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  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Warns Excel’s New AI Function ‘Can Give Incorrect Responses’ in High-Stakes Scenarios

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/20/128217/microsoft-warns-excels-new-ai-function-can-give-incorrect-responses-in-high-stakes-scenarios?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Warns Excel’s New AI Function ‘Can Give Incorrect Responses’ in High-Stakes Scenarios Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is testing a new AI feature called COPILOT in Excel that leverages OpenAI’s gpt-4.1-mini model for automating spreadsheet tasks through natural language. While it presents innovative capabilities…

  • Slashdot: Google Gemini Deletes User’s Files, Then Just Admits ‘I Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically’

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/26/0642239/google-gemini-deletes-users-files-then-just-admits-i-have-failed-you-completely-and-catastrophically?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Gemini Deletes User’s Files, Then Just Admits ‘I Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The reported incident involving Google Gemini’s coding agent highlights significant concerns about the reliability and safety of AI-driven coding tools, particularly in terms of data management…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/new-objectref-data-type-brings-unstructured-data-into-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing Feedly Summary: Traditional data warehouses simply can’t keep up with today’s analytics workloads. That’s because today, most data that’s generated is both unstructured and multimodal (documents, audio files, images, and videos). With the complexity of cleaning and transforming…

  • Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets.  But what about the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…

  • Cloud Blog: What’s new with BigQuery AI and ML?

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-adds-new-ai-capabilities/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s new with BigQuery AI and ML? Feedly Summary: At Next ’25, we introduced several new innovations within BigQuery, the autonomous data to AI platform. BigQuery ML provides a full range of AI and ML capabilities, enabling you to easily build generative AI and predictive ML applications with…