Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it is acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a major jump from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders receiving $1.5 billion and investors $6 bil…
Databricks introduced Genie One and Genie Code, which allow users to create domain-specific AI agents from a single prompt, leveraging context from Unity Catalog. The new capabilities reduce the need …
OceanBase CTO Charlie Yang outlined the company's roadmap to rival Databricks as an AI data platform at OceanBase Hours in Singapore, arguing that databases can serve as the foundation for AI data pla…
Databricks acquired Electric, the team behind the WebAssembly Postgres project PGlite and the Electric sync engine, on August 11, with Electric joining Neon, the serverless Postgres company Databricks…
Databricks introduced Precision Mode in its AI Extract document extraction API, claiming state-of-the-art accuracy on complex enterprise documents. In benchmarks spanning roughly 9,000 documents, Prec…
The Justice Department is examining whether Andreessen Horowitz created an illegal board interlock by placing partners at two enterprise data companies that compete in parts of the same market, accord…
A developer warns that AI assistants may be collecting more personal and business information than users realize, as each interaction can reveal sensitive details. The post advises users to strip unne…
An enterprise internal developer platform typically run by a ~60-person product organisation costs roughly $7.5 million a year, and organizations must assess agent-native readiness and ROI before rebu…
A developer compared Snowflake Cortex Analyst and Databricks Genie, finding both require hand-curated context to function well and degrade silently outside that curation. The analysis concludes that c…
Databricks reported that Stanford's team won its June 17 Grounded Reasoning Cup with 63.3% accuracy on OfficeQA Pro V2, a held-out benchmark built from about 120,000 pages of U.S. Treasury documents, …
The US Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over allegations that its partners sit on the boards of competing data companies Databricks and Fivetran simultaneou…
Databricks hosted the inaugural Grounded Reasoning Cup, a live AI competition where 11 academic teams from the U.S. and Canada built AI agents to reason over enterprise document collections. Stanford …
Watermarking text generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult than it appears, according to a technical analysis. Current methods, which force models to select tokens from a 'green-lis…
Databricks announced that its Feature Store now serves machine learning features with sub-second freshness, achieving an end-to-end p99 latency of 200ms from event arrival in Kafka to availability in …
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over board seats held by its partners at data companies Databricks and Fivetran, examining whether the roles viola…
Nvidia is investing $26 billion in nearly open-source AI models, aiming to enable widespread model building and increase demand for its chips, according to a report by Wired. The company's strategy, h…
Neon has launched Neon AI Gateway, a service that integrates large language model (LLM) calls into its backend platform, allowing developers to access models from providers like OpenAI, Google, and An…
A Databricks and Economist survey found that 40% of respondents believe their organization's AI governance program is insufficient, and Microsoft's Data Security Index reports only 47% of organization…
A new analysis warns that AI-driven efficiency gains could increase global carbon emissions, citing Jevons Paradox: as AI lowers production costs, demand rises, potentially leading to more energy cons…
A new wave of AI coding harnesses—including Databricks' Omnigent, DeepSeek Harness, Block's Buzz, Y Combinator's QM, Cloudflare's Flue, and Meta's Muse Code—is converging on a common architecture that…