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Cited in The Bespoke Build, Without the Bespoke Invoice

Exasol, "Integrating Exasol's MCP Server" and "Exasol launches Exasol Personal" (tagged "The Analytics Database for Agentic AI"), December 9, 2025. Accessed 2026-06-28

exasol.com ↗ · exasol.com ↗

Cited in From Warehouse to Knowledge Base

Exasol, "PostgreSQL Gateway" announcement, with Qlik shown as the connecting client. LinkedIn, June 2026.

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Cited in Building a Proxy So Two Systems Get Along

Exasol Labs, "exa-postgres-interface" (a PostgreSQL wire-protocol gateway for Exasol). GitHub repository, maintained under the exasol-labs organisation; originated as Nico Conforti's personal prototype (first commit 2026-04-23).

github.com ↗ · github.com ↗

Cited in Building a Proxy So Two Systems Get Along

EY (Ernst & Young LLP) and 8090, "Ernst & Young LLP and 8090 launch AI-native EY.ai Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC)", March 18, 2026.

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factory.ai ↗ · x.com ↗

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Fangyu Lei et al., "Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows", arXiv:2411.07763, November 2024 (ICLR 2025). Original results and the finding that enterprise tasks require searching metadata, dialect documentation, and project codebases are from the paper; current leaderboard scores are from the project site. Accessed 2026-06-16

arxiv.org ↗ · spider2-sql.github.io ↗

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Finout, "Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Pricing, API Costs, and Benchmark Comparison", June 2026.

finout.io ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Fivetran, "Fivetran + dbt Labs Complete Merger to Create the Data Infrastructure for Trusted AI Agents", June 1, 2026.

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Cited in From Warehouse to Knowledge Base · The Artisanal SQL Factory

Fivetran, "Fivetran Acquires Tobiko Data to Power the Next Generation of Advanced, AI-Ready Data Transformation", September 3, 2025.

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Flexera, "The latest cloud computing trends — Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report" (21% of workloads repatriated).

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fortune.com ↗

Cited in Spend Your Tokens Like They Cost Money

Fortune via Yahoo Finance, "MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing" (MIT *The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025*), 2025.

finance.yahoo.com ↗

Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

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github.com ↗

Cited in Game Jams With an Agent

Gartner, "Agentic AI: Autonomy Is Coming" (33% of enterprise software applications to include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024).

gartner.com ↗

Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

Gartner, "Gartner Announces Top Predictions for Data and Analytics in 2026", March 11, 2026 (prediction that agentic-analytics efforts relying on MCP alone will largely fail by 2028 absent a consistent semantic layer). Corroborated by Maria Korolov, "Data lakehouses are becoming foundations for enterprise AI", CIO, June 24, 2026. Accessed 2026-06-28

gartner.com ↗ · cio.com ↗

Cited in From Warehouse to Knowledge Base

Gartner, "Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027", June 25, 2025.

gartner.com ↗

Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

Gartner, "Hype Cycle for Agentic AI, 2026", April 2026.

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Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

Gartner press release, via HPCwire/AIwire, "Gartner Forecasts 90% Drop in LLM Inference Costs by 2030" (also the 5–30× tokens-per-task figure for agentic assistants), March 25, 2026.

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

GitGuardian, "The State of Secrets Sprawl 2026" (AI-assisted / Claude Code commits leaked secrets in 3.2% of cases versus a 1.5% baseline), March 17, 2026.

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Cited in Real Superpowers for Non-Programmers, and Real Footguns

GitHub, "Change the model for Copilot Chat". Accessed 2026-06-28

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GitHub, "GitHub Copilot app: the agent-native desktop experience", GitHub Blog, June 2, 2026.

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GitHub, "Spec-Kit". Accessed 2026-06-14

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GitHub Blog, "Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans" (sign-ups paused April 20, 2026; tightened usage limits; a handful of requests can exceed the plan price), updated May 14, 2026.

github.blog ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

GitHub Blog, "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing" (June 1, 2026 transition to AI Credits priced at listed API rates; base prices unchanged; annual plans and multiplier changes).

github.blog ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough? · The Meta-Harness

GitHub community discussion #192948, "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing" (AI Credits = tokens at listed API rates per model; retiring annual plans).

github.com ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

GitHub Docs, "About GitHub Copilot code review". Accessed 2026-06-17

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Goldman Sachs Research, "AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars" (24× token-consumption growth to 120 quadrillion tokens/month by 2030; inference cost down 60–70%/yr), May 2026.

