every Employee’s Fingertips
Similarweb introduced AI Studio, an AI‑powered enterprise intelligence platform built on its massive digital data repository. The solution offers conversational chat, automated deep‑research reports, and AI‑generated dashboards, allowing any employee to retrieve market insights instantly without specialized training. Beta testing...
How a New Terahertz Antenna Could Unlock One-Terabit 6G Speeds
Researchers from Singapore, France, and the United States unveiled a compact terahertz antenna that leverages topological photonics. The silicon‑based chip, patterned with two sizes of triangular holes, creates a conical beam and achieves roughly 75 % spatial coverage—about 30 times better...
Matia Raises $21M to Help Enterprises Consolidate Their Data Management Operations
Matia announced a $21 million Series A round, led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding above $31 million. The startup offers a unified DataOps platform on AWS that merges ETL, reverse‑ETL, observability and catalog functions into a single interface. It can...
Nebius Agrees to Buy AI Agent Search Company Tavily for $275 Million
Nebius Group NV, the cloud‑computing spin‑off from Yandex, announced a $275 million acquisition of Tavily, a specialist in AI‑agent search technology. Tavily’s software equips autonomous agents with real‑time data retrieval for tasks such as software development and financial trading. The deal...
Most Engagement Data Is Compromised and That’s a Major Security Problem
Most digital engagement metrics are being polluted by bots, synthetic traffic, and identity spoofing, turning them from reliable signals into attack surfaces. Datavault AI is addressing this by building a verification‑first platform that authenticates human actions at the point of...
AI Data Center Stack: System Build, Not Chip Cycle
AI DATA CENTER STACK — this is a systems build, not a chip cycle 👇 COMPUTE & SERVERS: $NVDA Owns accelerated compute end to end. CUDA locks software, NVLink locks topology. Sells architectures, not chips. Switching costs scale with clusters. $AMD Pressure valve...
Simplyblock Provides Postgres Git-Style Branching
Simplyblock has launched Vela, a self‑hostable platform that provides instant, Git‑style branching for PostgreSQL databases without copying data. The solution leverages copy‑on‑write on local NVMe storage and deep Kubernetes integration to deliver high‑performance, low‑latency environments. Vela targets AI workloads that...
Simplyblock Provides Postgres Git-Style Branching
Simplyblock unveiled Vela, a platform that delivers instant PostgreSQL branches using copy‑on‑write technology on its high‑performance block storage. The solution eliminates traditional snapshot‑restore cycles, offering developers rapid, cost‑effective cloning without data duplication. Vela is cloud‑agnostic, Kubernetes‑native, and supports NVMe/TCP and...
Former Sugar Refinery Near Caen, France, Could Become AI Data Center
A former 33‑hectare sugar refinery near Caen is slated for acquisition by Brown Fields, which plans to transform the derelict site into an AI data center. The project, estimated at €15‑€20 million, benefits from an existing 220 kV power line and a...
Decompose Sales Data to Distinguish Real Growth
Your manager asks: "Sales jumped in December — is that a real growth or seasonality?" You pull up a line chart. Sure, it shows the spike. But it doesn't tell you why. And that's what they actually want to know. This is where time...
Ark Data Centres' Campus Extension Approved by Local Authorities in Wiltshire, UK
Ark Data Centres received conditional approval to build an 18‑meter‑tall, 27,350 sqm data centre on Westwell Roads in Corsham, Wiltshire, after an 18‑month planning saga. The new facility will be the seventh Ark campus at the Spring Park site, joining five existing...
Energy Vault Partners with Peak Energy to Develop Energy Storage Architecture for AI Data Centers
Energy Vault has entered a strategic partnership with Peak Energy to create a dedicated energy‑storage architecture for AI‑focused data centers. The solution merges Peak’s sodium‑ion battery technology with Energy Vault’s Vault OS software and system design. A supply agreement secures 1.5 GWh...
Telstra to Cut More than 200 Jobs Amid AI Push
Telstra will cut more than 200 jobs at its AI joint venture with Accenture, moving some functions to India. The AU$700 million partnership, 60% owned by Accenture and 40% by Telstra, is intended to accelerate the carrier’s data and AI roadmap....
IBM Refreshes FlashSystem Lineup with Faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 Arrays
IBM announced a refresh of its FlashSystem all‑flash storage family, introducing the 5600, 7600 and 9600 models that replace the 5300, 7300 and 9500 generations. The new arrays feature Gen 5 FlashCore Modules with up to 105.6 TB per drive and a...
IBM Refreshes FlashSystem Lineup with Faster 5600, 7600, and 9600 Arrays
IBM has refreshed its FlashSystem all‑flash portfolio, introducing the 5600, 7600 and 9600 arrays to replace the 5300, 7300 and 9500 models. The new 9600 delivers up to 6.3 million IOPS, 3.3 PB raw capacity and a compact 2‑RU chassis, while the...
Fermi America Receives First Natural Gas Turbines for up to 11GW Data Center Campus in Amarillo, Texas
Fermi America has taken delivery of six Siemens SGT‑800 natural‑gas turbines, each rated 50‑62 MW, marking the first power‑generation equipment for its proposed up‑to‑11 GW data‑center campus in Amarillo, Texas. The turbines will supply roughly one‑third of the first gigawatt of electricity...
Immersion Cooling Firm Submer Partners with Indian Real Estate Developer Anant Raj for Data Center Venture
Submer, a Spain‑based immersion‑cooling specialist, announced a partnership with Anant Raj Cloud, the data‑center arm of Indian real‑estate developer Anant Raj, to build AI‑ready data centers across India. The firms signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will be exchanged at the India AI...
