Databricks bought Row Zero, whose spreadsheets hold up to 1 billion rows, to give its Genie AI assistant a grid interface. Row Zero co-founder Nick End says people still need a familiar interface to check the results AI agents produce.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 32%
- Operator
- Operator 33%
- Investor
- Investor 35%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence65
Acronis says a new backdoor pair is hitting Afghan telecom and South Asian critical infrastructure, with one implant running command and control through the Google Sheets API.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
Developers who parse Meta's epoch-seconds webhook timestamp with new Date() get NaN and pay template rates on every WhatsApp reply, according to a dev.to post. The opposite slip, mixing milliseconds with seconds, holds the window open so free-form replies bounce silently.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
A sanitized workbook keeps the blank rows, duplicate IDs and text-formatted numbers, and the ten questions put to the assistant all have answers someone already computed by hand. Every formula and cell range gets saved.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives35
- Confidence45
Cisco Talos traces a crypto skimmer running since October 2025 that keeps persistence in a Tampermonkey userscript and pulls its code from a public Google Sheet. Talos says most organisations are not the target.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption20
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives55
- Confidence58
He came back in early 2024 to a company near a billion in revenue and thin on adjusted EBITDA. Each AI commitment now has to clear the same cash bar. Internal data cleanup doubles as product research.
Reality
- Evidence26
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives79
- Confidence33
An AI architect scrapped a working content agent because its output lived in a Telegram scroll. The rebuild uses three data planes, and the agent gets unattended write access to exactly one.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives28
- Confidence42
Composio ran the leaderboard-topping model through 240 agent runs against live Gmail, GitHub and Slack tools, and 129 passed. Harness choice moved the outcome more than price did.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+36
- Incentives57
- Confidence41