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough? · Spend Your Tokens Like They Cost Money

Google, "Gemma 4", April 2, 2026.

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Cited in Model Routing in Practice

Google Looker, "What is LookML?" (the semantic model as version-controlled code). Accessed 2026-06-13

cloud.google.com ↗

Cited in The Semantic Layer Becomes the Agent Interface

Google Workspace, "Empowering businesses with AI" (Gemini bundled into Workspace plans; standalone add-on dropped; base prices rose ~17%), January 2025.

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Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

Greybeam, "How Headset Cut Snowflake BI Costs by 83% While Supporting 2,500+ Users".

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H. Kim et al., "FLEX: Expert-level False-Less EXecution Metric for Reliable Text-to-SQL Benchmark", NAACL 2025, arXiv:2409.19014 (strict execution accuracy agrees with human judgment ~62%).

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Henning Naarlien-Tolpinrud, "Public Pension Delivery Control", experience page. Accessed 2026-07-01

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Cited in Lineage Is the Audit Trail for AI Work

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Cited in From Warehouse to Knowledge Base

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github.com ↗ · huggingface.co ↗

Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

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Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

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Cited in The AI-Ready Data Model

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Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

Intelligent Internet, "Zenith" (project README) and "Zenith: frontier performance without Fable", ii.inc blog, 29 June 2026: an open-source MCP/ACP harness that runs a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex) as a multi-agent orchestrator for long-horizon tasks, with adaptive workers, testers, reusable skills and a principled stopping rule. Benchmark figures are self-reported on the project's own "Frontier SWE" set, not a public benchmark. Accessed 2026-06-30

github.com ↗ · ii.inc ↗

Cited in The Meta-Harness

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Cited in Mystifying Artificial Intelligence

Isaac Asimov, "Runaround", *Astounding Science Fiction*, March 1942 (introducing the Three Laws of Robotics), and *Robots and Empire*, 1985 (the Zeroth Law, devised by R. Giskard Reventlov and R. Daneel Olivaw, that a robot may not harm humanity or by inaction allow humanity to come to harm); on the Laws as a deliberate answer to the "Frankenstein" motif, Asimov's 1975 remarks, and on Daneel's millennia-long covert guidance of humanity across the Robot and Foundation novels. Wikipedia, "Three Laws of Robotics". Accessed 2026-06-14

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Cited in Mystifying Artificial Intelligence

J. Jimenez et al., "SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?", arXiv:2310.06770, 2023, and the SWE-bench Verified leaderboard.

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Cited in What Is a Harness?

J. Li et al., "Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs" (BIRD), arXiv:2305.03111, 2023, and the BIRD leaderboard (human expert execution accuracy 92.96%; top systems ~75%).

arxiv.org ↗ · bird-bench.github.io ↗

Cited in The AI-Ready Data Model

J. Yang et al., "SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering", arXiv:2405.15793, 2024.

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Cited in What Is a Harness?

J.D. Hodges, "Claude AI Usage Limits: What Changed in 2026" (tighter peak-hour sessions, February–April 2026).

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Jack Greenfield and Keith Short, "Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools", Wiley, 2004.

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Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

Jean-Georges Perrin, "PayPal open-sources its Data Contract Template", May 1, 2023, later contributed into the Open Data Contract Standard under Bitol.

jgp.ai ↗ · github.com ↗

Cited in Data Contracts for Humans, Dashboards, and Agents

Jellyfish, "AI as Amplifier: the 2025 DORA Report" (AI amplifies an organisation's existing strengths and weaknesses), November 2025.

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Jellyfish, "We Analyzed 146,000 Jira Tickets for Copilot Users" (senior engineers reduced coding time 22% vs 4% for juniors), February 2025.