Synergy: Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Spend Jumps $12bn in Q4 2025
Enterprise cloud infrastructure spending surged by $12 billion in Q4 2025, marking a 30 percent year‑on‑year increase and the ninth straight quarter of accelerating growth. Total cloud‑related revenue for 2025 reached $419 billion, with $119.1 billion generated in the final quarter alone. Generative AI was...
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Ré Dubhthaigh of Dublin City Council highlights that place data is far more complex than simple addresses, encompassing centuries of urban growth. The council must navigate 800+ years of layered, messy data while delivering real services, not starting from a...
Viettel Deploys Nvidia DGX B200 System at Hoa Lac High Tech Park in Hanoi
Vietnam’s military‑backed telecom operator Viettel has commissioned an Nvidia DGX B200 system at its Hoa Lac High Tech Park data centre in Hanoi. The air‑cooled rack‑mounted platform houses eight B200 Tensor Core GPUs and dual Intel Xeon CPUs, delivering petaflop‑scale performance. Viettel’s...
AI Infrastructure Drives Hardware Winners in Hyperscaler CAPEX
Hardware winners of the $600B+ hyperscaler CAPEX wave 🧵 Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are prioritizing compute, power, and networking control into 2026. ~75% of spend is AI infrastructure. Price sensitivity is low. Supply is tight. This is a vendor-selection cycle,...
Executive Backing Turns Data Governance From Reactive to Strategic
Data governance is critical but tough. Without executive support, clear roles, and resources, committees stay reactive. Done right, it drives strategic decisions and strengthens both insights and cyber resilience. https://t.co/brZ80xsiyu
FCC Seeks Comment on SpaceX's Million Orbital Data Center Plan
The Federal Communications Commission has opened a public comment period on SpaceX’s proposal to launch a constellation of one million data‑center satellites. SpaceX argues that, once its reusable Starship is operational, the fleet could deliver 100 gigawatts of AI compute power...
Sponsored: The Evolving AI Data Center: Options Multiply, Constraints Grow, and Infrastructure Planning Is Even More Critical
AI data centers are no longer monolithic; diverse models, accelerators, and cooling methods force operators to tailor connectivity. Optical links have become a strategic pillar, matching power and cooling in importance, especially as rack density and fault domains grow. Multi‑terabit...
G42 Expands Global AI Ambitions with Sovereign Cloud Partnership in Vietnam
Abu Dhabi‑based G42 has inked a Framework Cooperation Agreement with Vietnam’s FPT Corporation and Viet Thai Group to build sovereign AI and hyperscale cloud infrastructure. The deal, backed by up to $1 bn in consumption commitments, will see three new datacenters...
Ahmed Gouda: Monitoring Query Plans with Pgwatch and Pg_stat_plans
The PostgreSQL ecosystem now includes the pg_stat_plans extension, which aggregates statistics at the query‑plan level rather than the raw SQL text. The article demonstrates how to combine pg_stat_plans with the pgwatch monitoring framework by defining a custom metric that pulls...
Coupang Obstructed Korean Probe Into Data Breach, Ministry Says
Coupang, South Korea’s largest e‑commerce platform, obstructed a government investigation into a massive data breach by deleting access logs and other evidence. The Ministry of Science and ICT reports that a former staff engineer exfiltrated 25.6 terabytes of personal information, affecting...
Inside Godrej Enterprises Group’s Push to Become an Intelligence-First Enterprise
Godrej Enterprises Group, led by Chief Digital and Information Officer Vijay Balakrishnan, is shifting to an intelligence‑first enterprise by building a unified AI backbone called Amethyst. The conglomerate has earmarked more than ₹1,200 crore over the next three to five years...
Memory Chip Crunch Ripples Through Markets, With Worse to Come
Memory chip prices have surged sharply over recent months, creating a stark divide between winners and losers in the equity market. Device manufacturers such as Nintendo, major PC brands, and Apple suppliers are seeing share declines as cost pressures erode...
Intel Has Abandoned Its Controversial "On Demand" Processor Technology
Intel has announced that it will no longer pursue its Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) initiative, popularly known as “On Demand.” The technology, unveiled in 2021, promised to let OEMs unlock or lock specific CPU capabilities based on a customer’s price...
AWS Networking Boss Talks Roadmap, Hollow Core Fiber, and Data Center Future
Amazon Web Services announced a $200 billion capital‑expenditure plan through 2026, with networking as a primary focus to support its AI push. The company is trialing hollow‑core fiber in a handful of locations to extend latency‑critical inter‑zone links, while a newly...
Fractile Expansion Demonstrates UK Growth Opportunity
UK chip startup Fractile announced a £100 million expansion across its Bristol and London sites, creating a national industrial hardware engineering hub and adding 40 new roles to its 70‑person team. The company claims its in‑memory compute architecture can run AI...
Harvey Reportedly Raising at $11B Valuation Just Months After It Hit $8B
Harvey, the legal‑AI startup, is reportedly negotiating a $200 million raise that would push its valuation to $11 billion, led by Sequoia and Singapore’s GIC. This follows a rapid funding series: a $300 million Series D at $3 billion, a $300 million Series E at $5 billion, and...
Oracle Shares Surge as Big Tech Spending Eases Software Worries
Oracle Corp.’s shares jumped up to 12% on Monday, marking the stock’s strongest intraday gain since September 10. The rally was sparked by news that U.S. tech giants, led by Amazon’s $200 billion capex commitment for data centers and chips, are accelerating...