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 ...

EDB Postgres(R) AI Delivers Superior Predictability vs. Cloud Data Warehouses in High-Concurrency Benchmark, Unveils Q1 Platform Updates to Power the Agentic AI Era

Independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group reveals EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG delivers up to 58% cost savings and more consistent concurrent performance, while new platform features ...

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 ...

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and ...
Le Lézard

Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Kumo, a leader in predictive AI, today announced its launch of KumoRFM-2, the first foundation model to outperform fully supervised machine learning on enterprise relational data. Built by the team ...
GSM Arena

Tecno Spark 50 5G teaser image posted, the phone is coming soon

Tecno India shared a first official glimpse of the Tecno Spark 50 5G on its Instagram account. You can just about see the corner of the phone, but the bigger reveal here may be the name. Anyway, the ...

Snowflake: Cheap Enough To Watch, Not Yet Cheap Enough To Buy

Snowflake faces structural issues, hyperscaler rent, geopolitical data localization, and self-inflicted pricing pressure from ...
NPR

The Spark

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb starts ...
Consumer Reports

Chevrolet Spark

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