Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced
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Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: September 29 to October 7, 2026
Apache Iceberg 1.12.0 shipped this week, and the release set off a chain of follow-up work across the open lakehouse stack.
AI Weekly: Mistral Large 4 and the Decision Model Wave
Week of September 30 to October 7, 2026
Stop Calling Everything Made With AI Slop
Scroll any comment section under a blog post, a video, or a song in 2026 and you will find the same two-word review.
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: September 23 to 30, 2026
Data, Lakehouse and AI with Alex Merced is a deep dive into the architecture shaping modern analytics. Each edition explores data lakehouse design, open table formats like Apache Iceberg, catalog strategy, semantic layers, query acceleration, and the rise
Sonnet, GPT Sol and a Shelved Astra - AI Weekly September 23 to 30, 2026
Two labs shipped their mid-tier workhorse models one day apart, and both landed at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output.
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: September 15 to 23, 2026
Release managers ran the show this week, and license files kept tripping them.
AI Weekly: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and MCPA
Week of September 16 to 23, 2026
Fast Classification Models, LLMs, and the Apache Iceberg Lakehouse
Open the bill for any team that has put a large language model into a data pipeline and look at what the calls are doing.
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: September 9 to 17, 2026
Release managers had a humbling week.
AI Weekly: DeepSeek Cuts Prices as Agents Go Hosted
Week of September 10 to 17, 2026