Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
InfoWorld

Are AI certifications worth the investment?

Nearly 80 percent of organizations now use AI in at least one core business process, according to McKinsey, yet widespread adoption has surfaced a persistent problem: a deep shortage of professionals ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

Power BI And Support For Third Party Semantic Models

I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief ...

Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...
The Next Web

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...
Tweakers

Quant Developer – Private Equity (Data & Analytics)

APG Asset Management, with offices in Netherlands, New York and Hong Kong, is seeking a Quant Developer to join the Global PE team in Amsterdam. As a Quant Developer, you work as an expert with data, ...
InfoWorld

Meta’s Muse Spark: a smaller, faster AI model for broad app deployment

The first new model to come out of Meta Superintelligence Lab following the company’s reorganization of its AI efforts, Muse ...
Unite.AI

The Critical Path to Automating Model Development

The next important milestone for AI research is to automate model development. Every advance in reasoning, language, and perception is, in some sense, a step toward that goal. However, the path to ...