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- Tool launches, pricing changes and acquisitions
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- One number worth knowing
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Past issues
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- Week of 14 September 2026 — agents get a standards body, and a governance testSeptember 22, 2026
- The Gates Foundation joins the group governing MCP and agent standards, HubSpot and OpenAI push into ad attribution, and import prices jump.
- Week of 7 September 2026 — governed agents and a stickier CPISeptember 22, 2026
- Alteryx ties AI agents to governed business logic, Delaware tightens its privacy law, and August inflation came in hotter than July.
- Week of 31 August 2026 — DuckDB joins AWS, and the case for context engineeringSeptember 22, 2026
- AWS completes its purchase of DuckLabs, a BARC study links "context engineering" to AI success, and August's jobs and aging data land.
- Week of 24 August 2026 — record fines, record data volumesSeptember 22, 2026
- Meta settles child-safety claims for up to $18B, Salesforce reports record Data Cloud volumes, and ISG says AI is moving analytics from reporting to action.
- Week of 17 August 2026 — the cost of letting the algorithm decideSeptember 22, 2026
- Uber was fined €825M for automated driver deactivation, the FTC proposed personalized-pricing rules, and ANA moved on retail media measurement.
- Week of 10 August 2026 — Databricks' $5B round, and the gap between AI spend and AI readinessSeptember 22, 2026
- Databricks raised $5B at a $190B valuation, Alteryx found half of IT leaders can't get business context into AI, and a new Dutch cyber law took effect.
- Week of 3 August 2026 — Washington turns to AI pricing and hiring, platforms turn to AI governanceSeptember 22, 2026
- A Senate hearing targeted AI pricing, a new framework covers AI hiring tools, Databricks GA'd its AI governance gateway, and Palantir's revenue jumped 93%.
- Week of 27 July 2026 — the EU's AI rules shift, and vendors race to make analytics conversationalSeptember 22, 2026
- The EU's AI Omnibus took effect, Nielsen and DataBahn pushed AI deeper into measurement and data pipelines, and HBR warned AI can scale bad analysis faster.
- Week of 20 July 2026 — Snowflake goes agentic, DataRobot bets on sovereigntySeptember 22, 2026
- Snowflake ships an agentic control plane and CoCo GA, DataRobot leans into sovereign AI, and the EU's AI Act amendments hit the Official Journal.
- Week of 13 July 2026 — Databricks pauses Genie billing and signs a $188bn roundSeptember 22, 2026
- Databricks freezes Genie charges, lines up funding at a $188bn valuation, Anaconda buys Kilo Code, and June's CPI drops sharply.
- Week of 6 July 2026 — the EDPB defines anonymous, Actian folds in JaspersoftSeptember 22, 2026
- EDPB adopts anonymisation and AI-scraping guidelines, Actian completes its Jaspersoft deal, and Connecticut's privacy law expands.
- Week of 29 June 2026 — the EU softens its AI Act as Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5September 22, 2026
- The EU Council waters down AI Act deadlines, Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, and Databricks previews sub-second SQL.