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Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI

Who Authorized That? The Delegation Problem in Multi-Agent AI

Your AI agent booked a meeting, summarized a financial report, and emailed the highlights to three stakeholders. To do this, it called a calendar agent, a document analysis agent, and an email agent. Each accessed internal systems, made decisions about what to include, and acted on your behalf. Here’s the question your security team can’t […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini

Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini

This series interviews (see #1 with Mark Freeman) real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time we have none other than Chris Riccomini. Chris has seen the data stack evolve over the years. He thinks AI will soon handle the majority of data engineering work, provided with the right tooling and access to CLIs and APIs. He also thinks LLMs might not speak SQL, but a format…

SSP Data Engineering Blog
The Dagster Almanack: From Complexity to Composability

The Dagster Almanack: From Complexity to Composability

I have read the “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” by Charlie Munger and thought about what it would take to write one for Dagster. A complete guide with all the insights, tips, and some predictions for the data platform engineer, just like an Almanack provides, with practical information for daily life. My goal is to offer a collection of wisdom, insights, and principles gathered over the years. Giving you an outside view from someone who has used Dagster since back in 2019, used it at enterprise scale…

SSP Data Engineering Blog
Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI

Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's some of the clearest writing I've seen on the ethics of integrating AI into modern society. Pope Leo XIV chose the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who is known for his 1891 Rerum novarum encyclical on "Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor". This story on Vatican News further clarifies the…

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datasette 1.0a30

datasette 1.0a30

Release: datasette 1.0a30 The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable "Jump to..." menu, described in detail in The extensible "Jump to" menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on the Datasette blog. You can try it out by hitting / on latest.datasette.io - it looks like this: The new jump_items_sql() plugin hook allows plugins to add their own items to the set that's searched by the plugin. Tags: projects, datasette, annotated-release-notes

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