Welcome to the latest edition of the World of DaaS Roundup. Wall Street is betting on data as its new operating system. Washington is trying to rewrite the rules of who owns it. And AI agents are quietly making entire categories of data vendors irrelevant.
This week, everything moved at once — and the data layer was at the center of all of it.
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Antrhopic’s new finance agents run on Wall Street’s most valuable data — and the market noticed. Fortune
Pitchbooks, KYC, credit memos — all now handled by agents running on FactSet, Morningstar, PitchBook and Moody's data. FactSet fell 8%, Morningstar dropped 3% the same day. When agents replace the analyst, the data layer becomes the product.
Snowflake ties its AI Data Cloud directly into enterprise supply chain and planning operations. Yahoo Finance
The partnership with o9 Solutions connects AI-powered planning tools directly to governed enterprise data in Snowflake — no data movement, no duplication. The data platform is no longer a storage layer. It's the operational brain of the enterprise.
EU AI trilogy collapses after 12 hours with no deal on data governance for high-risk AI — and the August deadline now stands. Reuters
The second and final scheduled session ended without agreement on data governance requirements for high-risk AI systems. If no deal is reached before August, companies that banked on an extension face immediate compliance obligations they're not ready for.
The SECURE Data Act proposes one federal privacy law to replace 20 state standards. IAPP
Introduced April 22, the bill would create uniform data rights and enforcement rules across the U.S. — ending the compliance patchwork that has defined enterprise data strategy for the last decade. For anyone building or selling data products, a single national framework changes everything.
AI and BI: The Future of Data Analytics — Why Dashboards Are Dying and Data Lakes Are Taking Over with Michael Driscoll, Co.Founder and CEO of Rill Data. The Data Stack Show.
AI and BI: The Future of Data Analytics — Why Dashboards Are Dying and Data Lakes Are Taking Over with Michael Driscoll, Co-Founder and CEO of Rill Data. The Data Stack Show.
→ As AI agents become the primary users of data tools, the entire logic of how businesses interact with their data must be rebuilt from scratch — and the companies still betting on dashboards are already behind.
In this episode of The Data Stack Show, they discuss:
Why traditional dashboard-based BI tools are losing ground to code-driven, AI-powered interfaces.
How real-time analytical databases and data lake architectures are replacing legacy data warehouses.
Why a metrics-first approach is becoming the new foundation of enterprise data strategy.
How open standards and flexible interfaces are reshaping who owns and controls the data layer.
Why AI agents — not humans — are increasingly becoming the primary users of data tools.
M&A Funding Roundup
Showcasing open roles at companies led by members of our community. A few standout opportunities this week:
Data Foundations Engineer at Deloitte
Head of Data at Alternative Payments
Data Engineering Solutions Specialist at Snowflake
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Till next time,
The World of DaaS Team
