Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active ...

A missing quote made MySQL scan 7.2 million rows. Here's how EXPLAIN exposed the problem and what it taught us about safe ...

The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use. Users increasingly turn to AI tools ...

Lucidity, the Cloud Storage OS, is extending the Lucidity Platform into object storage with a focus on object mapping, drift and tiering—enabling the company to apply its proven approach of driving ...

In the modern data landscape, query performance tuning and managing system price-performance is challenging, especially as the number of agentic workloads increase. Even for experienced developers and ...

Modern database systems are struggling to maintain real-time performance as data volumes and workloads continue to grow exponentially. Without more efficient optimization, the systems responsible for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

Data points to heavier AI Overview presence in commercial search. Broader studies report lower rates because they include more query types. The gap shows why AI Overview tracking depends on what gets ...

Search platforms like Google and Microsoft are reducing reliance on exact keywords for ad targeting, prioritizing user signals, intent mapping, and data quality instead. This change matters now as U.S ...

What it is: We explore applying frontier Large Language Model (LLM) agents to the classic database problem of SQL join order optimization. The Challenge: Traditional query optimizers often struggle ...

Here is a fact that might surprise you. Studies show that poor query performance causes up to 40 percent of database problems. The good news is that you can fix most of these issues yourself. Grab a ...

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...