Couchbase’s AI Data Plane aims to turn fragmented data into real enterprise agent memory

Industry discussions about what’s holding back AI often focus on security, graphics processing unit availability and other ...
diginomica

Couchbase AI Data Plane tests whether NoSQL’s cloud-era strengths can carry into agent memory

As Couchbase launches its AI Data Plane, the more interesting question is whether the NoSQL-era strengths it built for ...
Opinion
Database Trends and ApplicationsOpinion

IBM Offers Variety of Semantic AI Updates to IBM Db2

IBM is introducing a variety of AI tools to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro (SQL DI Pro), generally available as of March 2026, offering semantic search, similarity discovery, anomaly detection, and unified ...
IEEE

Next-Generation Database Interfaces: A Survey of LLM-Based Text-to-SQL

Abstract: Generating accurate SQL from users’ natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database ...
Ars Technica

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired

In the US, fired and laid-off workers often have their digital credentials deactivated before they learn about the loss of their jobs; indeed, the inability to log in to a corporate system may be the ...
IEEE

XiYan-SQL: A Novel Multi-Generator Framework for Text-to-SQL

Abstract: To leverage the advantages of LLM in addressing challenges in the Text-to-SQL task, we present XiYan-SQL, an innovative framework effectively generating and utilizing multiple SQL candidates ...
VentureBeat

Databricks tested a stronger model against its multi-step agent on hybrid queries. The stronger model still lost by 21%.

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...
VentureBeat

8 billion tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration — and cut costs by 90%

When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t ...
dbta

Devart dbForge 2025.3 is Now Available, Brings Smarter SQL Workflows

Devart, a leading developer of database management software, is offering dbForge 2025.3, the latest update to its unified ecosystem of professional database tools—delivering expanded connectivity, ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg AI Researchers’ Advance Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Multi-Agent PExA Framework

A team of AI researchers at Bloomberg have developed PExA, an agentic framework that achieved 70.2% execution accuracy, sharing one of the top positions on the Spider 2.0 (Snow) leaderboard, one of ...
InfoWorld

Google BigQuery gets managed AI functions to simplify unstructured data analysis

The new managed functions will let enterprises apply LLM reasoning to structured and unstructured data directly in SQL, eliminating prompt tuning and external tools. Google has boosted its BigQuery ...