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Article: AI Changes the Data Interface, Not the Query Engine

By Peihao Yuan · InfoQ · Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 09:00 (31m ago) · Original article ↗

This article presents a disaster-recovery analytics workflow in which an AI agent generates constrained SQL or Python, DuckDB computes reproducible facts from Parquet, and the agent interprets the results. It explains the determinism split, replayable analysis, and four signals for deciding when an embedded engine is sufficient or a managed lakehouse is justified.

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Survey shows dropping Assistant for Gemini was one of Google’s biggest blunders

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Android Authority 16m ago

Harbor Adds Docker Sandboxes to Run Reproducible AI Agent Evals in Isolated MicroVMs

Docker announced that Harbor, the open-source agent evaluation framework, now works with Docker Sandboxes. This change allows each evaluation task to run in its own microVM. So, instead of sharing a container, tasks are isolated for better performance By Claudio Masolo

InfoQ 31m ago

AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind

Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data…

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Article: AI Changes the Data Interface, Not the Query Engine

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