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ntroducing Agent Chat: The Shortest Path from Data to Action

Nov 3, 2026 • Sheila Sitaram

Analyze data, automate workflows, and turn insights into applications so users can act on insights without losing time and context switching between tools

Introducing Flight Explainer: Live charts of your python pipelines

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.

Introducing Dive Apps: Superpowers for AI Builders

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.

Introducing Dive Apps: Superpowers for AI Builders

Oct 29, 2026 • Alex Monahan

Bringing the Big Ducks

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).

DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : October 2026

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.

prompt_jev() now works on images

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.

MotherDuck is coming to Azure

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.

A Chief of Staff's Guide to Context Layers

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.

Data Engineering Is the Cache Invalidation Problem ft. Josh Wills

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.

5 Jev use cases for analytics, with real queries and datasets

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.

Build It Yourself: What You'll Make at the Data Outpost Workshops

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.

AI Needs Data, Data Needs AI: What You'll Learn at Data Outpost

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.

Jev for analytics: turn text columns into gold, in plain SQL

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.

Querying the entire internet with MotherDuck

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.

dbt Charts on MotherDuck: Declarative Dashboards

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.

Introducing prompt_jev(): bringing Jev to Motherduck SQL

Sep 21, 2026 • Hamilton Ulmer, Till Döhmen, Jacob Matson

Classify text in SQL with prompt_jev(), powered by TypeSafe's Jev. 100,000 rows labeled in 40 seconds for $0.50 at frontier-LLM accuracy. Live on paid plans.

DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026

Sep 16, 2026 • Simon Späti

The September 2026 DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter: DuckLabs joins AWS and MotherDuck acquires Tower, DuckDB v2.0-alpha lands, table functions in pure Java, bulk loads into SQL Server, Zarr stores as SQL tables, an infinite canvas for your data, plus a community spotlight on Vladimir Gribanov.

Database 101: when to choose which database

Sep 15, 2026 • Dumky de Wilde

SQLite, Postgres, DuckDB and 20 others: they all write, store and read data. The questions you ask every day tell you which one you need.