Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs

Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says ...

Before connecting to a production DB with MCP, do not assume a 'success response' means success—8 items for a Query Execution Contract

"Show me the confirmed orders from last month, broken down by department."The AI connected to the database, executed the SQL, ...
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Oracle announces AI planning engine and semantic layer to stop agents misreading business data

Oracle Business Semantic Layer and Business Simulation Engine were announced at Oracle AI World Las Vegas 2026, giving ...
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How to Eliminate Data Silos Without Replacing Your ERP, CRM, or Legacy Databases

Your Salesforce CRM says a customer is worth $2.4 million. Your ERP reports $1.8 million in recognized revenue. Finance has another number, and your AI analytics tool confidently reports a fourth.

Oracle Advances Autonomous AI Lakehouse with Business Semantic Layer and Expanded Support for Iceberg Data

New capabilities ground AI agents in business context, enable multidimensional simulations, and govern data consistently ...
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Oracle adds a semantic layer to ground AI agents in the business context

The new capability gives AI agents and analytics applications a shared understanding of enterprise metrics, hierarchies, and ...

For those stuck on the Google Skills BigQuery lab: How I learned to 'not take instructions literally' to get a perfect score

When I opened Gmail this morning, I received an email from the Google Skills team saying, 'Task 2 of Explore Data with Gemini ...