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Google has added Conversational Analytics to its BigQuery data warehouse, which it says will allow enterprise data teams and business users to ask questions about data in natural language, in turn speeding up data analytics for AI use cases. The agent, currently in preview, can be found under the Conversations tab in the new Agents Hub inside BigQuery and activated by pointing to data tables. It …

The cloud isn’t new, but the way enterprises use it keeps evolving. AI workloads, new platform services, and tighter governance mean teams can’t rely on outdated knowledge. The real issue isn’t ignorance but drift. Assumptions once valid are now proven wrong through outages, security rework, or surprise bills. That’s why free, on-demand courses have become strategically advantageous. They’re fric…

I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has expired. We have now entered the second quarter of the 21st century. These are the opening acts of the millennium. Fortunately, it looks like AI 2027 may not pan out and we may, as yet, avoid LLM doom. We almost definitely won’t have a superintelligence that absorbs the power grid for its own purposes. And furthermore, we will probably sti…

Findings from a new study by Epoch AI, a non-profit research institute, appear to poke major holes in the notion that AI firms, and specifically OpenAI, will eventually become profitable. The research paper written by Jaime Sevilla, Hannah Petrovic and Anson Ho, suggests that while running an AI model may generate enough revenue to cover its own R&D costs, any profit is outweighed by the cost of …

Microsoft has launched a public preview of GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++. The company had previewed C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot in December. Both previews are available via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. GitHub Copilot app modernization for C++ helps developers upgrade C++ projects to newer MSVC Build Tools versions. The public preview was announced January 27. …

Prompt engineering is the process of crafting inputs, or prompts, to a generative AI system that lead to the system producing better outputs. That sounds simple on the surface, but because LLMs and other gen AI tools are complex, nondeterministic “ black box ” systems, it’s a devilishly tricky process that involves trial and error and a certain degree of guesswork — and that’s before you even con…

Suse has unveiled a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment tool, with the intention of helping customers understand the gaps in their compliance with the 2025 EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Launched January 29, the tool is a web-based, self-service discovery platform designed to evaluate an organization’s cloud infrastructure against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework. The assessment provid…

Brotli is one of the most widely used but least-known compression formats ever devised, long incorporated into all major browsers and web content delivery networks (CDNs). Despite that, it isn’t yet used in the creation and display of PDF documents, which since version 1.2 in 1996 have relied on the FlateDecode filter also used to compress .zip and .png files. That is about to change, though, wit…

Apiiro has launched Guardian Agent, an AI agent that helps prevent coding agents from generating vulnerable or non-compliant code by rewriting developer prompts into secure prompts, according to the company. Introduced January 28 , Guardian Agent is now in a private preview stage . Describing the technology as introducing a fundamentally new paradigm for securing software in the era of AI-driven …

Angular is a cohesive, all-in-one reactive framework for web development. It is one of the larger reactive frameworks, focused on being a single architectural system that handles all your web development needs under one idiom. While Angular was long criticized for being heavyweight as compared to React , many of those issues were addressed in Angular 19 . Modern Angular is built around the Signal…

“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Abraham Maslow, 1966 Microservices provide many benefits for building business services, such as independent tools, technologies, languages, release cycles, and full control over your dependencies. However, microservices aren’t the solution for every problem. As Mr. Maslow observed, if we limit ou…

For years, CSOs have worried about their IT infrastructure being used for unauthorized cryptomining. Now, say researchers, they’d better start worrying about crooks hijacking and reselling access to exposed corporate AI infrastructure. In a report released Wednesday , researchers at Pillar Security say they have discovered campaigns at scale going after exposed large language model (LLM) and MCP …

LiteRT , Google’s “modern” on-device inference framework evolved from TensorFlow Lite (TFLite), has introduced advanced acceleration capabilities, based on a ”next-generation GPU engine” called ML Drift . Google said that this milestone, announced January 28 , solidifies LiteRT as a universal on-device framework and represents a significant leap over its predecessor, TFLite. LiteRT delivers 1.4x …

Teradata has expanded the agent-building capabilities it launched last year into a full-blown toolkit, which it says will help enterprises address the challenge of moving AI agents beyond pilots into production-grade deployments. Branded as Enterprise AgentStack , the expanded toolkit layers AgentEngine and AgentOps onto Teradata’s existing Agent Builder , which includes a user interface for buil…

PyPy , an alternative runtime for Python , uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython , the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has often come at the cost of compatibility with the rest of the Python ecosystem, particularly C extensions. And while those issues are improving, the PyPy runtime itself often lags in keeping up to…