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Enterprise alert: PostgreSQL just became the database you can’t ignore for AI applications

June 3, 2025
The open-source PostgreSQL (sometimes also referred to as Postgres) is apparently a very hot commodity for big enterprise data platform vendors. Snowflake is acquiring privately-held PostgreSQL provider Crunchy Data, in a deal that is reportedly valued at $250 million. The acquisition comes barely two weeks after Snowflake’s rival Databricks acquired serverless PostgreSQL vendor Neon. The pair…
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Model Context Protocol: A promising AI integration layer, but not a standard (yet)

June 2, 2025
In the past couple of years as AI systems have become more capable of not just generating text, but taking actions, making decisions and integrating with enterprise systems, they have come with additional complexities. Each AI model has its own proprietary way of interfacing with other software. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the first attempts to fill this gap. It proposes a…
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FLUX.1 Kontext enables in-context image generation for enterprise AI pipelines

May 30, 2025
Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup founded by the creators of the popular Stable Diffusion model, has launched a new image generation model called FLUX.1 Kontext. This model not only generates and edits photos, but also allows users to modify them with both text and other images. The company also announced its new BFL Playground, where people can try out BFL’s models before letting them loose…
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Spott’s AI-native recruiting platform scores $3.2M to end hiring software chaos

May 28, 2025
Spott has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to build an AI-native platform that promises to transform how recruitment agencies operate. The San Francisco-based startup announced the funding round today, led by Base10 Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Fortino, True Equity, and several angel investors. The capital injection follows Spott’s recent completion of Y Combinator’s…
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