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: Ahead of this year's Snowflake/Databricks annual events, a look at the push to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg, Salesforce snaps up Informatica, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.