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A confidently wrong answer looks exactly like a right one. Through an open-source MCP gateway, 27% of read answers were confidently wrong, against 7% through Connect AI Gateway, with the same 27 models and the same business context.
Read the paper: bit.ly/4sAivx4
I'm genuinely excited for this event. It was a pleasure to participate in and it's a good place to go if you have questions about AI gateways. I'd love for you to attend!
It’s virtual, and it starts at 11AM EST! Register here: bit.ly/4k9w3gw
Today at Foundations 2026, we’re spending a day on one subject: the AI gateway.
The case for it, how it works, how it learns your business, what a CIO’s rollout really looks like, and how to get started. If you’re figuring out how agents get to your company’s data without losing control of it, this is worth an hour or two of your time.
It’s virtual, and it’s your last call to grab a spot: bit.ly/4k9w3gw
Jerod Johnson (he/him) retweeted
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
teach a man to Claude Code and you financially ruin him with distracting side projects for the rest of his life
Tomorrow's the day! At Foundations for AI 2026, the @cdatasoftware team is making the case for the gateway, how it works, how it learns your business, what a CIO's rollout really looks like, and how to get started.
Register now: bit.ly/4seMDxE
In one session, @suprgeek and I sit down together and talk through everything we're working on in CData Labs: the research-oriented arm at CData.
We're benchmarking models & gateway features, building evals, AND sharing the results and harnesses we built so you don't have to take our word for it.
Register now to join myself, Amit, and other great sessions from our Amit Sharma, Mike Albritton, @ravivlevi, @ngolovin, @willcmdavis and @Anaqua CIO, Erik Bailey.
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We were recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools.
We believe who pulls ahead with AI is decided at the data layer: how well you connect, the context agents get, and the control you keep.
Details: bit.ly/4zrkI07
Same business context, 2 MCP gateways, 27 models. When a model got the same task right on both, it used 93% fewer tokens through the gateway that served context on demand and ran the computation itself. The short version is in the video. Full benchmark (from @cdatasoftware): bit.ly/4sAivx4
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Our marketing team ran a Halloween video contest: the horrors of governing AI agent data access, made entirely with AI.
The entries got weird fast. @Mariesahr cast Amit, @ravivlevi, @AdamDeMi & me as Ghostbusters hunting rogue AI agents.
No agents were harmed. Happy Halloween!
@willcmdavis challenged the Marketing Team at @cdatasoftware to come up with an AI-generated video talking about the horrors of working with agents, just in time for Halloween. I was thankful that I had just wrapped my yearly viewing of the Haunting of Hill House (on Netflix, must watch for spooky season).
I worked with @ElevenLabs and @AnthropicAI's Claude models to polish a script, generate video, and add music. This is the trailer. Yes, it's derivative. Yes, it's kind of slop. But I had fun.
Full film in the comments.
I spent last week at an event for @AgenticAIFdn's MCP. But I've been also recently been working on the MCP I first fell for (@atomicmassgames).
Glad to get the latest Sentinels releases and Onslaught built!
#MarvelCrisisProtocol
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Every team at CData runs on the AI Gateway we’ve developed.
On November 5 at Foundations, Arielle Daigle @theRELworld and Jerod Johnson @jeRodimusPrime join others from CData to show what that looks like inside marketing, finance, and business development.
Registration is open: bit.ly/4k9w3gw
One more day at @AgenticAIFdn AGNTCon+MCPCon with @cdatasoftware where Doomguy is "processing" live data via Connect AI Gateway.
Want the shirt? Come by @suprgeek's session in Room 210A @ 2:55PM!
We (@cdatasoftware) gave AI agents business context (via Connect AI) covering CRM, warehouse, and ITSM data. Across 27 models, median tool calls per run fell from 40 to 8, and total spend fell from $350 to $93. The model mattered far less than the context it could read.
Full benchmark and method: bit.ly/4simjCX
What does Doom have to do with AI Gateways?! Come by the @cdatasoftware booth (P5) at @AgenticAIFdn AGNTCon + MCPCon or join me in the Demo Theater at 11:22 today to find out.
I attended the @AgenticAIFdn MCP Dev Summit in April (NYC) and learned so much about what people were building. Now I'm bound for San Jose to represent @cdatasoftware at AGNTCon + MCPCon (Booth P5 and in the Demo Theater Thursday, 11:22 AM).
If you're going to be there, I'd love to hear what you're building, how you're using AI, and share with you how CData Connect AI Gateway is helping customers find value (and save money!) with their AI initiatives.
