Directional signals from Dremio's State of the Data Lakehouse report on AI: semantic consistency, autonomous performance, governance, and an agent-ready plan.
A five-layer pattern for trusted agentic analytics (data, knowledge, agents, tools, policy), how one request moves through it, and a checklist for your stack.
Why federal open data needs agent-ready interfaces, what MCP adds over legacy APIs, the GSA hackathon as a signal, and a blueprint for a read-only SQL MCP tool.
How regulated firms keep data on-prem in Iceberg tables on private object storage while sharing approved metadata via Nessie or Polaris and read-only gateways.