Did someone mention real-time data? Data movement platform Confluent’s new Real-Time Context Engine provides it via MCP and continuous refreshing. It runs on Confluent’s DSP to provide historical context. Your AI agents will dance with joy.
Informatica is more than 30 years old, but they’re keeping up with the latest in AI wizardry. Their fall release includes new agents for autonomous data exploration and enterprise discovery, compound reasoning and improved natural language understanding in the CLAIRE GPT chatbot, and real-time MCP connectors for AI agents.
Or maybe you feel safer. In either case, without fanfare (or advance notice) the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spent the holiday formalizing a change to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database (originally designed to check immigration status of noncitizens), to vastly expand of who it can check on and what data can be entered, searched and shared. The big change is adding voter information so the Trump Administration can more easily purge voter records.
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