Databricks hosted the inaugural Grounded Reasoning Cup, a live AI competition where 11 academic teams from the U.S. and Canada built AI agents to reason over enterprise document collections. Stanford …
Watermarking text generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult than it appears, according to a technical analysis. Current methods, which force models to select tokens from a 'green-lis…
Databricks announced that its Feature Store now serves machine learning features with sub-second freshness, achieving an end-to-end p99 latency of 200ms from event arrival in Kafka to availability in …
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over board seats held by its partners at data companies Databricks and Fivetran, examining whether the roles viola…
Nvidia is investing $26 billion in nearly open-source AI models, aiming to enable widespread model building and increase demand for its chips, according to a report by Wired. The company's strategy, h…
Neon has launched Neon AI Gateway, a service that integrates large language model (LLM) calls into its backend platform, allowing developers to access models from providers like OpenAI, Google, and An…
A Databricks and Economist survey found that 40% of respondents believe their organization's AI governance program is insufficient, and Microsoft's Data Security Index reports only 47% of organization…
A new analysis warns that AI-driven efficiency gains could increase global carbon emissions, citing Jevons Paradox: as AI lowers production costs, demand rises, potentially leading to more energy cons…
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 …