Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In this episode, we're thrilled to have special guest Mehdi Ouazza  diving into a plethora of hot tech topics:

• Mehdi Ouazza's Insights into his career, online community and working with DuckDB and MotherDuck.
• Demystifying DevRel: Definitions and distinctions in the realm of tech influence (dive deeper here).
• Terraform's Licensing Shift: Reactions to HashiCorp's recent changes and its new IBM collaboration, more details here.
• Github Copilot Workspace: Exploring the latest in AI-powered coding assistance, comparing with devin.ai and Cody
• Snowflake's Arctic LLM: Discussing the latest enterprise AI capabilities and their real-world applications. Read more about Arctic - what it excels at, and how its performance was measured
• More legal kerfuffle in the GenAI realm: The ongoing legal debates around AI's use in creative industries, highlighted by a dispute over Drake’s use of late rapper Tupac’s AI-generated voice in diss track & the licensing deal between Financial Times and OpenAI
• Future of Data Engineering: Examining the integration of LLMs into data engineering tools. Insights on prompt-based feature engineering and Databricks' English SDK
• AI in Music Creation: A little bonus with an AI generated song about Murilo, created with Suno