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Nov 13, 2026 • Simon Späti
A domain expert with no SQL skills builds a working pipeline, map and live dashboard from three public sources using Claude and MotherDuck, and why business knowledge still decides if the numbers are right.
Nov 11, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
For Data Teams, AI has changed everything. The traditional work can be run by agents, leaving folks wondering "what's next"? In this blog, MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani unpacks the possibilities.
Nov 5, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Eight MotherDuck launches in eight days: Bring Your Own Compute, secure views, Giga, Dive Apps, AWS Marketplace, Agent Chat, dark mode and more.
Nov 5, 2026 • Jacob Matson
Eight MotherDuck launches in eight days: Bring Your Own Compute, secure views, Giga, Dive Apps, AWS Marketplace, Agent Chat, dark mode and more.
Nov 3, 2026 • Sheila Sitaram
Analyze data, automate workflows, and turn insights into applications so users can act on insights without losing time context switching between tools
Nov 2, 2026 • Colin Rogers, Hamilton Ulmer
Agents can build a MotherDuck Flight in minutes. But how do you know it does what you asked? Flight Explainer is EXPLAIN ANALYZE for your pipelines: a live chart of every run showing the plan, which branch it took, how far each step got, and what it touched.
Oct 29, 2026 • Alex Monahan
MotherDuck is launching Dive Apps: fully custom data apps that can write-back anywhere. Build them with your agent and they run on the MotherDuck data warehouse. Use Dive Apps to replace SaaS apps, automate your operations, or bring humans into the loop to steer your agents.
Oct 28, 2026 • Jordan Tigani
The pursuit of all things duck-related has led us to some interesting places. In this blog, MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani explores the bigger, darker corners of benchmarks on top DuckDB 1.5 (and teases what is possible in DuckDB 2.0).
Oct 18, 2026 • Simon Späti
The October 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: Jev typed AI answers in DuckDB and MotherDuck SQL, DuckDB 2.0's PEG parser and async S3 reads, DuckLake maintenance, analysis-ready OpenStreetMap, OneLake in the browser, a native Mac app, plus a community spotlight on Mark Litwintschik.
Oct 16, 2026 • MotherDuck team
prompt_jev() now takes images: store them as BLOBs in MotherDuck, ask closed questions in SQL, and get typed answers with a confidence score you can join with the rest of your data.
Oct 15, 2026 • Jacob Matson
MotherDuck is coming to Azure. Pick your region on the waitlist; regions open in order of demand. Your Copilot agents can connect to MotherDuck today.
Oct 15, 2026 • Kaitlyn Henry
Kaitlyn, MotherDuck’s Chief of Staff, on why self-serve analytics with AI agents fragments your metrics, and how non-technical leaders can get everyone on one definition of metrics.
Oct 9, 2026 • Simon Späti
Josh Wills, creator of dbt-duckdb and former head of data engineering at Slack, on why the model barely matters, why agents still write ugly and expensive data pipelines, and why data engineering is still the cache invalidation problem.
Oct 6, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Five prompt_jev() use cases on real data, with SQL you can rerun: AI agent traces, Hacker News sentiment, sales calls, cloud job postings and a regex replacement.
Oct 5, 2026 • Alex Monahan
Data Outpost kicks off on November 4, 2026 in San Francisco with 11 hands-on workshops from MotherDuck, Vercel, Sigma, Prefect, Estuary, Airbyte, Reducto, Braintrust, and Together AI. Here's what you'll build in each one: your own agents, the data pipelines they need, and the skills to run them in production.
Oct 1, 2026 • Alex Monahan
Data Outpost is an AI and data conference in San Francisco. Its main day, November 5, 2026, has 13 talks and panels from teams at Canva, Stripe, DoorDash, Posit, dbt and more. Here's what each session covers, from agents that write back to context layers, SQL harnesses, and AI for regulated data, and what you'll walk away with.
Sep 29, 2026 • Mehdi Ouazza
Turn a free-text column into typed SQL columns with prompt_jev(): 100,000 consumer complaints classified in 82 seconds, at about 1% of a frontier LLM's cost, plus how to check the labels before you trust them.
Sep 22, 2026 • Dumky de Wilde
Common Crawl publishes petabytes of web crawl data on S3. With DuckDB and MotherDuck you can query the Common Crawl dataset directly, no cluster and no download, and measure how fast the vibe-coded web is growing.
Sep 21, 2026 • Alex Monahan
Define your dashboards in YAML with dbt Charts, then the same dbt build that runs your pipeline deploys them to MotherDuck Dives. Just 2 config changes! Your Dives will refresh live whenever your stakeholders take a look. See how we constructed the dbt package as well.