Columbia University School of Professional Studies

Data in Action: Inside the Fall 2025 Political Analytics Capstone

Five student projects showcase how data analysis geared at answering the right questions creates opportunities and impact for ...

This 23 Year-Old’s New AI Data Company Has Already Hit A $100 Million Run Rate

That insight led to a pivot. Instead of building applications, they would focus on making the underlying data drawn from how ...

Data visualization all-stars unveil Ridge AI with $2.6M to fix the analytics problem for SaaS apps

Data visualization veterans Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer are launching Ridge AI from stealth with $2.6M from Madrona and ...
NextBigFuture

2026 is Breakthrough Year for Reliable AI World Models and Continual Learning Prototypes

Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO) and other AI leaders sees the next big AI gains—and the path to AGI—will come from targeted ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Ships Production-Ready Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...