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Jin et al., "Pervasive Annotation Errors Break Text-to-SQL Benchmarks and Leaderboards" (annotation errors in over half of audited BIRD examples), arXiv:2601.08778, 2026, and "ReViSQL: Achieving Human-Level Text-to-SQL" (human-level via a verified dataset + retraining), arXiv:2603.20004, 2026.

arxiv.org ↗ · arxiv.org ↗

Cited in The AI-Ready Data Model

Kalai, A. T., Nachum, O., Vempala, S. S., Zhang, E., "Why Language Models Hallucinate", OpenAI, September 2025 (training and evaluation reward confident guessing over admitting uncertainty).

openai.com ↗ · arxiv.org ↗

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Karpathy, A., "nanochat" repository and "Introducing nanochat" discussion (full pipeline; 8×H100 node at ~$24/hr; base speedrun ~4 hours / ~$100, measured 3h51m; ~$300 and ~$1,000 tiers; GPT-2-class capability for ~$48 versus ~$43,000 to train in 2019), October 2025.

github.com ↗ · github.com ↗

Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

Kimi Team (Moonshot AI), "Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence" technical report (≈1.04 trillion total / 32 billion active parameters; 384 experts, 8 routed per token; pre-trained on 15.5 trillion tokens), 2025.

arxiv.org ↗ · huggingface.co ↗

Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

KPMG, "KPMG named 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year for Global Industry Solutions: Breakthrough" (~90% internal Gemini Enterprise adoption), April 2026.

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Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

L. Zhang, A. Rao, M. Agrawala, "Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models" (ControlNet), arXiv:2302.05543, February 2023.

arxiv.org ↗

Cited in What Is a Harness?

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linuxfoundation.org ↗

Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

Linux Foundation, "Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)… including Model Context Protocol" (co-founders Anthropic, Block, OpenAI; platinum backers AWS, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft), December 9, 2025.

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Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid! · The Meta-Harness · What Is a Harness?

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

llm-stats, "SWE-Bench Verified Leaderboard", updated June 2026.

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Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

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Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

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Cited in What Is a Harness?

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Cited in Hot Vibes, Cold Data

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Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

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Cited in Model Routing in Practice

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Cited in Model Routing in Practice

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mars.com ↗

Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

Matrix (matrix.build), product site and "Matrix Guide": an "agent company runtime" with owner/lead/worker/system roles, a CEO Office and OKR memory, departments and structured handoffs; a downloadable macOS app ("web app coming soon"); tagline "Launch a 0-Person Company that actually earns". The GDPval-Bench score is self-reported, and the operating company, founders and funding are undisclosed as of access. Accessed 2026-06-30

matrix.build ↗ · matrix.build ↗

Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

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Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

McKinsey & Company / QuantumBlack, "The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation", November 5, 2025. Survey fielded June 25–July 29, 2025; n=1,993.

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Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

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longcat.chat ↗ · huggingface.co ↗ · venturebeat.com ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Men's Health, "This Guy Is Trying to De-Age by 17 Years. So He's Trading Blood With His Son." (the 2023 multigenerational plasma exchange with his 17-year-old son Talmage; the organ-by-organ "18-year-old" goal as told to Bloomberg). Accessed 2026-06-14

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Cited in Mystifying Artificial Intelligence

Menlo Ventures, "2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise" ($37B enterprise AI spend).

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Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

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Cited in Hybrid Human and Agent Teams

Microsoft, "Data lineage" (Power BI service documentation). Accessed 2026-07-01

learn.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Lineage Is the Audit Trail for AI Work

Microsoft, "From idea to deployment: the complete lifecycle of AI on display at Ignite 2025" (Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, Agent 365), November 18, 2025.

blogs.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Who needs Snowflake and Databricks, anyway?

Microsoft, "Important update to Power BI Premium licensing" (P-SKU retirement).

microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

Microsoft, "Microsoft 2025 Annual Report" (Azure surpassed $75B, up 34% in FY2025).

microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

Microsoft, "Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Third Quarter Earnings" (April 29, 2026).

microsoft.com ↗

Cited in It's the Ecosystem, Stupid!

Microsoft 365 Blog, "Expanding model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot" (Anthropic Claude selectable in Researcher and Copilot Studio), September 24, 2025.

microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Who needs Snowflake and Databricks, anyway?

Microsoft AI, "Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash", updated June 8, 2026.

microsoft.ai ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Microsoft AI, "Microsoft Build 2026: MAI keynote transcript" (MAI-Code-1-Flash priced below Claude Haiku 4.5, ~10% rollout and Auto-picker routing; MAI-Thinking-1 as a 35B-active-parameter MoE with 256K context), June 2026.

microsoft.ai ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough? · Model Routing in Practice

Microsoft Customer Stories, "OBOS BBL unifies analytics with Fabric and cuts costs by 20%".

microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

Microsoft Fabric Blog, "dbt + Microsoft Fabric: a strategic investment in the modern analytics stack". Accessed 2026-07-23

blog.fabric.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in The Artisanal SQL Factory

Microsoft Fabric Blog, "Two Years in: How Fabric Redefines the Modernization Path for Synapse Users" (Fabric as fastest-growing analytics product; customer milestones).

blog.fabric.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

Microsoft Learn, "Data access control model in OneLake" (workspace Admin/Member/Contributor roles bypass OneLake security with read-write access; row/column-level security not enforced at storage level). Accessed 2026-06-13

learn.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Who needs Snowflake and Databricks, anyway?

