Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks

Real environments can't inject edge cases on demand. Alibaba's Qwen-AgentWorld simulates them — and outperformed ...
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The $200 KLM business class experience

This is a comprehensive Flight Review of KLM on the route from Singapore (SIN) to Denpasar (DPS) aboard a Boeing 777-300. Met Office issues thunderstorm and rain forecast for Wednesday and Thursday ...
InfoQ

DuckLake 1.0: Data Lake Format with SQL Catalog Metadata

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering ...
GitHub

DPC: Training-Free Text-to-SQL Candidate Selection via Dual-Paradigm Consistency

DPC is a training-free method for inference-time Text-to-SQL candidate selection. Instead of asking an LLM judge to directly decide which SQL is correct, DPC introduces a second reasoning channel in ...
IEEE

To RAG or Not to RAG, That Is the Question: Effective Text-to-SQL Generation Under Ambiguity

Abstract: Natural language interfaces to databases promise to democratize data access, yet current Text-to-SQL systems fail to address a fundamental challenge: user questions are often ambiguous.
Microsoft

Enhancing reporting and analytics with SQL Server 2025 tools and services

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...
VentureBeat

How Snowflake's open-source text-to-SQL and Arctic inference models solve enterprise AI's two biggest deployment headaches

Snowflake has thousands of enterprise customers who use the company's data and AI technologies. Though many issues with generative AI are solved, there is still lots of room for improvement. Two such ...
TechCrunch

AWS announces Aurora DSQL, a new distributed SQL database that promises virtually unlimited scalability

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability (99.999% for multi-region ...