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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
📊Postgres with Iceberg for High Performance Analytics
⚡Efficient Filter Pushdown in Parquet
🔗Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink - Exploring the API
👁️ Qwen’s QVQ-Max visual reasoning model
💰 OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40B Funding
👥Meta debuts Friends tab
💡 AI Tutorial:Create interactive mind maps in seconds with NotebookLM
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PostgreSQL is the bedrock on which many of today’s organizations are built. The versatility, reliability, performance, and extensibility of PostgreSQL make it the perfect tool for a large variety of operational workloads.
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In today’s data-driven world, databases play a crucial role in storing, managing, and retrieving vast amounts of information. As organizations continue to generate and rely on data for decision-making, the need for a robust data management strategy becomes increasingly important. A unified data management strategy ensures that data is accurate, accessible, and secure across the organization.
How to implement efficient filter pushdown in Parquet readers and why it’s challenging in practice…In the previous post, we discussed how DataFusion prunes Parquet files to skip irrelevant files/row_groups (sometimes also pages). This post discusses how Parquet readers skip irrelevant rows while scanning data…
Google’s Dremel was one of the first systems that combined a set of architectural principles that have become a common practice in today’s cloud-native analytics tools, including disaggregated storage and compute, in situ analysis, and columnar storage for semistructured data…In this paper, we discuss how these ideas evolved in the past decade and became the foundation for Google BigQuery…
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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink gives you access to run Flink workloads using a serverless platform on Confluent Cloud. After poking around the Confluent Cloud API for configuring connectors I wanted to take a look at the same for Flink. Using the API is useful particularly if you want to script a deployment, or automate a bulk operation that might be tiresome to do otherwise. It’s also handy if you just prefer living in the CLI :)
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OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a massive $40B funding round led by SoftBank, which would make it the largest private funding in history — and nearly double the ChatGPT maker's valuation to $300B. SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B, followed by another $22.5B later this year with other investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue, and Founders Fund.
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Alibaba's Qwen team released QVQ-Max, a new visual reasoning model that goes beyond basic image recognition to analyze and reason about visual information across images and videos.
Anthropic released two research papers that reveal how its AI assistant Claude processes information, helping to better understand internal mechanisms that explain capabilities like multilingual reasoning and advanced planning. The researchers developed an "AI microscope" that reveals internal “circuits” in the model, showing how Claude transforms input to output in key tasks.
Microsoft unveiled two innovative AI-powered agents, Researcher and Analyst, within Microsoft 365 Copilot. Researcher synthesizes your organization's internal information with external web and third-party data sources (like Salesforce or Confluence) to produce comprehensive strategies and reports.
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AI Tutorial
Create interactive mind maps in seconds with NotebookLM
Google has recently added interactive mind maps to NotebookLM, enhancing its ability to help users visually navigate complex information and better understand relationships between concepts in their documents.
Go to NotebookLM website
Select "Create new" and add your sources—they can be PDFs, text, audio, copied text, website and YouTube links, Google Docs, etc. If you already created a notebook, just open it instead.
Once you're in, select the "Mind Map" option.
Open your mind map, and that's it! Explore and enjoy.
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