The need for a central data repository for enterprise analytics and gen AI has made the data lakehouse the default choice for enterprise data. Meanwhile, the emergence of open table standards makes the shift easier and reduces vendor lock-in for enterprises while also allowing for better integration between lakehouses and other enterprise systems and service providers.
Data lakehouses combine…
This stream monitoring weir at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire measures and regulates streamflow for consistent data collection. It turns a natural system into a repeatable measurement record, a record that may be lost if a successor stewardship plan is not required ahead of any reduction in the facility’s output or outreach. Credit: Anthony Veltri
AI is useless without access to abundant and accurate data. Unfortunately, many enterprises are saddled with data that’s stored in a way that’s unusable for AI applications.
AI data incompatibility is widespread, even among organizations actively investing in AI, says Daren Campbell, tax technology and transformation leader at business advisory firm EY Americas.
“Adoption of generative and…
Industrial chemicals, such as flame retardants and plasticizers, have been detected in areas of the ocean once considered pristine, such as the Mergui Archipelago off Myanmar, new research reports. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 5
Google’s local water consumption around its The Dalles, Ore., data center jumped 26% in 2005. Credit: Google Earth
Google Earth image of the site of the 8 March 2026 garbage landslide at the Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Processing Site in Bekasi, Indonesia.
The Rubin Observatory sits at 2,647 meters (8,684 feet) above sea level at Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), CC BY 4.0
Observability has always had a data quality problem. AI coding agents just made it catastrophically worse. Shimmy sits down with the co-founders of Sawmills to dig into why unmanaged telemetry is the unglamorous DevOps crisis that is quietly killing budgets — and what an agentic telemetry management platform actually does about it.
A harmful algal bloom fills the Millstone River in New Jersey. Timely ecological forecasts of such hazards can help local authorities issue warnings to protect residents. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain