Trackunit has built IrisX, an operating data platform on Databricks, to help construction companies reduce equipment downtime by connecting fragmented data and applying AI for operational decisions. T…
Databricks' AI Runtime introduces APIs for fast, fault-tolerant PyTorch training, emphasizing that GPU failures are expected at scale and that data pipeline and checkpointing choices determine goodput…
Databricks will present four papers and a keynote at VLDB 2026, introducing Lakebase, a serverless Postgres over open lake storage, and LTAP, a paradigm unifying transactional and analytical processin…
Databricks Inc. announced that structured chart extraction via its ai_parse_document function, combined with lightweight text retrieval, improves chart retrieval and agent answer accuracy, outperformi…
Databricks reported that adoption of its Lakebase Postgres database has grown at more than twice the rate of its data warehousing product since launch, with thousands of companies running production w…
Databricks has launched Lakebase Postgres, a new database product that combines object storage with write-ahead logging (WAL) to support data applications and AI agents. The product is positioned as a…
Databricks has launched Governance Hub, a centralized account-level platform in Beta that provides data health, AI usage, and cost insights with prioritized recommendations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.…
Databricks Inc. published a FISC Customer Capabilities Mapping Matrix linking Japan's FISC Security Guidelines for banking and financial institutions to specific Databricks Data Intelligence Platform …
Databricks, a data and AI company, reported that its capital markets finance solutions help protect balance sheet returns by enabling financial institutions to manage data, analytics, and AI workloads…
Databricks Inc. announced updates to its IDE experience, enabling developers to connect VS Code, Cursor, or a terminal directly to Databricks compute via a new SSH tunnel, allowing them to run, debug,…
Databricks has built AI SRE, an AI-powered debugging agent that automatically investigates incidents across its 1500+ Kubernetes clusters, 70+ regions, and three clouds, correlating signals from platf…
Databricks introduced Genie One and Genie Code, which allow users to create domain-specific AI agents from a single prompt, leveraging context from Unity Catalog. The new capabilities reduce the need …
Databricks introduced Precision Mode in its AI Extract document extraction API, claiming state-of-the-art accuracy on complex enterprise documents. In benchmarks spanning roughly 9,000 documents, Prec…
Databricks Inc. is positioning its platform as a 'control plane for context' to help retailers scale AI across stores, headquarters, and digital channels while maintaining governance over sensitive cu…
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 …
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 prototyping tax—the gap between an AI idea and a working prototype—is killing more AI roadmaps than model limitations, according to Navdeep Alam and Zhe Sun, who argue that traditional R&D wasn't …
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…
Scottish Water deployed Databricks Genie, integrated with Microsoft Teams via Copilot, to let Capital Investment teams query governed project data in plain English, cutting a typical lookup from about…
AI hallucinations are fabricated or incorrect responses produced by AI models, and they are a built-in property of how these models work, not rare edge cases. High-profile incidents include Google's B…