A data engineer replaced 1,000 brittle rules with three AI calls in a hybrid data quality framework on Databricks SQL, using deterministic checks for speed and AI for semantic judgment to audit messy …
A new framework called PixelRAG, developed by researchers from UC Berkeley, Princeton, EPFL, and Databricks, bypasses text parsing by rendering web pages as screenshot tiles for retrieval-augmented ge…
Databricks announced Lakehouse Federation, a feature that connects Genie to external data sources like AWS Glue, Snowflake, and BigQuery without requiring data migration. The tool syncs metadata into …
Customer segmentation divides an existing customer base into groups based on shared characteristics such as demographics, behaviors, geography or economic value, enabling tailored marketing, products …
Upriver, a San Francisco-based AI-native data engineering platform, raised $14 million in seed funding on June 8, 2026, led by Valley Capital Partners and Hetz Ventures. The company's platform autonom…
Mercedes-Benz Korea and Databricks piloted an AI-powered "Talk to Data" system using Unity Catalog, Metric Views, Genie, and Agent Bricks to deliver governed, explainable analytics at enterprise scale…
Databricks launched a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization to accelerate customer business outcomes with AI, formalizing a practice that has embedded engineers alongside clients like Fox Co…
L&T Technology Services (LTTS) announced a strategic go-to-market partnership with Databricks to co-develop Industrial AI solutions for asset-intensive industries. The collaboration will combine LTTS'…
ERGO Hestia, a leading Polish insurer, reduced its time-to-market for pricing models by adopting Databricks' Lakebase and Mosaic AI Model Serving to unify data and model serving within a single lakeho…
Databricks announced its inaugural cohort of Student Fellows, selecting 30 students from over 5,000 applicants across hundreds of universities worldwide. The fellows, chosen for their campus leadershi…
Databricks announced the general availability of Spatial SQL, enabling organizations to perform geospatial analysis directly within its lakehouse platform without requiring separate spatial databases …
Microsoft and Databricks will co-host the Data + AI Summit 2026 from June 15-18 in San Francisco and virtually, showcasing how organizations can unify data, analytics, and AI on a secure, scalable fou…
Arize Data Fabric now supports Databricks, enabling teams to sync production agent traces, evaluations, and annotations into customer-owned cloud storage and register them in Unity Catalog. This integ…
Ecolab deployed Anthropic's Claude Sonnet and Haiku on Databricks Foundation Model APIs to convert 700-page FDA food safety manuals into real-time, cited answers for frontline retail staff. The soluti…
Databricks on Wednesday unveiled OpenSharing, a new open protocol that enables enterprises to share AI models, agent skills, dashboards, and unstructured data across platforms without copying or movin…
Howden Group CDO Barry Panayi argues that traditional data product models fail at acquisition pace, urging companies to build open, governed data services instead of pre-defined product catalogs. Howd…
Aer Lingus is redirecting a significant portion of its IT and change spend toward a unified data platform powered by Databricks, prioritizing data literacy and governance over chasing new AI tools. Ch…
AWS and Databricks showcased deeper integrations and expanded customer stories at the Data + AI Summit 2026, highlighting how enterprises like Mastercard are using the Databricks Platform on AWS to op…
Rivian partnered with Databricks to build a governed intelligence layer that supports self-service analytics, natural-language exploration, and AI-powered workflows from a single trusted foundation. T…
The Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project to standardize AI asset and data exchange across organizations and platforms. Databricks contributed its Delta Sharing protocol to the initiative…