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A reliable way to detect anyone who thinks it makes sense to talk about data lakes and decision fabrics would be blissful.

A reliable way to detect anyone who thinks it makes sense to talk about data lakes and decision fabrics would be blissful.

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Pilita Clark

The other day, China’s Huawei tech giant told the world it was “building an AI data lake to break down data silos” and create “seamless co-ordination between stable online models and agile offline iterations”. Whatever that means.

Before that, the HTX crypto exchange reported the equally baffling news that it had “fortified its security moat while leveraging sharp market insights and rapid execution to consistently capture alpha returns”. And a top executive at the Nagarro AI engineering group said its clients wanted “strategic partners to help them reimagine their operational decision fabric”.

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