Databricks will present its work on Spark Declarative Pipelines at SIGMOD 2026, where the paper has received an honorable mention award. The company's Enzyme system introduces innovations in increment…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, delivering performance improvements across coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks while introducing a new emphasis on honesty by making the model more lik…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round on Thursday, achieving a $965 billion valuation that makes it the most valuable private company in history and nearly the first trillion-dollar…
Enterprise leaders from Danone, Capital One, Warner Bros. Discovery, Ford Credit, Gilead Sciences, and Databricks shared five key practices for scaling AI agents across organizations, emphasizing that…
Databricks announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg v3, Managed Iceberg, and Foreign Iceberg in Unity Catalog, making it the most comprehensive and interoperable Iceberg catalog on the mar…
Neo4j announced Neo4j Virtual Graph, a zero-copy architecture that lets enterprises run Cypher queries and graph algorithms directly on data in Snowflake, Databricks, and other databases without movin…
Databricks co-founder and SVP of field engineering Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji will argue at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that enterprise AI deals fail not because of model performance but because deployments…
Databricks has built an inference platform serving over 125 trillion tokens per month across frontier models including OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude for major agentic applications like Superhuman and Fox…
Registration for the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (ACM CAIS 2026) has reached capacity, with a waitlist now open. The four-day event, running from May 26–29 in San Jose, California, will f…
Databricks co-founder Reynold Xin and Ada CEO Mike Murchison told a University of Toronto convocation event that Gen Z backlash against artificial intelligence stems from legitimate fears about job di…
Acceldata claimed its Autonomous Data & AI Platform signals "the end of the data lakehouse era," arguing that lakehouse architecture designed for human access fails in the agentic era. AWS launched Am…
PrivatePulse has launched a free tool that lets private company employees estimate the real-world value of their equity by comparing secondary market prices from Hiive and Forge against primary round …
Databricks released a new feature that simplifies how Power BI customers manage data and build AI agents on its platform, effectively diverting workloads from Microsoft's competing Fabric offering. Th…
The article explains that data engineering is shifting from complex distributed clusters to single-node processing, driven by modern hardware with many cores and large memory, as well as new tools lik…
To integrate Hermes, an open-source AI agent by Nous Research, with Lynkr, a self-hosted Node.js proxy that routes requests to various LLM providers. Lynkr enables automatic cost-tier routing based on…
Andrej Karpathy's new Autoresearch method automates the experimental loop, running up to 100 AI experiments overnight while the user sleeps. The system autonomously tests ideas, discards failures, and…
The article corrects a previous analysis that claimed 26 of 39 AI companies were vulnerable to email spoofing due to SPF softfail settings. The author explains that SPF alone is misleading, as DMARC e…
In 2026, AI has become the foundational layer for startups, with AI companies capturing 89% of total venture capital deployed in February 2026 ($55.37 billion across 189 deals) and global startup fund…
Ion Stoica, a UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks, delivered a keynote at Alumni House tracing how research problems led to foundational technologies like Apache Spark and Ray, which po…
Neon and Databricks Lakebase are redesigning their cloud infrastructure to handle the surge in agent-driven workloads, which are creating databases and scaling compute at rates far exceeding human ope…