Data 2026 outlook: The rise of semantic spheres of influence

As for the AI bubble, it is coming up for conversation because it is now having a material effect on the economy at large.
InfoQ

DuckDB's WebAssembly Client Allows Querying Iceberg Datasets in the Browser

DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no ...
GitHub

Weighted-AST SQL-to-Text Generation

This repository implements the Weighted-AST retrieval with prompting system for SQL-to-Text generation, as described in our research paper "SQL-to-Text Generation with Weighted-AST Few-Shot Prompting" ...
Reuters

Russia's oil and fuel export revenues touch lowest level since Ukraine invasion, IEA says

November revenues drop to just under $11 billion Energy sector under strain from drone attacks, sanctions Dec 11 (Reuters) - Russia's revenues from exports of crude oil and refined products fell again ...
Reuters

USDA leaves US soybean export outlook unchanged after China sales resume

CHICAGO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture left its U.S. soybean export forecast unchanged in a monthly report on Tuesday as sales resumed to China, which for months shunned ...
IEEE

Generate Text-to-SQL Queries Based on Sketch Filling

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task has significant application prospects in automating relational database query interfaces. It can reduce user learning costs and improve data query efficiency. However, ...