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Why AtScale Is Thriving: AI Can't Do Math

Guessing is not a strategy, and that's why we're growing while other software slides.

In October 2025, University of Chicago researchers confirmed that the best AI can’t multiply two four-digit numbers, a problem fourth graders do with a pencil. The AI models they tested were wrong a whopping 99%…
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The Missing Third Leg of Every Agentic AI Stack

Every architecture diagram I see draws the same three boxes. Sometimes it’s Model + RAG + MCP . Sometimes it’s Model + MCP + Tools. The labels move around, but the shape never changes. The…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Inside a Real Benchmark: Measuring the Cost of AI on the Warehouse

Any AI performance conversation runs the same three tracks: token costs, inference latency, and model accuracy, and all three numbers matter. But once an AI system reaches enterprise data, a fourth system starts determining both…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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The Other Half of Intelligence Efficiency

AI usage isn’t the same as AI value. That’s why Snowflake introduced “intelligence efficiency” this week. In a post on Snowflake’s blog , CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy laid out how companies are pouring money into AI,…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Have Meaning, Will Travel: Why Apache Ossie Needs You

Here’s a heretical question worth considering: what if standards are actually beside the point for semantic layers? Apache Ossie was recently announced as the open standard successor to the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative. Its…

Posted By: Luis Maldonado

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AI Isn't Replacing BI. It's Finally Finishing the Job.

Will AI replace BI?  Consider this: The cloud didn’t kill the data warehouse. Self-service didn’t kill the dashboard. Donald Farmer , who’s watched decades of this cycle repeat, put it to me plainly on the…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Five Questions Every CDO Should Ask About AI and Semantics

The metrics powering your AI agents right now, like margin per square foot or total economic cost, probably don’t belong to you. They belong to whichever platform computes them today. Snowflake, Databricks, the frontier LLM…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Don’t Let Microsoft Be Your Warden

Microsoft just made the case for AtScale by playing Warden Norton, the prison boss from “The Shawshank Redemption.” On Tuesday, Sara Vredevoogd from Microsoft’s Power BI team announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot can now query…

Posted By: Mark Palmer