This week we feature articles from Louise de Leyritz, and Ben Thompson.
Additional reading comes from Mike Loukides, Michael Andrews, and Vik Paruchuri, Samuel Lampa & Trey Saddler.
News comes from Ontotext, Contentstack, Databricks, and Snowflake.
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Opinion / Analysis
AI assistants, copilots, and agents in data & analytics: What’s the difference?
Understanding AI autonomy: assistants, copilots, agents, and their impact on business value
Louise de Leyritz provides a well-written piece especially valuable for non-technical management, but also useful for many others across your organization. (7 min)
Apple Intelligence is right on time
Ben Thompson published this article just before Apple’s announcements a couple of days ago after an apparent, and accurate, leak. Thompson’s analysis remains on target and is a good read. (16 min)
https://stratechery.com/2024/apple-intelligence-is-right-on-time
More Reading
- What O’Reilly is building… Answers: generative AI as learning tool via O’Reilly Radar
- Marker converts PDFs to Markdown using deep learning via Vik Paruchuri
- Tracking content’s history: the key to better content maintenance via Story Needle
Content technology news
Ontotext announces Metadata Studio 3.8
Metadata Studio (OMDS) is a tool designed for knowledge graph enrichment through text analytics of unstructured documents.
https://www.ontotext.com/products/ontotext-metadata-studio/
Contentstack updates personalization tools
Extends headless CMS with new capabilities to overcome the personalization challenges of delivering highly targeted, branded content.
https://www.contentstack.com/solutions/personalization
Databricks to acquire Tabular
With support for Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation Delta Lake lakehouse formats organizations are not limited by formats their data is in.
https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-agrees-acquire-tabular-company-founded-original-creators
Snowflake announces enhancements to Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake ML, and more
Additional announcements include Snowflake Copilot, Cortex Guard, Document AI, Hybrid & Iceberg Tables, Guard, Trail, and Pandas API.
https://www.snowflake.com/news/snowflake-brings-industry-leading-enterprise-ai-to-even-more-users-with-new-advancements-to-snowflake-cortex-ai-and-snowflake-ml/
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