Anthropic creates a Skills issue; Oracle jumps in the lake
Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic may have found a way to deliver on the promise of agents, Oracle puts up a lakehouse, and the quote of the week.
Today: How Salesforce hopes to start generating real revenue from AI agents, why the merger of Fivetran and dbt Labs signals the end of an era in data infrastructure, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: dbt Labs' decision to go with a source-available license for its new Fusion product gets a vote of confidence from Snowflake, Windsurf faces a headwind, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: how a emerging group of data companies are unlocking new ways to work with data but running into economic roadblocks, CoreWeave signs two big deals, and this week in enterprise moves.
The speed, flexibility, and efficiency provided by newer data tools have become much more important than simply dumping "Big Data" into a storage facility and running relatively simple analytical queries.