Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, organizing control around models, MCP servers, and tools rather than APIs, with support for OpenAI, Anthropic,…
Agentic workflows, which enable AI agents to plan, execute, and refine multi-step tasks autonomously, are emerging as the operational layer for enterprise AI, according to Databricks. Gartner predicts…
Tool calling is the process by which AI models invoke external tools, APIs, or systems to perform actions and retrieve information beyond their training data, enabling AI agents to take action. Accord…
Databricks released OfficeQA Pro V2, a benchmark with 90 questions grounded in about 120,000 pages of U.S. Treasury data, finding that out-of-the-box frontier agents averaged 37.5% accuracy, while age…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, an open-weight model ranking #4 with a score of 57 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, is now available on Databricks through Unity AI Gateway, offering enterprises a fr…
A joint post from Neon, Databricks' serverless-Postgres arm, and Castform, an RL post-training startup, claims a 4B open-weights model can match GPT-5.6 Sol on agentic retrieval at roughly 1/100th the…
A 2026 comparison of Amazon Redshift alternatives finds ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks each optimized for different workloads, with ClickHouse leading in real-time, high-concurrency a…
OpenAI's finance department, led by CFO Sarah Friar, is using ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that automates tasks like monthly close and forecasting, with the strategic finance team reporting tasks complet…
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform, featuring the Arm-based Vera CPU, is moving into production with support from 300 global partners, and early results from CoreWeave show it delivering 10 times more throu…
Mastercard is hiring an AI Engineer for its Global Business Services Center in Pune, India, to design and implement AI and Generative AI solutions using LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, and RAG architectu…
A Databricks-focused consultancy, Zephico, breaks down the real costs of migrating from Snowflake to Databricks, arguing that the true benefits come from moving for ML and streaming workloads rather t…
Databricks announced the General Availability of Unity AI Gateway, a platform for managing AI spend and enforcing security across AI agents and assets, with over a quadrillion tokens processed in the …
Databricks has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance as a founding member alongside NVIDIA and more than 75 organizations to advance AI safety and security through open frameworks. The alliance aims to s…
Databricks published an internal coding-agent benchmark on July 8 using tasks from its multi-million-line codebase, reporting that model choice, task difficulty, token use, and the agent harness affec…
Pi, a minimal coding harness from earendil-works, outperformed Claude Code and Codex at lower cost in Databricks' benchmark of coding agents on its multi-million line codebase, and Shopify built its p…
PostHog has published 226 skills to its internal skill store and maintains 187 SKILL.md files across 28 products, using them to improve both PostHog and individual workflows. The company emphasizes pr…
Generative AI can transform the Monday Morning Report for retail and CPG partnerships from a ritual of reconciling conflicting data into an intelligent decision system that surfaces ranked watch outs …
Databricks has completed its acquisition of Panther, an AI SOC platform, to accelerate its security lakehouse vision by integrating Panther's 100+ out-of-the-box integrations with Lakewatch, its agent…
PitchBook data shows $1,786.8 billion in US VC-backed IPO value through July 28, 2026, but SpaceX's June 12 IPO at a $1.77 trillion valuation accounts for about $1,770 billion of that total, leaving t…
Databricks Lakebase, a Postgres-compatible database with decoupled storage on lake storage, enables sub-second branching and ephemeral instances, making it suitable for agentic data projects that need…