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Scottish Water deployed Databricks Genie to enable project teams to query capital investment data in plain English via Microsoft Teams, reducing report searches and wait times while ensuring trusted, governed answers.
AI hallucinations—fabricated or incorrect outputs from generative models—pose growing risks across industries, from legal liability to patient safety, prompting calls for stronger safeguards and governance.
Databricks introduces Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway to automatically match coding tasks to the most cost-effective AI models based on complexity, reducing costs by over 30% while maintaining performance.
Databricks re-architected its serverless platform to deliver network configurations to tens of millions of VMs daily with 97.5% lower latency and 99.99% availability by shifting from synchronous to event-driven...
Amtrak is modernizing its U.S. passenger rail network with new fleets and infrastructure while building a unified data platform on Databricks to integrate real-time telemetry, operational systems, and predictive...
A major Canadian railway automated the modernization of hundreds of legacy data pipelines using Databricks Genie Code, reducing new table ingestion from days to minutes and achieving over 90% automation.
AI is automating routine data tasks, shifting analysts’ focus from technical execution to business judgment and problem framing.
Databricks expands AUTO CDC in Apache Spark 4.2 to support bitemporal compliance and partial updates, addressing real-world challenges in regulatory recordkeeping and data reproducibility.
Databricks has open-sourced Metals v2, extending the Scala language server to support Java and scale for large monorepos, enabling lightweight editors like Cursor and VS Code to handle multi-million line codebases.
Chief Risk Officers face growing pressure to integrate risk management into strategic decision-making, but legacy data architectures hinder timely responses to market shocks like SVB, Archegos, and UK LDI crises.
Databricks has acquired Electric to integrate WASM Postgres into AI agent sandboxes, enabling lightweight local databases and real-time synchronization with centralized Lakebase infrastructure.
Databricks integrates Genie Agents with Unity Catalog to unify structured and unstructured data analysis while enforcing existing governance policies without additional setup.
Databricks introduces a contextual policy in Omnigent to block AI agents from combining legitimate capabilities that enable data theft, addressing the 'lethal trifecta' of private data access, untrusted content...
Databricks introduces FILE, a new column type for storing unstructured data like documents and videos natively in lakehouse tables, enabling AI-ready querying and governance alongside structured data.
Databricks and other large-scale AI adopters outline cost-control strategies for AI coding tools, emphasizing model efficiency, flexible tooling, and progressive spend management to balance productivity gains with...
AI assistants integrate language models, data retrieval, and reasoning to automate enterprise tasks such as generating SQL, building dashboards, and troubleshooting pipelines. The global market for these tools is...
Databricks explains agentic workflows as AI systems that autonomously plan, execute, and refine multi-step tasks, marking a shift from single-prompt interactions to continuous, adaptive processes in enterprise...
Tool calling enables AI models to interact with external systems such as databases, APIs, or code execution environments to perform tasks beyond their internal knowledge, transforming static chatbots into functional...
Databricks released OfficeQA Pro V2, a benchmark testing AI agents' ability to generalize grounded reasoning across unfamiliar enterprise documents, following the original OfficeQA benchmark introduced seven months...
Databricks now offers Kimi K3, an advanced open-weight AI model from Moonshot AI, through its Unity AI Gateway, providing enterprises with high-quality, governed access alongside proprietary models at lower costs.
Databricks outlines a phased migration framework for enterprises moving workloads from BigQuery to its Lakehouse platform, emphasizing assessment, wave-based migration, and dual-operation validation to minimize risk and...
Databricks announced the general availability of Unity AI Gateway, a unified platform for governing AI spend, security, and access across enterprise AI tools and agents.
Databricks has joined the Open Secure AI Alliance to promote open research and tools for AI safety, security, and cyber defense, emphasizing transparency across the full AI agent stack.
Databricks introduces a generative AI system to transform the Monday Morning Report from a data dispute into an actionable brief, integrating real-time signals and governed controls for joint retail and CPG teams.
Databricks has made its Variant data type generally available, enabling faster ingestion and querying of semi-structured data like JSON without sacrificing performance.
Databricks finalized its acquisition of Panther, integrating the AI-driven security operations platform with its Lakewatch agentic SIEM to enhance real-time threat detection and response across unified data lakes.
Databricks demonstrates how Lakebase and Unity Catalog enable a single SQL query to join operational ownership data with cloud billing, eliminating ETL pipelines and improving cost visibility for ephemeral database...
Healthcare leaders are advised to build a sustainable AI strategy by establishing unified data governance and operating models rather than rushing into uncoordinated pilots or tool purchases.
Databricks demonstrates autonomous media buying and selling agents running on its platform, using IAB Tech Lab’s open standards to automate discovery, pricing, and transactions while maintaining governance and...
Databricks introduces an AI-powered converter in Genie Code to translate proprietary SQL dialects into open ANSI SQL, simplifying legacy data warehouse migrations.