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LLMs + the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are the Yang to the Semantic Web Project's Yin. We now have a solution to the final hurdle—visualization. Years of Linked Data work now come alive. I explain this, with demonstrations, in a new newsletter post. www.linkedin.com/pulse/semant... #MCP

We’re excited to introduce the latest Virtuoso Maintenance Release—Virtuoso 08.03.3333—packed with feature enhancements and bug fixes across the platform. community.openlinksw.com/t/virtuoso-0... #AI #GenAI #VirtuosoRDBMS #DataSpaces #SQL #SPARQL #KnowledgeGraph #SemanticWeb #LinkedData

Using the MCP services at: awsnews.remotemcp.directory Operations bound to the services offered via the following Streamable HTTP endpoint: awsnews.remotemcp.directory Chat UI Options: * linkeddata.uriburner.com/chat * inspect.mcp.garden#chat (via linkeddata.uriburner.com/chat/mcp/mes...)

One more thing, OPAL implements MCP as both a Client and Server, so it can bind to operations (tools) published by other MCP Servers that support SSE or Streamable HTTP. Links in the next reply for a quick example.

🧰 This is what modern AI infrastructure looks like. Here’s a quick showcase featuring AnthropicAI’s Claude Desktop interacting with a live OPAL instance that queries the DBpedia Knowledge Graph—entirely instructed using natural language. #MCP #OPAL #Screencast

⚙️ Deploying to the cloud? It’s simple: 1. Go to the AWS Marketplace 2. Instantiate the OPAL AMI 3. Open {cname}/chat and log in 4. Plug in your favorite LLM API key from providers Enjoy! 3/N 🧵

Another major benefit of Anthropic’s Claude Desktop support for remote MCP servers is the ability to combine powerful data access and visualization in notebooks that can be shared via web links. OPAL MCP server example: an earlier demo ⤵️ claude.ai/share/11cb40...

What’s happening here? An A2A Orchestrator is interacting with an LLM-powered AI Agent that exposes procedures, functions, 3rd party APIs etc., as MCP-accessible tools. All made possible by the, in deceptively simple manner, by the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL). #MCP #A2A #GenAI

🚀 Just Released: The New Cloud-Deployable OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest edition of the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)—now equipped with powerful MCP and A2A protocol support, on both the client and server sides. 1/N 🧵 #MCP #OPAL #A2A

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) brings Unix-style loose coupling to AI Agents. I built a visual explainer (JSON-LD metadata included) using Google Gemini’s new Canvas feature—with an embedded Knowledge Graph to illustrate. Check it out: openlinksw.com//data/html/u... #MCP #Unix #Explainer

Quick screencast demo of the @OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) in action—showcasing how MCP + A2A enable loosely coupled, agentic workflows. 🧠 Agent hosts route tasks via A2A ⚙️ Agents use MCP tools (APIs, functions, stored procs) 📄 Tools described using OpenAPI (JSON/YAML) #OPAL #MCP #A2A #VirtuosoRDBMS

Why Should You Care? MCP-accessible, free, widely used edition of an innovative multi-model DBMS and application server—powered entirely by open protocols and query language implementations. #OpenSource #VirtuosoRDBMS #KnowledgeGraph #SPARQL #SQL #GraphQL #DBMS #DataSpaces #MCP

An example of what’s now possible—thanks to our sophisticated MCP Server for JDBC, Oracle’s native JDBC Driver, and Anthropic's Claude Desktop as the MCP client: A dashboard generated from Oracle’s HR database using the following natural language prompt.

Over the weekend, I had some time to experiment more with remote MCP servers, and created one that consolidates the AWS news articles from more than 40 sources, and lets you access them via the MCP client of your choice: awsnews.remotemcp.directory The data is updated on an hourly basis.

Great podcast conversation featuring @edzitron.com and @guykawasaki.bsky.social, I encourage you to have a listen. guykawasaki.com/ed-zitron-si...

💥Boom! The MCP Server for our OpenLink Software AI Layer (OPAL for short) is now generally available for both cloud-based and on-premise deployment. This sophisticated and secure implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) supports both client and server roles: #MCP #VirtuosoRDBMS

The EU (across many key projects) has been one of our major customers—successfully rolling out and expanding their use of #VirtuosoRDBMS for over a decade. #UseCase #OPAL #VirtuosoRDBMS #AI #GenAI

This week’s edition of my @LinkedIn newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today. We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/model-...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) acts as a universal translator between LLMs and data sources, eliminating complex platform-specific requirements. Our new open source MCP server for ODBC enables seamless integration of any ODBC-accessible data into RAG pipelines. www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-...

How can we prepare for a future migration from Bluesky to Mastodon? Bridgy Fed — a service that enables you to connect together your website, fediverse account and Bluesky account — will help. But Bridgy Fed needs to be easier to use. So I recruited Claude’s new Sonnet 7 model to help me do […]

If you closely examine the GenAI disruption in software, you’ll notice that all roads lead to better note-taking—progressively enriching knowledge repositories that manifest as knowledge graphs constructed using Linked Data Principles.

