Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers
Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition...
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Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its Apple and Play Store...
With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic
Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show...
AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense
Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR, and IT...
UK Watchdog Weighs Probe Into Home Office's OpenAI-Backed Asylum Tools
Britain's immigration inspectorate may open an investigation into the Home Office's use of generative AI to process asylum claims, WIRED has learned. The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and...
Columnar's Year of ADBC Drivers: Zero-Copy Promises Meet Messy Type Systems
At a dbt Summit 2026 breakout session, Matt Topol, co-founder of Columnar and a member of the Apache Arrow, Iceberg, and Magpie project management committees, shared what a year of building ADBC...
Sweetwater uses Datadog to catch failing dbt pipelines before users notice
Sweetwater Sound, the country's largest online music gear retailer, has built a proactive data observability practice around Datadog as it scaled its dbt-based data platform, according to Daniel...
Anthropic Warns Gas Supply Squeeze Threatens Its AI Buildout
Anthropic has named reliance on private natural gas plants as one of its biggest near-term risks, warning in its IPO filing that the data center gas buildout could push prices higher in some regions...
Researchers Detail Three AI-Assisted Attacks on Japanese Organizations, Including 44-Agent Hacking Platform
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three attacks on Japanese organizations in which artificial intelligence played a central role - sometimes driving the operation, sometimes assisting a human....
DoorDash Took Merchant Analytics From Prototype to Thousands of Users in Weeks
DoorDash scaled a merchant-facing analytics product from a new use case to thousands of users within a few weeks, according to Harsha Reddy, a senior engineering leader who heads Data End-User...
AWS and dbt Labs show how a governed semantic layer stopped an AI agent's $3.5M revenue error
An AI agent querying production data on its own can produce answers that look right and are badly wrong. At dbt Summit 2026, AWS solutions architects Neela Kulkarni and Venkatesh Aravamudan walked...
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Anthropic's IPO Filing Tempers Its Grand Biology Claims
Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei have spent years promising that its AI models will transform biology and drug discovery. Monday's IPO filing tells a more measured story. The company acknowledged it...
UEFI Firmware Flaw Exposes Servers to Pre-Boot Code Execution
A memory-corruption vulnerability in boot-time firmware used by most of the world's server vendors and data centers has been made public ahead of schedule, handing attackers a roadmap to exploit it....
Anthropic's IPO Governance Leaves Public Shareholders With Little Sway
Anthropic, founded in 2021 with a mission to keep AI under human control, is heading toward an initial public offering. But the people who buy its stock on public markets will have little say over...
OpenAI and Anthropic claim their AI models refuted a long-standing computer science assumption, but the field is still working out what it means
OpenAI released solutions to three major math problems, including a surprise rejection of the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a durable assumption in computer science about what is hard to...
dbt Labs and Fivetran pitch incremental moves to open data lakes, model by model
dbt Labs and Fivetran used their dbt Summit 2026 session to argue that data lakes built on open table formats are the next step for the data stack, and that teams can get there in small moves rather...
Anthropic's IPO Filing Flags Risk Its Own AI Could Threaten Humanity
Anthropic's S-1 filing with the SEC, published Monday ahead of its widely anticipated initial public offering, spends considerable space on the company's soaring revenues and costs-but also on risks...
dbt Labs launches open-source dashboard language that lives in your dbt repo
dbt Labs has released dbt Charts, an open-source language for building dashboards inside a dbt project, announced Monday at dbt Summit 2026 at dbtcharts.com. Dave Fowler, general manager and head of...
Sigma's semantic layer: 2,883 dbt models orchestrated by Dagster
Sigma Computing runs its own semantic layer - the same product it sells to customers - as versioned code inside a dbt project, with Dagster handling orchestration. Matt Senick, the company's lead...