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Key Updates in Data and AI
• DuckDB 2.0 LTS adds client‑server support, faster file reads, AI agent mode and SQL triggers, supported through Oct 2027 • Shopify trains specialist open models for Sidekick, achieving 7× faster responses and ~90% cost reduction • Snowflake governance guide outlines data controls, masking policies and prompt‑injection checks for AI agents • Apache Arrow improves in‑memory analytics with columnar buffers, boosting cache‑friendly scans and SIMD execution • Meta’s “Prometheus” super‑cluster scales toward 1 million GPUs, achieving >85% training goodput and 99% interruption reduction since mid‑2025 • Engineer trains a 3.8B‑parameter LLM from scratch for $998 in 43 hours on eight rented GPUs, reaching 0.384 CORE score