Apache Iceberg's REST Catalog spec now lets a catalog return per-user row filters and nine column actions for a trusted engine to enforce, Databricks says. Policies that need subqueries or lookup tables do not fit that vocabulary, so the portability covers simple rules running on engines a deployment already trusts.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
Microsoft made Fabric IQ the default business context for Microsoft 365 Copilot at FabCon Barcelona and opened it to outside agents over MCP. The metric definitions teams keep in Power BI semantic models now shape what those agents answer.
Publishers:azure.microsoft.com · thenewstack.io Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives80
- Confidence60
UK business take-up of AI tools has risen only 0.2% since 2023, ONS figures show, even though model reliability has improved significantly. An ITPro article argues the gap now turns on channel partners changing their skills and the way they pitch their services.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives85
- Confidence30
Databricks' Shopify connector for Lakeflow Connect, in beta since September 22, 2026, syncs 39 Shopify tables into Unity Catalog incrementally. For a store whose data fits those tables, it can replace hand-maintained Admin API extraction code once the team clears the beta's access requirements.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives50
- Confidence50
S&P Global Energy says per-dataset Genie agents, bundled by a FastMCP proxy, cut launch time for conversational data products from months to days. Its governance claim rests on Unity Catalog, though part of the estate sits in sources outside Databricks.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives85
- Confidence55
Amirtha Saminathan, who led an AI assistant build at Fortune 50 scale, blames post-pilot failure on data and ownership, citing MIT's 95% zero-return finding. Leaders approving one now choose when to pay for production standards, in a slower pilot or a later rebuild.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives40
- Confidence35
Data agents must resolve each metric by version and effective date, a dev.to post argues, using a Revenue v3-to-v4 redefinition as its test case. Otherwise a Q1 question asked in September gets whatever definition the registry happens to hold that day.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Simform CTO Hiren cites an S&P Global survey in which 42% of enterprises abandoned most AI initiatives before production, up from 17% a year earlier. Why those projects were dropped is not in the survey. That explanation is his own, out of client work.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption26
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives74
- Confidence56
Keeping the Iceberg table format governance-unaware was a deliberate call. That leaves the catalog as the only thing standing on the path of every read. A dev.to guide lists six pieces an operator has to source above it.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
A governance, risk and compliance executive at Manulife argues that assessments taken at intervals cannot describe systems that change between them. The evidence he offers is his own experience with enterprise projects and one cited research paper.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives62
- Confidence58
An Entrepreneur contributor who runs a data and AI company says he still believes enterprises need clean data and real governance. He now puts a decision about how staff think alongside AI ahead of it.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives68
- Confidence42
Shawn Rosemarin of Pure Storage argues in Forbes that different numbers for one metric mean the definitions were never aligned, and that the expensive part of fixing it is refinement work most organizations have never scoped.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
AIforce opens Salesforce data, workflows and permissions to Claude, Slack and its own Lightning screen with no migration. The adoption figure it gave for Agentforce Coworker counts activations over 35 days.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption41
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives86
- Confidence50
A dev.to post argues that logging prompts, SQL and latency cannot show how an agent read the question, and proposes eight append-only events running from resolved intent to final answer. It works if your metrics are already governed.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
In a Snowflake preview, business users queried a Customer 360 domain of more than 100 million records in plain English. The definitions that make those answers correct live in a semantic view and in a contract check the team wrote itself.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption18
- Hype gap0
- Incentives52
- 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
The AI Act's general-purpose AI obligations became enforceable in August, and the parts of them that touch a data pipeline depend on records only the collector can write while it is fetching. Penalties scale with turnover.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives70
- Confidence44
Jay Hawkinson, writing for the Forbes Tech Council, says his pre-deal AI governance reviews keep turning up models with no named decision owner, and he puts figures on what changed once companies assigned one.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives75
- Confidence60
PostHog asked Claude, Cursor and its own assistant the same revenue question and got three answers. Its remedy was a governed catalog of definitions stored as ordinary SQL tables.
Publishers:posthog.com
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption21
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives78
- Confidence42