Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments

OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.

https://openai.com/index/expanding-ai-access-us-government

Google CloudBigQuery·Sep 10, 2026

BigQuery conversational analytics adds ML.CORRELATION in preview

Conversational analytics can now use ML.CORRELATION to calculate statistical correlations between a target column and one or more metric columns in a table.

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Google CloudBigQuery·Sep 10, 2026

BigQuery ML.METRICS evaluates predictions without a stored model

The preview ML.METRICS function computes classification or regression evaluation metrics on any table or query with actual and predicted values, with no need to create or reference a stored model.

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Google CloudBigQuery·Sep 10, 2026

You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data

You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data. This feature is in Preview .

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Google CloudBigQuery·Sep 10, 2026

BigQuery Data Engineering Agent integrates with BigQuery Graph

The Data Engineering Agent now uses BigQuery Graph for extra context between source and destination schemas, improving schema mapping accuracy in data engineering pipelines. It is generally available.

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SnowflakeSnowflake·Sep 10, 2026

Using dbt artifacts for Slim CI and defer to production in dbt Projects on Snowflake (General availability)

Slim CI, defer to production, failed-execution recovery, and concurrent execution are now generally available for dbt Projects on Snowflake. Reuse dbt artifacts from recent production executions to accelerate development, streamline CI/CD workflows, and recover from failed production runs without maintaining a separate artifact store.

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SnowflakeSnowflake·Sep 10, 2026

External secret providers (Preview)

External secret providers are now in preview. If your organization already keeps API keys, database passwords, and similar values in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager, Snowflake can read those values when a query needs them, so you don't have to maintain a second copy in a Snowflake secret .

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