Microsoft just made Fabric IQ's business ontology queryable by any AI agent via MCP — providing a new type of shared context layer.

Amir Netz, CTO of Microsoft Fabric, reached for a film analogy to explain why the shared context layer matters.

"It's a little bit like the girl from 50 First Dates," Netz told VentureBeat. "Every morning they wake up and they forget everything and you have to explain it again. This is the explanation that you give them every morning."

https://venturebeat.com/data/enterprise-ai-agents-keep-operating-from-different-versions-of-reality

Open source Qdrant database raised $50M - Agents need vector search more than RAG ever did

https://venturebeat.com/data/agents-dont-replace-vector-search-they-make-it-harder-to-get-right

Get ready for a new acronym - FluidCloud has come up with the concept of a Large Infrastructure Model (LIM) and no it's not just a fine tuned LLM

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4144531/fluidclouds-large-infrastructure-model-targets-the-multicloud-networking-gap.html

FriendliAI's founders wrote the research inside vLLM. Now they want neocloud GPUs earning more money between workloads

"The cloud vendors, neoclouds, have GPUs but they can't really use GPUs all the time at full capacity," Byung-Gon Chun told VentureBeat. "What we are providing is that instead of letting GPUs be idle, by running inferences they can monetize those idle GPUs."

https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/the-team-behind-continuous-batching-says-your-idle-gpus-should-be-running

Without the ability to scale and secure AI (and other) network traffic types - you're not going to have a good day. F5 has a bunch of updates coming to BIG-IP and NGINX that will help to tackle the challenge. Oh and that whole ingress-NGINX controller thing? There's a better option now too.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4143922/f5-brings-new-visibility-and-ai-controls-to-big-ip-nginx.html

Throwing more bandwidth isn't the answer to AI networking according to Eridu -it's about starting at first principles (and yes that means new silicon)

“AI data center networking needs to be rethought from the ground up with a clean sheet of paper, because it’s different than cloud data center networking,” Drew Perkins told me.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4143119/eridu-exits-stealth-with-200m-to-rebuild-ai-networking.html

Databricks trained KARL to do what your RAG pipeline can't: answer six kinds of enterprise questions without breaking


https://venturebeat.com/data/databricks-built-a-rag-agent-it-says-can-handle-every-kind-of-enterprise

ServiceNow is serious about automation. Apparently the key isn't about being smarter, it's about having the right roles, permissions and use cases.

"Don't chase butterflies. Focus on gritty, unsexy, operational use cases..."

https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/servicenow-resolves-90-of-its-own-it-requests-autonomously-now-it-wants-to

Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for servers and cloud config is nothing new - but apparently most orgs have not been doing it for cloud networking vendors.

“Everybody backs up their data, right? You have to be crazy not to back up your data,” Aharon Twizer told me. “What about your networking configuration? If your networking is down, it’s amazing that you have data, but you’re not going to get any traffic.”

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4137501/controlmonkey-extends-configuration-disaster-recovery-to-cloud-network-vendors.html

Just cause Anthropic's Claude can understand COBOL doesn't mean it can actually modernize and maintain it. AI is great, but it doesn't solve everything...

"The teams that win will treat AI as an accelerator inside a disciplined modernization program, with measurable checkpoints and risk guardrails, not as a magic conversion button.."

https://venturebeat.com/technology/ibms-usd40b-stock-wipeout-is-built-on-a-misconception-translating-cobol-isnt