Sean Michael Kerner

Sean Michael Kerner is a freelance journalist that has spent the last two decades covering enterprise and open source technologies. He is a life long Star Trek fan, speaks passable Klingon and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars.

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Snowflake builds new intelligence that goes beyond RAG to query and aggregate thousands of documents at once

Enterprise AI has a data problem. Despite billions in investment and increasingly capable language models, most organizations still can't answer basic analytical questions about their document repositories. The culprit isn't model quality but architecture: Traditional retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems were designed to retrieve and summarize, not analyze and aggregate across large document sets.

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GitHub at the center of Agentic AI

GitHub's Agent HQ aims to solve enterprises' biggest AI coding problem: Too many agents, no central control

At its Universe 2025 conference, the Microsoft-owned developer platform announced Agent HQ. The new architecture transforms GitHub into a unified control plane for managing multiple AI coding agents from competitors including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition and xAI. Rather than forcing developers into a single agent experience, the company is positioning itself as the essential orchestration layer beneath them all.

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