Whoa! UniProt’s latest publicly accessible Knowledge Graph now contains 210,122,358,019 RDF triples—powered by our #VirtuosoRDBMS open-source edition, live on the Web and available to AI Agents, Apps and Services across life sciences, genomics, bioinformatics, and related fields. #KnowledgeGraph

The pendulum is swinging back toward the edge of the global connectivity mesh we call the #Internet—a familiar cycle, much like the shift from time-shared mainframes to the PC and Mac era. Microsoft's Phi-4 LLM running on my MacBook Pro (M1). #GenAI #Trends #PersonalComputing #AppleIntelligence

I think it already is. But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made. We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

Looking at the new GPT-o3-mini from OpenAI via a deceptively simple reasoning and inference test. #AI #GenAI

Q: What do users actually want from #GenAI? A: Great productivity oriented tools that are loosely coupled with LLMs. Here's a link to great post from @bennstancil.bsky.social that hones into this fundamental sentiment. benn.substack.com/p/another-one #AI

The latest edition of my newsletter is out! This week, I focus on a deceptively simple reasoning and inference challenge to compare the capabilities of AI+Compute inference services from #OpenAI, #Google, #Microsoft, #Groq, #Alibaba, #DeepSeek, and #Cerebras. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-rea...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

NotebookLM was impressive, but now we have the visual edition from @heygenai.bsky.social. Check out this fantastic video podcast on the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)—an add-on to our Virtuoso Data Spaces platform. youtu.be/ceBgsOW2EQI #AI #GenAI #HowTo #KnowledgeGraph #OPAL #Video #Podcast

Q: Do LLMs possess reasoning & inference capabilities? A: Yes-ish. “Yes-ish” isn’t enough for scaling an AI + compute business model. LLMs will face challenges evolving toward AGI without integrating Knowledge Graphs where reasoning is native to the platform. www.linkedin.com/posts/kidehe... #AI

Happy New Year! Check out the latest article in my newsletter: 2025 Technology Predictions: A Shift Towards Agentic Workflows and Decentralized Innovation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-t... #Trends #AI #GenAI

you read some of the stories about programmers in the 70s and 80s and the lengths they'd go to to save a single byte of memory and then you open chrome today and have to go turn the heat down in your house while you use it. really makes you think

Google Gemini 2.0 now passes my “deceptively simple” test: generating SPARQL queries against the #DBpedia Knowledge Graph. youtu.be/uoA8R6dHTt8 #GenAI #AI #KnowledgeGraph #LinkedData #Gemini

Boom! The OpenLink Software AI Layer (#OPAL) now supports Anthropic's #Claude language models. See comments for a #DataTwingler #AI Agent demo executing #SPARQL and #SQL queries via a live #VirtuosoRDBMS instance. Screencast Demo: www.openlinksw.com/data/screenc...

#Grok (v2) just passed my #SPARQL query generation test on the #DBpedia #KnowledgeGraph! It can now generate a link resolving to all movies directed by Spike Lee from my test prompt. x.com/i/grok/share... Links are shareable too—this is HUGE for #GenAI & #SocialMedia posts! #AI #LinkeData

Just can't stop watching this video: http://bit.ly/cLVi2d . It totally nails what #http #linkeddata #webid #webfinger enable re. #socialweb

(1/11) I've been asked to make a thread of the key principles in my post on how @bsky.app might approach advertising. This will be my first attempt at a thread here, so bear with me. First, this is the piece: battellemedia.com/archives/202...

I’ve added an extended post to the original openlink.bsky.social post on LinkedIn, showcasing how batched LLM interactions can generate Knowledge Graphs from web pages, such as the BBC Good Food Recipes collection. www.linkedin.com/pulse/showca... #GenAI #KnowledgeGraph #GraphRAG #RAG #RDF #AI

For Silicon Valley, January 20, 2025 may be the Day of Jubilee, when a nation that worships wealth and technology turns Big Tech loose to run an uncontrolled experiment on the entire population with AI and crypto. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Here’s the GitHub repository for our Single Page Application (SPA), which enables sending ActivityPub (AP) payloads to compliant servers. To use it, simply authenticate with an identity linked to an AP-compliant profile document. github.com/OpenLinkSoft... #Fediverse #Tools #JavaScript

#LLMs excel at generating structured data. Can we create a virtuous cycle benefiting both #AI Agents & data creators/curators? Our newsletter breaks it down: 1️⃣ Crawl BBC Good Food pages 2️⃣ Generate RDF (JSON-LD) via LLM 3️⃣ Apply ABAC-style acls for secure access 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-...

"..The hacking campaign, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been fully remediated." www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit... BTW -- Self-signed and encrypted #Email is still impeded by #BigTech e.g., #GMAIL. #SMIME

EFF is committed to keeping our privacy and security advice accurate and up-to-date, reflecting the needs of a variety of vulnerable populations. We hope these resources will help you keep yourself and your community safe in dangerous times. You can share this full list from our blog. (13/13)

Despite the rapid pace of technological innovation, one persistent challenge remains: the growing number of apps paired with a diminishing ability to comprehend their underlying data landscapes. This issue always challenges enterprise agility. www.linkedin.com/pulse/enterp... #AI #KnowledgeGraph

The Internet was supposed to be run by lots of different domains, and interesting things happen when you enable that.

This week’s newsletter: “ChatGPT Search == Semantic Web Easy Button!” 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatgp... The notion of a #SemanticWeb is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the Web’s evolution. Thanks to #LLM innovations in natural language processing, it’s now easier to both grasp and use.

"..Many of the apologies offered for Western Union or AT&T's monopoly could have been uttered by the Renfields who carry water for Facebook, Apple and Google." pluralistic.net/2024/07/18/t... #BigTech #Monopoly #Society

This is the nightmare scenario where #AI has the potential to completely upend society as we know it! Consider this advanced notice—once again! joanwestenberg.medium.com/the-death-of... #Society #SocialMedia

Australia set a social media ban for users under 16 this week, but @maryannefranks.bsky.social says enforcing it will be a challenge and risk user privacy. Social media is “asbestos with better PR and a bigger checkbook,” says Roger McNamee (@moonalice.com). “The status quo is intolerable.” #Velshi