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The AI sorcerer’s stone

What a summer of building a self-improving agent taught me about research, ephemerality, and curiosity.

Prospecting signals are overwhelming. Make them work for you.

The problem isn't that we're not doing enough, it's that we're doing too much and none of it is talking to each other.

What happened at Prompt 2026

Humans are still the hero of the AI and data era. Here’s what 250 data leaders, practitioners, and business users told us at Prompt 2026.

A new era for Hex, and data

Announcing Hex 4.0, and a $100m fundraise — building toward the agent-native future for analytics.

Introducing Hex 4.0

A reimagined platform for humans and agents to collaborate with data

Meta joins the pack

Muse Wonder is the first model from outside OpenAI and Anthropic to score alongside their recent models on DataBench.

Greenflash joins Hex

Welcome, Greenflash!

Before you build that data agent, I have notes.

Build vs. buy in data has never been hotter. But do you know what you’re signing up for?

Hill climbing to glory: using evals to cut AI errors 7x

How 1,800 evals showed us AI feature quality improvements go beyond prompting

You don't need to migrate those 300 dashboards

Real self-service means migrating logic, not dashboard UI.

The AI data sprawl

Nobody can trace it. The data team still owns the mess.

Introducing: Generative Chart Controls

Breaking the tradeoff between code-gen visualization and last-mile precision

Your next BI tool shouldn't be a BI tool

BI as an industry has become defined by its ever-changing requirements. But what does it mean today?

Introducing DataBench

A frontier benchmark for complex data work and analytical reasoning

Introducing Evals

Measure Hex Agent performance and test context changes safely before they ship, all from the CLI.