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Power Platform Sept 2026: AI Agent App Building Now Live
Microsoft's Sept 2026 Power Platform update: AI-driven canvas app building now GA, natural language model apps, and Copilot Studio in Power Automate.
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OpenAI's Data Agent Connects Plain English to BI Tools
OpenAI launched a Data Agent in ChatGPT Work that connects to company data and builds dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake — no SQL required.
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Teradata Brings AI to Microsoft OneLake Without ETL
Teradata's Autonomous Knowledge Platform now connects to Microsoft OneLake without data movement, unlocking AI analytics on live data.
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Power BI August 2026: Theme Pane GA and Smarter Refresh
Microsoft's August 2026 Power BI update delivers a polished Theme pane, granular semantic model refresh, and OneLake image URLs in visuals.
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Databricks Ventures Invests in UK Analytics Consultancy
Databricks Ventures backed Advancing Analytics, its first UK consulting firm investment, alongside Tercera, signalling where data platforms are heading.
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Data Teams Are Growing With AI, But Roles Are Shifting
Visier's analysis of 3.6 million employee records shows data analytics headcount up 49%, but AI Engineers are up 251% while data scientists drop 32%.
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53% of Enterprises Fail to Give AI the Context It Needs
Alteryx's 2026 IT Leader Research: 53% of organizations struggle to give AI the business context it needs, even as 80% plan to increase AI spending.
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The Enterprise AI Gap Just Got 8x Wider
An OpenAI study of 17M enterprise messages finds the AI performance gap between top users and typical companies tripled in 8 months.
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SAP and Google Kill the Data Pipeline for Enterprise AI
SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery goes GA, letting enterprises query live SAP data in BigQuery with no replication — real-time AI on operational data.
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SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery: Zero-Copy Data Goes Live
SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery is now generally available, giving enterprises live access to SAP data inside BigQuery without replication or complex pipelines.
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Workers Spend 6.4 Hours a Week Babysitting AI
Glean's Work AI Index reveals the 'botsitting' paradox: AI saves 11 hours weekly but workers spend 6.4 hours managing AI instead of using it.
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SAP Report: AI Now Handles 30% of Tasks, ROI Is Climbing
SAP and Oxford Economics surveyed 2,600 leaders in 13 countries. AI now supports 30% of business tasks, but only 3% say they are ready for agentic AI.
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Power BI July 2026: Updates Data Teams Actually Care About
TMDL editing moves to the browser, conditional formatting reaches line charts, and a file picker deprecation you need to act on before October.
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Microsoft Fabric Goes Agentic: Operations Agents Now GA
Fabric Operations Agents hit GA in July 2026. Fabric IQ replaces RAG pipelines for agent memory, and Azure Monitor data lands in OneLake for agentic analytics.
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Snowflake Launches Cortex AI Gateway for Agent Governance
Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway gives enterprises a single control layer to monitor AI agent activity, track token spend, and enforce spending limits.
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Supermetrics Studio Turns AI Dashboards Into Live Reports
Supermetrics Studio lets teams push Claude or ChatGPT-built dashboards into a governed workspace with live data, version control, and campaign write-back.
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Gartner: Global AI Market Hits $64 Billion in 2026, Up 63%
Gartner forecasts worldwide spending on AI platforms and models will reach $64 billion in 2026, a 63% jump driven by GenAI and domain-specific models.
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Google's TabFM: Predict on Tables Without Training a Model
Google Research released TabFM, a zero-shot foundation model for tabular data that works inside BigQuery via a single SQL command. No ML expertise required.
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NVIDIA and SK Group Sign $500B+ AI Factory Deal
NVIDIA and SK Group announced a $500B+ AI infrastructure partnership July 25, with a 2GW AI factory and a multi-year HBM4 memory co-development deal.
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Google Cloud Up 82%: Enterprise AI Is No Longer a Bet
Alphabet's Q2 2026 results show Google Cloud at $24.8B, up 82%, with 90% of the Fortune 100 running Gemini. The enterprise AI adoption story now has numbers.
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Databricks and Microsoft Deepen AI Partnership to 2030
Databricks and Microsoft extend their partnership into the 2030s, integrating Genie and Unity AI Gateway to ground enterprise AI in real business data.
