Harnesses are Situated Agents
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…
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…
Databricks introduced AI Functions in its Lakehouse platform, enabling users to run AI workloads directly in SQL queries without moving data to separate AI environments. The functions, including ai_pa…
Clear Street Managing Director Owen Lau compared Databricks to Android as an open-source alternative to Snowflake, highlighting margin pressures and ROI debates around Databricks' serverless AI model …
Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, with CEO Ali Ghodsi stating that AGI has already arrived and the model race is over, emphasizing that companies owning data co…
Databricks has acquired Electric, a startup specializing in WebAssembly-based Postgres databases, to embed local databases directly into AI agent environments. The technology, including PGlite and Ele…
Semantica, an open-source knowledge graph platform, provides deterministic reasoning, context graphs, and W3C PROV-O provenance to make AI decisions auditable and explainable, targeting regulated ente…
Gartner is hiring a Data Scientist for its Insights & Product Analytics team in Gurgaon, India, to work on high-impact data science initiatives involving NLP, machine learning, deep learning, and gene…
Mixedbread AI released Toast 1, a specialized search agent that matches or outperforms Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster. In Databricks' OfficeQA Pro V2 benchm…
Databricks is hiring an Engineering Manager for CustomerLake Profile Agents in New York City, with a salary range of $190,000–$261,000 per year. The role involves leading the team that builds Profile …
Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, up from its earlier $188 billion valuation, after investor demand reached $15 billion against the company's initial target of $1 billion, CEO …
Databricks launched Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway, now in Beta, which automatically matches coding tasks to the most cost-effective model and harness, achieving 30%+ lower cost per task while matc…
Databricks is acquiring Electric to bring PGlite, a WebAssembly-based Postgres database that runs locally in browsers and Node.js, and its synchronization engine into its Lakebase architecture for AI …
Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale, allowing users to store vector embeddings alongside operational data and run similarity searches with single-digit millisecond latenc…
Databricks announced it crossed $7 billion in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2, and raised $5 billion in its latest fundraise. The company reported $100 million+ revenue run-rat…
Databricks closed a funding round at a $188 billion valuation, led by Coatue Management with roughly $3 billion invested, nearly tripling its valuation from $62 billion in late 2024. The company repor…
Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, capitalizing on the agentic AI wave. The company, a data and AI platform provider, will use the funds to accelerate innovation…
Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, with CEO Ali Ghodsi claiming that AGI has already arrived, but the key to unlocking its potential lies in context that models currently lack.…
Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that provides WebAssembly-based Postgres databases for application environments, for an undisclosed sum, to enable developers to run data closer to AI agent…
Microsoft's Fabric IQ workload introduces Ontology, a feature in public preview that gives data a shared business meaning by defining concepts and relationships independent of physical data storage. T…
XAI and Databricks announced a partnership on June 18 at the 2026 Data + AI Summit to integrate Grok models natively into Databricks' Agent Bricks platform, targeting enterprise document understanding…