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…
Databricks launched Genie One, an AI assistant for data-driven work that uses a shared context layer spanning Databricks data, documents, SaaS applications, and operational systems, to help business u…
Apache Spark 4.2 is now available in Databricks Runtime 19 Beta, introducing governed metrics, vector and top-K primitives, an Arrow-first Python path, first-class change data capture, and stronger st…
Databricks announced Thinking Machines Lab's open-weights model Inkling is now available on the Databricks platform through Unity AI Gateway, enabling enterprise customers to build agents and applicat…
Enterprise AI agents should run inside the data platform rather than pulling data out into a separate AI stack, argue Kaan Kuguoglu and John Karlsson in a blog post. The authors warn that post-hoc gov…
Databricks is enabling higher education institutions to scale limited advisory resources by deploying AI-powered call center analysis on its unified data platform, using OpenAI Whisper for transcripti…
Databricks released Genie One mobile apps for iOS and Android, bringing its data-smart AI coworker to business users on the go. The app lets users ask natural-language questions of their data, view da…
Retail finance teams are using agentic AI to protect omni-channel margins as complexity from multiple channels, fulfillment paths, and returns grows. Gartner expects agentic AI to make 15 percent of d…
Databricks launched Lakebase, a fully managed, serverless Postgres database built for the agentic era, alongside partner accelerators for automated database migration, stateful memory for agentic AI, …
Databricks researchers Nishith Sinha and Matei Zaharia demonstrated that a slow-burn prompt injection attack, which breaks data theft into individually harmless steps, can be blocked by a single conte…
Python has become the default language for data-intensive work, AI applications and internal tooling, creating a new hosting problem that is fundamentally a data architecture question. For apps involv…
Acxiom Chief Cloud and Data Modernization Officer Ankur Jain argues that organizations must modernize their data infrastructure before building agentic AI, warning that legacy systems create immediate…
Databricks announced the Public Preview of Feature Views, a managed framework for building, serving, and governing ML features within its platform. The feature allows data scientists to define feature…
Databricks held its fifth Genie Hackathon, where teams built projects using Databricks Genie products that let users work with data in plain English. OneTrust built a supervisory layer to shard data a…
Databricks released an internal benchmark evaluating coding agents on its multi-million line codebase, finding that models like GLM 5.2 offer top-tier performance at lower cost than alternatives like …
Enterprise analytics platform evaluations should focus on architecture decisions rather than dashboard comparisons, according to a Databricks blog post. The post argues that unified platforms combinin…
Barracuda Networks launched AI-Powered Log Search, built on Databricks Genie, inside its Managed XDR platform to let security analysts query logs using natural language instead of SQL. The feature red…
Databricks launched Omnigent, an open source meta-harness for AI agents that introduces contextual policies to track session history and govern agent actions based on accumulated risk, spending, or be…
At the Data + AI Summit 2026, Databricks and OpenAI showcased their partnership to help enterprises deploy AI agents in production, with OpenAI providing frontier intelligence and Databricks offering …
A survey of over 1,200 IT leaders finds 60% of businesses already use autonomous systems, 90% of executives say AI rollouts exceed expectations, and 75% have reworked job titles for AI. To move from e…