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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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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

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My Case for the Semantic Layer, Made Live on Atlan's Podcast

I recently joined Austin Kronz on Atlan’s podcast, WTF is the Context Layer , to discuss one of the biggest sources of confusion in enterprise AI: the distinction between semantic layers , context layers, and…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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The Real AI Sovereignty Fight Is About Meaning

In the last few weeks, the sovereignty conversation has moved from academic to urgent. Palantir’s Alex Karp went on CNBC to explain the logic behind his company’s partnership with NVIDIA and spent 20 minutes arguing…

Posted By: Dave Mariani

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Why I Joined AtScale: The Semantic Layer Inflection Point

Over four and a half years at Snowflake, I watched enterprises run into a problem that’s about to get much worse: every major platform has built its own semantic layer , and none of them…

Posted By: Mike Wandey