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AWS's OpenSearch pitch ahead of OpenSearchCon: retrieval, serverless costs and agent memory

Ahead of OpenSearchCon North America, AWS is pitching OpenSearch as one platform for retrieval, serverless economics and agent memory. Rob Strechay on what that consolidation actually buys — and where it stops.

Rob Strechay

September 17, 2026

Cohere's Model Vault now encrypts AI inference so even Cohere cannot see enterprise customers' data

Cohere plans on making the full serving stack used in Model Vault open source so that independent auditors will be able to validate that it doesn't log, export, or leak data.

Sean Michael Kerner

September 16, 2026

The share of developers using AI to write half or more code jumped from 12% to 42% YOY in latest BairesDev survey

The implication for enterprise engineering organizations is that AI adoption does not eliminate the cost of expertise; it changes where that expertise is required

Carl Franzen

September 15, 2026

Every user, device and agent gets its own table in KeewanoDB, and queries never join across them

Keewano says the reason agents cannot explain why something happened is that the sequence was taken apart before they ever queried it.

Sean Michael Kerner

September 15, 2026

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with integrated data sources — it pulls research, cites it, and builds decks in minutes

OpenAI developed the product with major investment banks Morgan Stanley and Evercore, whose feedback helped shape its initial focus on investment banking and equity research.

Carl Franzen

September 10, 2026

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OpenAI's new data agent skips the one thing rivals like Databricks are racing to publish: a benchmark

Businesses used to need a data analyst just to get an answer from their own data. OpenAI says its new ChatGPT Work agent ends that.

Sean Michael Kerner

September 10, 2026

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Why the economics of enterprise AI favor dynamic model routing

Snowflake's Anahita Tafvizi emphasizes dynamic AI model selection and intelligence efficiency to optimize business outcomes.

Anahita Tafvizi, Snowflake

September 10, 2026

Databricks-trained AI agents match Claude and GPT-5.6 Luna's answer quality — in half the time

Instead of running every query through the same fixed number of search steps, Databricks trained a model to decide on its own — cutting wasted search time without losing accuracy.

Sean Michael Kerner

September 9, 2026

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My first VentureBeat story was the 'Woodstock of AI.' My last is Nvidia buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

Today is my last day as Editorial Director at VentureBeat.

Michael Nuñez

September 4, 2026

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Enterprises put non-Nvidia chips 14 points ahead of Nvidia's next-gen GPUs on their evaluation lists

39.4% of enterprises plan to evaluate non-Nvidia AI accelerators, showing a shift in infrastructure strategy and increased interest in diverse options.

Rob Strechay

September 2, 2026

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Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page.

Cohere's Parse 5 model balances cost and structure, offering $1.50 per 1,000 pages for efficient document parsing without sacrificing essential layout.

Sean Michael Kerner

August 28, 2026

85% of companies burned by an AI mistake are racing to cut the humans who might catch the next one

New VB Pulse Research traces the pattern back to a surprising cause — deployment maturity, not recklessness.

Carl Franzen

August 18, 2026