Databricks' Zerobus Ingest is a serverless streaming API that enables petabyte-scale data pipelines without manual infrastructure management. Using dynamic partitioning and zero-copy protobuf decoding, it ingested 1 PB from NASA's NEOWISE dataset in 24 hours, sustaining 12 GB/s throughput.

This post demonstrates an intelligent document processing pipeline that consists of both on-demand inference and batch inference options on Amazon Bedrock to enable the flexibility on the document processing time and cost.

ERGO Hestia modernized its real-time pricing engine with Databricks Lakebase and Mosaic AI Model Serving, bringing data, features, and decisions into one lakehouse-native platform for millisecond pricing, faster model deployment, and unified governance.

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts

MIT researchers provide a major upgrade to the nearly century-old idea of random utility models.

AI is reshaping the tech workforce, especially entry-level roles. A Linux Foundation report finds a 27% net increase in European tech hiring, but junior hiring contracted 3% in Europe while growing 14% elsewhere. Companies invest 3.7x more in training existing staff than hiring. The junior role is being redefined, demanding broader skills including AI fluency, security awareness, and business understanding. Forward-deployed engineers emerge as a key new role.

Databricks launched its inaugural Student Fellows cohort, selecting a highly diverse group of students from over 5,000 applications across hundreds of universities worldwide. The fellows, chosen for campus leadership and technical expertise, will bridge academic theory and real-world data/AI practice through workshops, hackathons, and mentorship programs.

GamerForge uses AI to enhance, restore, and modernize digital assets for game development, VFX, and CGI studios. It supports workflows from texture upscaling to scene enhancement, enabling teams to reuse legacy content.

The Hertz Foundation awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students and one incoming graduate student. The fellowship provides five years of financial support and autonomy for groundbreaking research in applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics.

Databricks makes Spatial SQL Generally Available, enabling native geospatial support in the open lakehouse with AI/BI maps, Delta Sharing, and Iceberg v3. Major performance improvements and 90+ ST_ functions.

Microsoft is a Legend Sponsor at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026. The summit will showcase how joint customers use Azure Databricks to modernize data estates, scale AI, and unlock business value. Attendees can visit the Microsoft booth, attend breakout sessions on topics like federated analytics, ecosystem integration, and product announcements. Featured sessions include Unlocking the Microsoft Data & AI Ecosystem, Zero-Copy Federated Energy Analytics, and customer stories from GEODIS and TK Elevator.

Coinbase launches Coinbase for Agents, a standalone tool enabling AI agents to trade cryptocurrency and pay for services directly from assistants like Claude and ChatGPT. Users set spending limits, agents operate in isolated sandboxes, supporting spot and derivatives trading with plans for stocks and prediction markets. Payments use the x402 standard with stablecoins, and security is customizable.

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus has closed a $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation. The company launched just last November with $6.2 billion in seed funding. No products yet, because Bezos says sharing details would be 'premature.'

Deezer now offers a free AI music detector that lets users on any major streaming platform check whether AI-generated songs are hiding in their playlists.

GitHub reduced secret scanning false positives by 75.76% by introducing LLM-based contextual verification, improving alert trustworthiness and developer confidence.

Agent-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) that makes this evaluation infrastructure available by integrating with AI coding assistants, including Claude Code, Kiro CLI, and Kilo Code. This post walks through how Agent-EvalKit works across its six evaluation phases, using a travel research agent built with the Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock as a running example.

OpenAI is considering cutting API token prices to win customers from Anthropic, according to the Wall Street Journal, signaling a potential price war in the AI industry.

Datasette 1.0a33 is a significant alpha release extending the ?_extra= pattern to queries and rows, now documented. An AI-built API explorer demonstrates the feature.

Blueprint instruction optimization, a new feature of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, automatically refines extraction instructions using 3-10 example documents and ground truth values, improving accuracy in minutes without model fine-tuning.

Databricks Marketplace now offers pre-built MCP servers from partners including Climb, Atropos Health, Kythera Labs, and Redox, covering biomedical, clinical evidence, medical semantics, and interoperability. These servers are centrally governed in the MCP Catalog with Unity AI Gateway, enabling rapid development of secure healthcare AI agents via low-code or custom coding.

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Ecolab leveraged Databricks and Anthropic's Claude to unify nine siloed data sources into a single retail intelligence platform, reducing compliance report compilation from two weeks to under two minutes.

Oxlo.ai launches on Product Hunt, offering a single API to access 35+ frontier AI models with fixed monthly subscriptions. It solves cost unpredictability for AI teams by providing predictable billing, model comparison, and response calibration, while never training on user data.

Build the five components every feature store needs, then see where AI changes the design.

Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid a boom in IPOs, driving home prices in the already expensive San Francisco Bay Area even higher. Experts say the trend may continue as companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX plan to go public.

As generative AI evolves into agentic AI, European enterprises face new challenges in data sovereignty, cost control, and infrastructure. This article argues that regional cloud providers like Vultr offer better compliance, performance, and cost efficiency than traditional hyperscalers for agentic workloads.

Funding from investors including Nvidia, Amazon and Qualcomm will support the vendor’s development of humanoid robots and physical AI.

A startup backed by OpenAI is targeting the fintech sector to overhaul enterprise AI automation, aiming to transform business operations.

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma is an experimental open-weight model that uses diffusion to generate text blocks in parallel, offering faster local inference compared to traditional autoregressive models. Built on the Gemma 4 26B A4B MoE architecture, it trades some quality for speed, making it ideal for interactive and editing tasks. The article explains its architecture, how text diffusion works, benchmark results, and provides a step-by-step guide to run it locally using llama.cpp.

Anthropic publishes a sweeping essay and two policy frameworks. The company calls for binding audits of frontier models and paints a picture of AI as a strategic weapon wielded by nation-states.