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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8: Largest Open-Weight AI Model Yet
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max at the World AI Conference in Shanghai with 2.4 trillion parameters and open-weight weights coming soon.
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SAP Completes Prior Labs Deal With €1B Bet on Tabular AI
SAP completed its acquisition of Prior Labs on July 17, 2026, pledging over €1 billion to build Europe's leading frontier AI lab for structured business data.
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Databricks Hits $188B Valuation in New $3B Funding Round
Databricks raises $3B at a $188B valuation led by Coatue, up 40% from February, to accelerate Genie, Unity AI Gateway, and Lakebase.
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Cloudera and VAST Data Launch AI Factory for Enterprises
Cloudera and VAST Data partner to deliver a unified AI factory that prevents data pipeline bottlenecks from starving enterprise GPU clusters.
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Cloudflare and OpenAI Rewire How AI Finds Your Content
A new Cloudflare-OpenAI research pilot will use real-time network signals to improve AI search indexing, signalling a shift toward AI-native content discovery.
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Rippling's Data Cloud Takes Aim at the BI Stack
Rippling Data Cloud bundles AI dashboards, data connectors, and workforce intelligence into one platform, challenging Tableau and Power BI on their home turf.
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DeepSeek API: Migrate Before July 24 or Integrations Break
DeepSeek retires deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner on July 24 at 15:59 UTC. Old model names stop responding. Here's the migration path.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro: July 17 Launch After Google's Full Rebuild
Google rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro from scratch to fix math and reasoning gaps. Here's what enterprise teams should know before the July 17 launch.
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Power BI June 2026: DAX UDFs Are Generally Available
Microsoft ships DAX User-Defined Functions as generally available, plus a Desktop Bridge that lets AI agents iterate directly on live reports.
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AI Spend Hits $2.59 Trillion. ROI Lags Behind.
Gartner forecasts AI spend up 47% in 2026, yet most enterprises cannot prove returns. The companies winning have changed their approach.
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Sakana Fugu Beats Claude and GPT Without Export Controls
Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu Ultra, beating Claude Opus and GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks while explicitly advertising freedom from export restrictions.
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AI Agent Adoption More Than Doubled in Q2, KPMG Finds
KPMG's Q2 2026 AI Pulse survey shows enterprise AI agent adoption surged from 23% to 56% in one quarter, with multi-agent orchestration doubling.
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Gartner: AI Agents Lead Data and Analytics in 2026
Gartner's June 2026 report names AI agents, semantics, and platform convergence as the forces reshaping enterprise data work, with real numbers attached.
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Power BI's June Update Puts AI Agents Inside Your Reports
Microsoft's June 2026 Power BI update brings the Desktop Bridge, Agent Skills, and Copilot modeling. AI agents are now inside the analytics layer.
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AI Adoption in Australian Business: What's Actually Working
Australian businesses are adopting AI faster than expected in 2026. Here's what works across sectors and what regulators actually care about.
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Golden Analytics: $14M Extension and Public Beta Launch
The AI-native BI startup hits $21M total funding led by Insight Partners, with 1,000 companies on the waitlist including 1 in 6 from the Fortune 500.
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Microsoft Fabric Adds Claude and Copilot Agent Skills
Microsoft built open-source Fabric Skills that let Claude, GitHub Copilot, and CLI tools directly author and interact with Power BI reports and Fabric data.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro: 2M Tokens, Deep Think Coming Soon
Google's most powerful model yet approaches GA with a 2M-token context window and Deep Think reasoning mode that will reshape enterprise data work.
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Power BI Agent Skills: AI Builds Reports at Build 2026
Microsoft's Agent Skills for Power BI lets AI build complete reports and semantic models from natural language, announced at Build 2026.
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OpenAI Gives Codex Six Enterprise Plugins for Office Work
OpenAI's Codex now ships with six job-specific plugins connecting 62 business apps across data analytics, sales, finance, and design.
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GA4 Now Tracks AI Chatbot Traffic as Its Own Channel
Google Analytics 4 added a native AI Assistant channel on May 13, tracking clicks from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude automatically, no setup needed.
