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Fivetran outlines an open, AI ready data strategy for Microsoft Fabric
Fivetran and dbt Labs have outlined an open data strategy for organizations building analytics and AI systems on Microsoft Fabric. The approach combines Azure storage…
Fivetran Named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Data Integration Report
Fivetran has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, according to the company. The recognition is Fivetran’s seventh…
Fivetran and dbt Labs set out 5 public policy principles for data and AI
Fivetran + dbt Labs has published a five-point public policy framework for data and AI, arguing that policy debates about AI should give as much attention to the data…
Sigma runs a 2,883-model semantic layer as code on dbt and Dagster
Sigma Computing runs its own semantic layer as versioned code inside a dbt project, orchestrated by Dagster across 2,883 dbt models and 6 data regions. Matt Senick, the…
Espresso AI Says Off-Path dbt Models Can Run on Smaller Snowflake Warehouses
Most models in a dbt DAG do not affect how long a job takes, and running them on smaller warehouses can cut costs, Espresso AI CEO Ben Lerner argued at dbt Summit 2026.…
Ecolab cuts legacy SQL sixfold with Datafold's AI migration agent and dbt
Ecolab is seeing roughly 6 times less code and 4 times fewer data connections after using an AI migration agent from Datafold to move its legacy SQL logic into dbt…
Checkr Cuts Metrics Investigation From Hours to Minutes With AI Context
Checkr says it turned an investigation that used to take hours into one that takes minutes by giving its AI agent structured business context on top of dbt and Omni.…
LangChain Grows Self-Serve Analytics Questions 40x With Layered Agent Context
LangChain says the number of questions asked through its self-serve analytics system has grown 40x after its data team gave an AI agent layered business context. The…
dbt Labs launches dbt Charts, an open-source YAML language for dashboards
dbt Labs has launched dbt Charts, an open-source language that lets teams define dashboards in simple YAML files stored alongside their dbt projects. The company…
dbt Labs: Semantic Layer Lifts AI Analyst Accuracy to 96-100% in Benchmark
A model answering questions through a semantic layer scored 96 to 100% accuracy in a dbt Labs benchmark, compared with 80 to 91% when it wrote raw SQL against a database…
dbt Labs Says AI Agents Could Finally Make the Semantic Layer Stick
dbt Labs argues that AI agents give the semantic layer a second chance after a first wave that mostly failed to reach production. Zach Mandell, staff product manager for…
EF Education First scores dbt models on cost and value with a Cortex Agent
EF Education First built a scoring system on dbt and Snowflake that rates every model by cost and usage, and wrapped it in a Snowflake Cortex Agent that its domain teams…
Data Culture lifts AI analytics agent accuracy from 0% to 94.7% by adding context
Data Culture, a boutique data and AI consultancy, says it raised an e-commerce analytics agent from 0 percent to 94.7 percent accuracy by adding layers of context, while…
Okta moves AI agent context into dbt so every agent shares one source of truth
Okta has moved the context its AI agents rely on out of the Snowflake UI and into dbt, where it is reviewed through pull requests and shared by different agents. Pooja…
dbt Wizard AI agent shows data impact as a DAG, not a diff
dbt Labs is pitching dbt Wizard as an AI agent built specifically for analytics engineering, one that validates every change against a development schema and shows its…
dbt Labs tests context engineering: dbt MCP cut AI skill cost 48.5%
dbt Labs says serving an engineered summary of Gong call transcripts through its dbt MCP server cut cost by 48.5% and run time by 43.2% compared with pulling full…
Ramp's internal AI agent platform Inspect passes a million sessions
Ramp's remote agent platform Inspect has recently passed a million sessions, according to a dbt Labs write-up of a dbt Summit 2026 talk by Ramp data platform engineer…
Kaizen Gaming's dbt governance framework cuts new project setup time by 70%
Kaizen Gaming says a governance framework that centralizes just three layers of its dbt setup has cut new project lead time by 70%. The company's analytics engineers…
MCP-connected AI agent traces a wrong dashboard number in under three minutes
An AI agent connected to three MCP servers can explain why a dashboard number is wrong, not just describe it, according to a dbt Summit 2026 talk by Mars Dauer of…
Compare the Market cuts report delivery from 6 weeks to under 1 week
Price comparison company Compare the Market has cut the time needed to deliver a new report from 6 weeks to under 1 week, according to a dbt Labs account of a talk at…
Green Dot Builds Meta:Context, a Business Schema for AI Agents in dbt
Green Dot has built Meta:Context, a five-layer schema stored in the meta block of dbt's semantic layer YAML, to give AI agents the interpretive judgment a semantic layer…
Recruit Holdings Teaches Its Text-to-SQL Agent to Read a Website's Hidden Context
Recruit Holdings, the Tokyo-based parent company of Indeed, fixed a text-to-SQL agent that kept misreading event names by writing the missing context into a reviewed…
Riot Games Uses an AI Agent Assembly Line to Rebuild a dbt Warehouse
Riot Games used a five-station AI agent pipeline to build dbt models for a Wild Rift event, according to a dbt Summit 2026 session by senior data engineer Jess Zhang.…
WebstaurantStore Uses Snowflake Cortex AI to Automate dbt Staging for 700+ Sources
A three-person data engineering team at WebstaurantStore automated a staging layer for more than 700 sources in 90 days without adding headcount, using Snowflake Cortex…