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Dispatches from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026: The Noise, the Slop, and the Signal
AI adoption has accelerated dramatically, with agents now generating write-heavy, contextual "trajectory" data that strains traditional operational databases and blurs boundaries between infrastructure and feature stores. Real-world deployments, such as OpenAI's scaling of PostgreSQL to 800 million users and insurers leveraging 95% accurate speech-to-text for rapid care plan creation, highlight measurable ROI. AI governance has become urgent, requiring new guardrails atop existing data governance, while the hype around context graphs signals growing complexity and unresolved semantic integration challenges.
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