GitHub calls HQ; Coding upstarts drop new models
Today on Product Saturday: GitHub's bid to become the center of agentic coding, Cursor and Cognition roll out new coding-specific AI models, and the quote of the week.
Now that open data formats are here to stay, unifying them to remove incompatibilities will be a challenge. Delta Lake and Iceberg get all the attention, but tech developed by the creators of Hudi could make it happen.
Today: why security software customers should hold their vendors to a higher standard, the Wiz kids turn down Google, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
The shared-responsibility model is groaning under the weight of the modern security environment. Snowflake's ongoing nightmare should be a wake-up call for any infrastructure or SaaS provider that they need to do more to protect their customers, because the old model is no longer working.
Today: why the decades-old bargain that governed cloud security is showing its age, OpenAI thinks smaller is better, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: How AT&T might have limited the damage from a devastating breach, Google goes shopping for security talent, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: AWS outlines its vision of how generative AI tools could finally deliver on the promise of low-code development, Microsoft cuts a deal with its European cloud rivals, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake admins can now set stronger login security practices for their users, how the AI boom is forcing Google to acknowledge that carbon offsets don't work, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Tech and media leaders are increasingly worried that the push to use generative AI to automate analytical business tasks could produce a generation of workers that never develop the foundation to do the job well at a senior level.
Today: why using generative AI to automate entry-level jobs could backfire, the ransomware part of the Snowflake data leak story is well underway, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
In an interview at the Data Cloud Summit, Ramaswamy described how enterprise customers are working with generative AI, outlined growth opportunities for Snowflake's future, and lamented the "insular" culture at Google that denied it the opportunity to lead the generative AI transition.
Today: Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi promises to unify the open-format split, a former Microsoft employee reveals new details about its broken security culture, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Apple reveals a novel architecture for processing AI workloads using its own chip designs and custom software, the scope of the attack on weakly protected Snowflake customers emerges, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.