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  1. 01Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and DuckLake, How They Work, Where They Stand, and Where They're GoingCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Lakehouse Table Formats in 2026: Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, and…
  2. 02The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate: What the Stateless Spec Means for Data PlatformsWhat the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol Release Candidate means for data platforms and agentic analytics.
  3. 03The Buyer's Scorecard for Agentic Analytics: Evaluating Tooling in the Enterprise AI Era![Papercut five-part buyer scorecard wheel for agentic analytics](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/the-buyers-scorecard-for-agentic-analytics-evaluating-tooling-in-the-enterprise-ai-era-diagram-1.png)
  4. 04The Metric Contract Mandate: Standardizing Semantic Layers Before AI Agent Access![Papercut metric contract diagram with central metric and surrounding governance attributes](/images/2026/week-2026-07-06/the-metric-contract-mandate-standardizing-semantic-layers-before-ai-agent-access-diagram-1.png)
  5. 05Trustworthy Concurrency in the Agentic Lakehouse: Reconciling Academic Proofs with High-Frequency Production WritesCross-posted. This article’s canonical home is iceberglakehouse.com. Trustworthy Concurrency in the Agentic Lakehouse: Reconciling Academic…
  6. 06Trustworthy Concurrency in the Agentic Lakehouse: Reconciling Academic Proofs with High-Frequency Production WritesThat distinction matters. The agentic lakehouse is not only a table-format problem. It is an orchestration problem, a governance problem, and an observability problem.