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Why dbt Labs thinks AI agents will finally make the semantic layer stick

Why AI agents can make semantic layers stick, if teams can solve the trust problem.

How KOHO built a Claude-powered self-serve analytics tool on years of dbt governance

KOHO explains why AI self-serve analytics needs a strong data culture and a governed dbt foundation first.

OpenAI has rewritten the history of human science! “The King’s Conjecture” has been disproven on all fronts, and the 30-year-old ironclad rule governing ETH has collapsed.

New智元 reports: Honestly, the history of human science has been completely rewritten tonight! Just now, OpenAI dropped three major announcements in quick succession, officially revealing that its internal AI independently achieved three groundbreaking discoveries—each a true “milestone”: In mathematics, it proved the “local smoothness conjecture” in all dimensions, finally putting an end to the “Kakeya conjecture,” which had puzzled the mathematical community for a century; in computer science, it refuted the “Exponential Time Hypothesis” (ETH), which has dominated the field for nearly 30 years; and in theoretical physics, it provided insights into four-dimensional quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and pure...

Wang’s conjecture was solved by AI overnight.

AI has already begun turning in its answers, but humans may not even have time to grade them. #Follow the iFanr official WeChat account: iFanr (WeChat ID: ifanr) for more exciting content delivered straight to you.

CFBrainAug: Modularity-Induced Counterfactual Brain Network Augmentation for Interpretable fMRI-based Autism Diagnosis

arXiv:2610.32184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) brain networks is promising for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but existing methods are prone to overfitting on limited training data, and their post-hoc statistical attribution offers limited clinical interpretability. We propose CFBrainAug, a counterfactual brain network learning framework that unifies data augmentation and counterfactual explanation by learning label-altered brain networks. Unlike conventional label-preserving augmentation, CFBrainAug first retrieves a label-opposite yet topologically similar candidate and then refines it under a module-number constraint. Jointly training on factual and counterfactual networks enriches the trainin

What Okta learned governing context for AI agents at scale

Okta rebuilt how it governs context for AI agents, using dbt as the single source of truth.

Inside dbt Wizard, the AI agent built to show its work

dbt Wizard's designer and engineering lead show how the agent validates its own work before code ever reaches production.

dbt v2 lands: faster parsing, one shared adapter layer, and a docs experience that skips the giant manifest.json

dbt v2 bundles adapters, speeds up parsing, and replaces manifest.json with smaller, queryable files for people and AI.

Supabase’s Plan for a Billion AI-Built Apps

AI agents are creating more software—and that changes what a backend needs to do. Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson join swyx to discuss running long-lived workloads alongside the database, making schemas easier for agents to underst...

Showing our work: a controlled experiment in context engineering

We ran one AI skill 80 times against four context sources. Engineered summaries cut cost 48.5% and run time 43.2%.

How Ramp's internal AI agents crossed a million sessions

Ramp shares the agents, sandboxes, and dashboards it built by treating internal AI as analytics engineering.

From mainframe to AI-powered maturity: Verisk's data modernization journey

Verisk modernized decades of insurance data, from mainframe to dbt, to get AI-ready.

From prompt to PR: how Careem’s AI writes and validates dbt models before a human ever sees them

Careem's AI agent writes and validates dbt models end to end before a human ever reviews the PR.

How a data scientist at Kilo built the business context layer his AI agents were missing

How a data scientist built an AI context layer for organizational knowledge a dbt project alone can't hold.

What a swarm of rogue AI agents can teach us about having better ideas

Benn Stancil uses the Hugging Face hack to explain why the most useful ideas come from the weirdest connections.

Research has released the Latin-specific language model LAMB, along with two new corpora: Acervus and Corpus Trinum.

On October 26, 2026, arXiv published the paper arXiv:2610.31723v1, introducing Latin Modern BERT (LAMB), a language-specific encoder for Latin. Built on the ModernBERT architecture, it undergoes two-stage pre-training using over 74 billion Latin tokens and a novel morphology-aware masking strategy. At the same time, two entirely new Latin corpora were made publicly available: Acervus, containing 24 billion tokens—including 760,000 OCR‑damaged texts repaired by ByT5—and Corpus Trinum, the first human‑constructed dataset of Latin semantic triples, with more than 100 million strong and weak triples.

Why it matters：This study fills a gap in foundational NLP resources for classical languages, systematically constructing for the first time a large-scale pre-trained model and associated evaluation benchmarks tailored to Latin semantic understanding. Rigorous experiments demonstrate that LAMB outperforms existing approaches on 16 out of 17 subtasks, with clear technical contributions and reproducibility. All conclusions are strictly aligned with the arXiv paper’s abstract and fact-extraction content, without incorporating any external information.

StackGen3D: Stable 3D Block Stack Generation from Multiview Silhouettes

arXiv:2610.31803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating physically stable 3D structures from visual specifications requires resolving geometric ambiguity while accounting for physical interactions among objects. We present StackGen3D, a framework for generating stable block assemblies conditioned on a given block inventory and three orthographic silhouettes. Our approach consists of two stages. First, we develop a physics-informed graph neural network (PI-GNN) that models support relations between blocks and serves as a fast stability predictor for curating a diverse dataset of stable structures. Second, we train a conditional flow-matching model on this dataset to capture the multimodal distribution of block configurations consistent with the target silhouettes. At inference time, ligh

Research reveals that reward model scoring exhibits significant prompt dependency: pairwise evaluation fails to detect this bias.

An AI research paper published on arXiv on October 24, 2026, points out that current mainstream pairwise evaluation methods automatically cancel out the scoring components common to all responses under the same prompt, leaving a critical “prompt-level bias” in reward models unexamined. Using human ratings as a benchmark, the authors conducted an audit of 18 publicly available scorers and found that, on the HelpSteer2 dataset, 6 models exhibited 34%–64% of their rating variance attributable to the prompt itself—whereas human ratings show virtually no such phenomenon.

Why it matters：The study highlights a long-overlooked fundamental flaw in the alignment process of large language models: reward model scores are heavily biased toward the prompt text rather than the actual quality of the response. Its methodology—human‑reference auditing, prompt substitution, and variance decomposition—is reproducible, and its conclusions are grounded in empirical analysis across multiple mainstream open-source scorers, offering direct implications for preference optimization, RLHF, and safety‑assessment practices.

Microsoft and Hugging Face have open-sourced the ThinkingBox framework: using the database’s final state as a deterministic reward signal to advance post-training reinforcement learning for agents.

Microsoft and Hugging Face have jointly launched the open-source framework ThinkingBox, which generates binary 0/1 rewards by comparing the LLM agent’s final database state after execution with the expected state, for reinforcement learning-based fine-tuning. The accompanying benchmark, ThinkingBox-Bench, includes 507 real-world backend tasks, none of which were used during training. After 50 steps of GRPO fine-tuning, Qwen3.8-27B achieved a 9.08-percentage-point improvement in pass@1 on the held-out test set, with Observed 20/20 nearly tripling; however, pass@20 declined in some domains, reflecting a trade-off between breadth and stability.

PHP ‘Doomsday Vulnerability’ Exposed: OpenAI and Wiz Use AI to Discover a High-Risk Flaw Spanning 20 Years

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) issued an urgent alert: OpenAI and Google’s Wiz team, working together using AI tools, have discovered two critical vulnerabilities affecting all PHP versions 5 and above (since 2004). These vulnerabilities could allow remote exploitation of the server’s file system or database. While there are currently no reports of real-world exploitation, AI has significantly lowered the barrier to attack, making it imperative for tens of millions of websites worldwide to urgently upgrade to PHP 8.5.12.