Databricks chief information officer Naveen Zutshi was named an Executive of the Year for deploying Genie, an AI agent that lets the company's roughly 11,000 employees query internal data, conduct res…
Databricks IT detailed a four-layer mobile security model for personal devices — device management, authentication, zero trust, and application management — built on Account-Driven User Enrollment (AD…
Uber laid off about 3,300 employees earlier this month, including all six recently laid-off workers who told Business Insider that AI tools such as Genie, Glean, Gemini, and ChatGPT had taken over tas…
Databricks' marketing department uses data 3X more often in decisions after deploying Marge, a conversational analytics assistant built on Genie Agents and grounded in a governed Marketing Lakehouse, …
ByteDance, parent company of TikTok, is reportedly developing an AI model for creating real-time spatial videos, aiming to rival Google's Genie, according to Bloomberg. The model is intended to serve …
Google Cloud's director of gaming, Jack Buser, is pitching the company's AI models, including Genie, Veo, and Gemini, to a skeptical gaming industry, arguing that AI can address the industry's challen…
Databricks announced general availability of Lakebase, its serverless Postgres product for AI agents, which reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue in its first year. The company also closed …
New research from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab shows that world models like Sora or Genie, which only simulate physics, fail to predict human actions because they ignore beliefs, intentions, and …
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…
Energy CFOs face widening volatility as AI-driven demand pushes wholesale power prices near data centers up to 267% above normal, according to Bloomberg. Databricks introduced Genie, a data-smart AI c…
An estimated $1.7 trillion sits trapped in excess working capital across large US companies, according to The Hackett Group, as manufacturing finance faces rising complexity from AI and agents. Databr…
Databricks turned Genie into a pay-as-you-go service on July 8, with service principals receiving no free allowance and being billed from the first token, signaling that the industry's GenBI economics…
Databricks has published a cheatsheet for its Certified Context Engineer Associate exam, detailing the seven exam sections, context failure modes, and product stack recommendations. The guide covers t…
Databricks turned Genie's meter on July 8, switching to pay-as-you-go pricing with a free monthly allowance for users but billing service principals from the first token, signaling that autonomous age…
Microsoft and Databricks announced on July 23 that they extended their strategic partnership into the 2030s, with Databricks committing to run core operations on Azure Databricks and expand use of Azu…
Cisco AI engineer Shridhar Shah built a tiny multi-agent system where an agent learns to hallucinate future frames of a predator-prey game and then practices inside its own dream. Shah found that a dr…
Databricks Inc. is finalizing a funding round that will value it at $188 billion, with Coatue leading the $3 billion investment. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its AI capabilities, fo…
Databricks announced strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation, led by existing investor Coatue, to accelerate its AI strategy. The company will use the capital to strengthen Unity AI Gateway, exp…
Databricks introduced the industry's first Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate beta exam at Data + AI Summit last month, validating skills for engineering production-grade AI agent systems…