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 re-architected its network configuration delivery for serverless VMs, cutting RPC latency by 97.5% from 5,000ms to 125ms and raising server success rate to 99.99% from 99.8%, serving billio…
A major Canadian freight railroad spanning roughly 20,000 route miles and moving over C$250 billion in goods annually used Databricks' Genie Code, Unity Catalog, custom Agent Skills, and a Streamlit a…
AI is automating SQL, dashboards, and ad-hoc analysis, but the future of data analytics is not fewer analysts; it's analysts who lead with judgment, not queries, according to Emma Stowell, Angus Morsh…
Databricks has open-sourced Metals v2, a Java and Scala language server designed for multi-million line codebases, enabling lightweight editors like Cursor, VS Code, and Neovim to handle large JVM mon…
Databricks advocates for a real-time, AI-driven risk management foundation for Chief Risk Officers, citing Deloitte survey data showing over 90% of respondents believe risk management is increasingly …
Databricks has acquired Electric, the company behind PGlite and a real-time sync engine, to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes and extend its Postgres capabilities from the lakehouse to the edg…
Databricks introduced Omnigent contextual policies to block the 'lethal trifecta' of AI agent data theft, where a single session combines private data access, untrusted content, and an outbound commun…
Databricks announced the beta of FILE type, a new native column type for multimodal data that stores unstructured data as a governed column in tables, making it AI-ready and queryable alongside struct…
Databricks reports that agentic coding tools have improved velocity metrics and driven order-of-magnitude gains in some teams, but warns that exponentially growing costs are unsustainable and could ov…
The global AI assistant market was valued at $19.1 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $114.1 billion by 2035, according to MarketsandMarkets. Databricks reports that over 72% of Genie Code user…
Agentic workflows, which enable AI agents to plan, execute, and refine multi-step tasks autonomously, are emerging as the operational layer for enterprise AI, according to Databricks. Gartner predicts…
Tool calling is the process by which AI models invoke external tools, APIs, or systems to perform actions and retrieve information beyond their training data, enabling AI agents to take action. Accord…
Databricks released OfficeQA Pro V2, a benchmark with 90 questions grounded in about 120,000 pages of U.S. Treasury data, finding that out-of-the-box frontier agents averaged 37.5% accuracy, while age…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, an open-weight model ranking #4 with a score of 57 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, is now available on Databricks through Unity AI Gateway, offering enterprises a fr…
Databricks announced the General Availability of Unity AI Gateway, a platform for managing AI spend and enforcing security across AI agents and assets, with over a quadrillion tokens processed in the …
Databricks has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance as a founding member alongside NVIDIA and more than 75 organizations to advance AI safety and security through open frameworks. The alliance aims to s…
Generative AI can transform the Monday Morning Report for retail and CPG partnerships from a ritual of reconciling conflicting data into an intelligent decision system that surfaces ranked watch outs …
Databricks has completed its acquisition of Panther, an AI SOC platform, to accelerate its security lakehouse vision by integrating Panther's 100+ out-of-the-box integrations with Lakewatch, its agent…
A 2025 HFMA survey of 233 health systems found 88% already using AI but only 18% with mature governance and a fully formed AI strategy, according to a blog post by Ramiz Bozai, Sailesh Kadam, Kriti Se…