Databricks launched Lakebase Search, a hybrid vector and full-text retrieval system built into Lakebase Postgres, now in beta on AWS and Azure. The system uses tiered storage to keep active data in RA…
Databricks announced CustomerLake, an Agentic Customer Data Platform (CDP) natively embedded in Databricks, at the Data + AI Summit. The platform enables marketers and data teams to deploy AI agents f…
The Linux Foundation took custody of OpenSharing on June 10, an open protocol that extends Delta Sharing to support AI models and agent skills as shareable assets. OpenSharing adds six asset types und…
Databricks announced Lakehouse//RT, a new real-time data warehouse that delivers millisecond performance directly on the lakehouse without requiring separate systems or data movement. Powered by the R…
Monte Carlo announced support for Databricks' Agent Bricks platform, extending its observability coverage to AI agents built on enterprise data. The integration creates a continuous audit trail from r…
Cursor's Head of Security Travis McPeak warned that AI coding agents must never be trusted, advocating for secure-by-default workflows to contain damage when agents inevitably misbehave. Speaking on t…
Databricks announced the winners of its 2026 Global Partner Awards at the Data + AI Summit, recognizing over 65 partners for their achievements. Accenture/Avanade won Global Partner of the Year for th…
O'Reilly Media listed a new book, 'ML and Generative AI in the Data Lakehouse,' for June 2026, covering Databricks platform, MLflow, Unity Catalog, and responsible AI. The 448-page title targets inter…
Arize AI and Databricks announced a dual-export capability for OpenTelemetry traces, allowing teams to send the same production traces to both Arize AX for operational debugging and Databricks Unity C…
Gartner predicts universal semantic layers (USLs) will become critical infrastructure by 2030, with 44% of data leaders already implementing them. However, CIOs remain skeptical due to past hype cycle…
T1A will showcase its full data stack, including five products and a subscription giveaway, at Dais 2026. The company's LakeSentry platform provides Databricks cost intelligence, enabling teams to det…
Document AI uses machine learning, natural language processing, and optical character recognition to automatically extract, classify, and understand information from documents, transforming them into …
Omnigent launched an open-source platform that provides a unified layer over AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi, enabling users to swap or combine harnesses, enforce policies and sandbox…
A developer built Lynkr, a self-hosted LLM gateway, to reduce costs in Microsoft Agent Framework workloads. The gateway adds semantic caching, response compression, and model tiering to cut token usag…
UC Berkeley doctoral student Yichuan Wang and collaborators from UC Berkeley, Princeton, EPFL and Databricks published PixelRAG, a research system that bypasses text parsing by rendering web pages as …
Databricks released Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness for AI agents under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool provides a common interface above command-line agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Pi, en…
Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia and Kasey Uhlenhuth open-sourced Omnigent, an Apache 2.0 alpha project described as a "meta harness" for AI agents. The tool sits above existing agent harne…
Databricks open-sourced Omnigent, a meta-harness that sits above existing AI agents to enable composition, control, and collaboration. The tool addresses the fragmentation of agent harnesses by provid…
MLflow, the open-source MLOps platform originally created by Databricks, has evolved into MLflow 3.x to manage the lifecycle of machine learning and AI models, including LLMs and multi-agent systems. …
Kim Hatton, Global Financial Services Marketing Leader at Databricks, discusses her career journey from marketing regulated financial products to leading data platform marketing, highlighting how Data…