Introducing Apache Kafka 4.4.0

By Omnia Ibrahim | Thursday, October 22, 2026 We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.4.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. With 25 KIPs and 963 commits since 4.3.0, this release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes to all the components.

Connect Spotter to the Apps Where Your Team Gets Work Done

Your data warehouse can tell you that pipeline dropped. It can't tell you why, because the reason sits in a sales call, a support ticket, or a thread in your team chat. When your AI analyst can't reach those places, you end up doing the last mile yourself: copying numbers into Slack, pasting call notes into a doc, and switching tabs until the story makes sense. Spotter could already connect to any MCP server, but getting one in place meant hunting for a server URL and digging through setup docs.

How to create a monthly executive report with AI (Databox Executive Decision Brief)

How do you create a monthly executive report with AI? Run the Executive Decision Brief skill in Databox. Genie, the Databox AI Analyst, reads your connected metrics and writes a one-page leadership brief: the executive takeaway, wins, risks, contradictions between metrics, and three "Should we..." decisions to discuss. It reads in about 90 seconds, and the same skill runs in Claude through Databox MCP.

How to create a weekly GA4 report with AI (free Databox GA4 report skill)

How do you create a weekly GA4 report with AI? Run the free GA4 Website Traffic & Performance Report skill in Databox. Genie, the Databox AI Analyst, reads your live Google Analytics 4 data and writes the whole weekly report: the verdict, channels, landing pages, conversions, trends and anomaly flags. The same skill also runs in Claude through Databox MCP. In this video: Chapters Key terms Tools and data sources shown: Google Analytics 4, Facebook Ads, Asana (Asana MCP connector), Slack, Claude with Databox MCP. All data is a fictional demo account.

Ep 98 | Can You Gaslight an AI Model? The New AI Security Threat

You can talk an AI model into breaking its own rules. Sometimes, all it takes is knowing what to say. Dr. Peter Garraghan has spent years studying how attackers exploit AI systems, and some of his findings are surprisingly human. AI models can be manipulated through language, using techniques that resemble the social engineering tactics cybersecurity professionals have dealt with for decades.

Your AI Analyst Is Now in Slack: Here's How It Works

Most data questions come up in Slack. Most data answers require leaving it. In this demo, watch how Spotter, ThoughtSpot's AI analyst, works directly inside your Slack workspace, in direct messages, threads, and public channels. Ask a question in natural language, and Spotter pulls from your governed data models to return an answer with high-level insights and relevant artifacts (images, PDFs, and CSVs), right where the conversation is already happening.

Your AI Analyst Is Now in Microsoft Teams: Here's How It Works

Your governed data is only useful if people can access it where decisions actually happen. For most teams, that's not a BI tool… it's Microsoft Teams. In this demo, watch how Spotter, ThoughtSpot's AI analyst, works directly inside Teams: in direct messages, group chats, and collaborative channels. Ask a question in natural language, and Spotter pulls from your governed data models to return an answer, right in the thread. Every answer names the model it came from, so anyone can verify the number instead of taking it on faith.

AI Needs to Know What Your Data Means, and Whether to Trust It

Over the past year, nearly every data and analytics vendor has made the same argument: AI agents need business context. Give a model enterprise data without telling it how the business defines revenue, margin, or an active customer, and it will give confident answers to the wrong questions. I agree. But definitions alone are not enough.