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Microsoft’s About-Face on Semantic Layer Standards

For a year, Microsoft stayed out of open standard for semantic models. Now it's in.

When Snowflake launched the Open Semantic Interchange in September 2025, dozens of companies signed on. Microsoft wasn’t one of them. Power BI’s semantic models stayed in DAX, built for Power BI, while the rest of…
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A Wrong Answer Has Never Looked So Good

Executive Summary: An agent doesn’t have a gut check, so it treats a wrong answer as fact and can’t catch it before building the next question on top of it, and accuracy drags down fast…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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The Missing Step in Text-to-SQL

Executive Summary: I asked how many units we sold in Q2 2008 against an AdventureWorks tutorial dataset and got 25,427 units. Correct. A second calendar in the same schema, a retail 4-4-5, returned 24,639. Also…

Posted By: Ryan Siegler

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Why AtScale Is Thriving: AI Can't Do Math

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%…

Posted By: Mark Palmer

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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