By moving Cortex into dbt and Airflow, Snowflake is aiming to eliminate context switching and pull AI closer to production pipelines, analysts say.

Databricks claims AI agents have quietly taken over enterprise database creation, pushing its Lakebase product to the center of agentic application development.

Of the databases on Databricks' platform, 80% are now being built by AI agents, not people. And these aren't all tech companies.

After building an AI prototype in six hours, John Winsor turned it into a full platform in two weeks—showing how AI is collapsing the gap between vision and execution.