Microsoft Learn, "Delta Lake overview / Direct Lake" (Direct Lake reads Delta tables in OneLake without import). Accessed 2026-06-13

learn.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Who needs Snowflake and Databricks, anyway?

Microsoft Learn, "OneLake, the OneDrive for data" (tenant-wide lake; all tabular data stored as open Delta Parquet; cross-item querying). Accessed 2026-06-13

learn.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Where I Land on the Data Platform Question · Who needs Snowflake and Databricks, anyway?

Microsoft Learn, "Unify data sources with OneLake shortcuts" (references external ADLS Gen2, Amazon S3, Dataverse without moving data). Accessed 2026-06-13

learn.microsoft.com ↗

Cited in Who needs Snowflake and Databricks, anyway?

Mikolov, T., Chen, K., Corrado, G., Dean, J., "Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space" (word2vec), 2013.

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Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

MindStudio (citing SemiAnalysis), "Claude Code Is Doing $2.5B in Annualized Revenue" (≈$2.5B ARR by February 2026, up ~2.5x in three months).

mindstudio.ai ↗

Cited in What Is a Harness?

Mirzadeh, I., et al. (Apple), "GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models", October 2024 (accuracy drops by up to 65% when an irrelevant clause is added to a maths problem).

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Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

Mises Institute, "The Technocracy Movement and Howard Scott" (Technical Alliance origins around 1919 with Veblen's backing; Technocracy Incorporated; energy certificates; M. King Hubbert as co-author of the Technocracy Study Course and later originator of peak-oil theory), February 18, 2025.

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Cited in Mystifying Artificial Intelligence

Mistral AI, "Mixtral of experts" (46.7B total / 12.9B active parameters; released 8 December 2023).

mistral.ai ↗

Cited in How a Large Language Model Is Made

MIT News, "Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable" (MIT and Penn State; condensed user profiles increase agreeableness; to be presented at CHI 2026), February 18, 2026.

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Cited in Hot Vibes, Cold Data

MobyGames, "Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (2005)". Accessed 2026-06-29

mobygames.com ↗

Cited in Game Jams With an Agent

Morph, "DeepSeek V4: architecture, benchmarks, pricing", June 2026 (cites the llm-stats SWE-bench tracker).

morphllm.com ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough?

Morph, "SWE-bench Pro Leaderboard (2026)", June 9, 2026 (Scale SEAL standardized vs vendor-reported scores; scaffolding and contamination notes).

morphllm.com ↗ · scale.com ↗

Cited in Are We Approaching Good Enough? · Model Routing in Practice

MotherDuck, "Dives", saving an agent-generated, MCP-driven chart as a live, re-querying object (MotherDuck blog, 2026). Accessed 2026-06-14

motherduck.com ↗

Cited in Data Platforms After the Dashboard

MotherDuck, "MotherDuck Raises $52.5 Million Series B Funding as DuckDB Adoption Soars", September 2023.

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Cited in Big Data & Cloud Analytics Platforms: A 2026 Market Landscape

MotherDuck, "Your Data Model Is the Semantic Layer" (frontier LLMs reach ~95% practical accuracy on a clean schema; strict benchmark scores 58–64%), February 2026.

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Cited in The AI-Ready Data Model

NBC News, "Anthropic suspends new AI models after government directive", June 12, 2026.

nbcnews.com ↗

Cited in What Is Your Ground Strategy?

NBC News, "Trump suggests he could use military force to acquire Panama Canal and Greenland and 'economic force' to annex Canada", January 7, 2025 (refusal to rule out military force over Greenland and the Panama Canal; "economic force" toward Canada as a 51st state; Greenland framed as a national-security "necessity").

nbcnews.com ↗

Cited in Mystifying Artificial Intelligence

New York Post, "Inside biohacker Bryan Johnson's bizarre $349-a-ticket Don't Die Summit" (ticket price; attendees' biological ages tested and written on conference badges; grim-reaper presence; framing of the regimen as "on behalf of all humanity"). Accessed 2026-06-14

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