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Gartner: AI Spending Hits $2.59 Trillion in 2026, Up 47%
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending reaches $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% jump, with 2026 named the inflection year for enterprise adoption.
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Data Analysts Aren't Being Replaced by AI. They're Promoted.
After working with 220,000 data professionals across 50+ countries, I can tell you the AI replacement narrative has the story completely backwards.
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Alteryx Turns Data Workflows Into AI Agents at Inspire 2026
Alteryx launched Agent Studio and an MCP Server, letting analysts convert existing analytics workflows into autonomous AI agents without rewriting code.
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Power BI May 2026 Update: Visual Calculations Now Live
Visual Calculations reach GA, PBIR replaces PBIX as default, and Copilot Summarize arrives. The May 2026 update reshapes how teams build reports.
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Gartner: Data Governance Is AI's Single Point of Failure
Gartner's London data summit wrapped today with a pointed message for 3,000 CDAOs: poor data governance will be the primary reason AI investments fail.
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Tableau Next Turns Business Intelligence Into Agentic AI
Salesforce launched Tableau Next at TC26, replacing static dashboards with AI agents that surface insights before you know to ask.
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MIT Iceberg Index: AI Can Handle 11.7% of US Labor
MIT's new Iceberg Index finds AI can already handle 11.7% of US labor at $1.2T in wages, but the impact is a rising tide, not a crashing wave.
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DeepSeek V4: Frontier-Level AI at a Fraction of the Price
DeepSeek's V4 preview lands with a 1M-token context window, 1.6T parameters, and pricing that undercuts GPT-5.5 by more than 95%.
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NVIDIA: 88% of Enterprises Now See Revenue Gains From AI
NVIDIA's State of AI 2026 report of 3,200 businesses finds AI ROI is no longer theoretical. 88% report revenue gains and 87% report cost savings.
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TextQL Raises $17M: Blackstone Bets on Natural Language
Blackstone leads a $17M round in TextQL, the platform letting executives query complex enterprise data in plain English without writing SQL.
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Gartner: AI Winners Invest 4x More in Data Foundations
A new Gartner study finds organizations with successful AI initiatives invest up to 4x more in data, analytics, and governance foundations.
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Qlik Connect 2026: Agentic AI Is Closer Than You Think
Qlik's annual conference wrapped April 15 with major announcements: agentic analytics GA, a ServiceNow partnership, and AI-native data engineering tools.
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Stanford's 2026 AI Index: What Business Leaders Must Know
Stanford HAI's annual AI Index confirms Gen AI adoption outpaced the internet. But safety is falling behind capability, and the productivity gap is widening.
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dbt Labs: AI Acceleration Is Outrunning Data Governance
71% of data professionals worry about AI hallucinations reaching stakeholders as dbt Labs finds governance lagging behind AI acceleration.
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Stanford AI Index 2026: China Has Nearly Closed the US Lead
Stanford HAI's annual AI Index finds the US-China performance gap has narrowed to just 2.7%, while AI talent flows to the US have collapsed 80% in one year.
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PwC: 74% of AI Gains Go to Just 20% of Companies
PwC's 2026 AI Performance Study reveals a stark split in enterprise AI: top performers generate 7.2x more value by betting on growth, not just efficiency.
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Former Tableau CPO Launches Golden Analytics AI-Native BI
Francois Ajenstat, ex-Tableau CPO, debuts an AI-native BI platform with $7M in seed funding and a 'Slider of Autonomy' design philosophy.
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Enterprises Are Ditching Legacy BI. Sigma Hits $200M ARR.
Sigma Computing doubled revenue year-over-year to $200M ARR as 2,000+ businesses replace traditional BI with AI-native analytics on the data warehouse.
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Domo Bridges Enterprise BI and AI Agents With MCP
Domo launched an AI Agent Builder and MCP Server at Domopalooza 2026, letting external AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT query live business data.
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Only 11% of Enterprises Are Scaling AI Agents, KPMG Finds
KPMG's first Global AI Pulse survey reveals most businesses are spending big on AI but only a fraction are getting enterprise-wide results.
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Gartner's Top Data and Analytics Predictions for 2026
Gartner's 2026 D&A predictions: AI agents will generate 10x more data by 2029, and 75% of hiring processes will require AI proficiency by 2027.
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