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Two recent presentations offer a compelling look at how artificial intelligence and database management are evolving to handle complexity and conflict. A new video from H2O.ai, part of a series on enterprise h2oGPTe, demonstrates how large language models can be grounded in proprietary business data. The presentation shows that LLMs do not inherently understand internal products, policies, or customer histories. h2oGPTe bridges this gap by ingesting over 50 file formats, including documents, audio, and video, using multi-engine OCR and native connectors for platforms like SharePoint and S3. This multimodal RAG approach, combined with hybrid search and autonomous agent workflows, enables enterprises to build AI systems that operate on verified, internal information rather than general knowledge.

Meanwhile, a talk from the FOSSASIA Summit 2026 by Gary Evans tackles the challenge of data consistency in PostgreSQL. As logical replication powers migrations, upgrades, and active/active architectures, the risk of conflict between databases increases. The presentation explores major improvements in PostgreSQL 18 that provide explicit conflict detection, classification, and observability. Through live demonstrations, the content shows how these new tools allow engineers to manage disagreements between databases intelligently, moving from simple error handling to smarter conflict management. Together, these two pieces highlight a shared theme: the need