What's new in CARTO - Q3 2026

Lucía García-Duarte & Miguel Álvarez · Oct 13, 2026

How we built PlacePulse, CARTO's first geospatial foundation model: what its 256-number embeddings capture and how they perform across 74 prediction tasks.

Helen McKenzie · Oct 7, 2026

Spatial work is slow because of disconnected tools, scarce specialists, and endless rebuilds. Here's how AI in GIS done right fixes all three.

Lucía García-Duarte · Oct 5, 2026

Five new CARTO Workflows components for geo-embeddings: score unusual places, map local heterogeneity, aggregate to any geography, and build market profiles.

Helen McKenzie · Sep 30, 2026

Public sector GIS teams are changing how they rebuild apps, where they analyze data, and who gets to ask spatial questions. Five patterns, and what to do next.

Javier de la Torre · Sep 29, 2026

CARTO joins a European Commission DG DEFIS study on a common EU framework for core geospatial data: AI-ready, sovereign, scalable and interoperable.

Candice Julka · Sep 29, 2026

CARTO and Ubilabs partner to bring Agentic GIS to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, pairing cloud-native spatial analysis with 20 years of geodata know-how.

Helen McKenzie · Sep 24, 2026

Web AppBuilder, Classic Story Maps and more ArcGIS apps are retiring. What's going and when, what the rebuild costs, and how to rebuild better.

Javier Pérez Trufero · Sep 17, 2026

Connect the CARTO MCP Server and Agent Skills to Databricks Genie Code and give it specialized geospatial analysis, workflows, and visualization.

Javier Pérez Trufero & Ana Manzanares · Sep 14, 2026

Register the CARTO MCP Server in Snowflake and let CoWork agents build maps and run spatial analysis on your Snowflake data, under your own controls.