Tabular foundation models perform supervised learning in a single forward pass with no training run. What they are, where they win, and what they change in the data architecture.
Databricks, Snowflake, and SAP are closing the gap between operational databases and analytical platforms through acquisition, betting on different layers of the same five-part architecture.
Six architectures share the phrase zero-copy, and they have different costs, failure modes, and governance stories. A walk through federation, virtualization, sharing protocols, and materialization.
How every media era from radio to AI forces humanity to build new cognitive filters -- the shield against scams and the sieve for finding signal in an ocean of noise.
