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Databricks is a data and AI platform company that pioneered the "lakehouse" architecture, offering tools for data engineering, analytics, and machine learning.
Stripe Data Pipeline now streams Stripe API data into a Postgres database in public preview, according to Neon. Teams that sync subscription state by webhook or API could drop that code, if the sync holds up in preview.
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Databricks says its LLM pipeline fails to reach a decisive malicious verdict on 14.4% of npm malware that bundles a binary, against 6.2% for source-only packages. Those binary packages are 432 of 11,413 scanned versions, and Databricks tests feeding the model pre-computed static evidence as the fix.
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Band launched Band for Developers, a desktop app that lets one engineer manage several coding agents from a single dashboard. In SiliconANGLE's account the developer still makes the calls between agents, so the shared context sits with the person.
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Stack Overflow's survey puts PostgreSQL first among developers' preferred databases for a fourth straight year. Databricks says agents spin up 80% of enterprise databases, so the planning number is databases per administrator.
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Workday made its MCP server, SQL access to live data and a shared agent runtime generally available on Tuesday. Agents built in Claude Code or Cursor run under the signed-in user's permissions, the company says.
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Databricks added four SQL-native predictive functions in Beta and upgraded ai_forecast, according to its own blog post. Analysts can run them without training a model, but the post puts no number on the accuracy gain.
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Databricks tests Lakebase Search on 1M to 4M rows, using a 23,000-row internal app as its baseline. A search request touches two computes, the app's and the database's, and either one can set the limit.
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Databricks put Private Network Gateway into public preview on Azure and private preview on AWS, giving serverless compute one connection per network. The company says more than 75% of customers it interviewed named networking as the main reason some workloads stayed on classic compute.
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A Delta Lake benchmark on 50 million records found ZOrder 78% slower than date partitioning on time ranges when date was a secondary key. Its author makes Liquid Clustering the default for diverse or evolving query patterns on the strength of a single benchmark.
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Anthropic's Claude Dashboards, now in beta on paid plans, shows the SQL query behind any number a user clicks. The New Stack reported that Anthropic has not yet said whose credentials run each refresh, a detail data teams need before connecting a production warehouse.
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Databricks opened a public Beta of a Unity Catalog connector that queries Workday HR and finance data in place, without copying it. The company's own guidance keeps history-tracked reporting on its separate Lakeflow Connect ingestion path.
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Databricks has released Funke, a PySpark library and streaming pipeline that parses HL7v2 messages directly into a native Spark column. Teams that use it to replace a FHIR converter or a flattening vendor take on the gold-layer field mapping themselves, sender quirks included.
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OpenAI and Anthropic raised more than $200 billion of the record $515.8 billion invested in US startups through September, PitchBook-NVCA data shows. With IPOs slipping, a venture-backed vendor that exits is likelier to be sold, often below its last private price.
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Investors put $92 billion into North American startups in the third quarter, 35% less than in the second, Crunchbase data show. Crunchbase ties most of the gap to OpenAI and Anthropic skipping megarounds, so the swing measures two companies' calendars more than investor appetite.
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Databricks made on-behalf-of-user authorization generally available in Databricks Apps, so queries run under the signed-in user's Unity Catalog permissions. Row filters and column masks apply without app code, so the builder's remaining job is choosing which identity each request carries.
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Startups raised $159 billion in Q3 2026, the year's weakest quarter so far, yet a record 27 companies closed billion-dollar rounds, Crunchbase data shows. Their count has climbed every quarter of 2026 while totals fell, and AI took about nine-tenths of the gain on last year.
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Databricks says it added UNREGISTER to the Apache Iceberg REST catalog spec, so a table can change catalogs with zero files copied. A team can only use it if the catalog it is leaving implements the call, and the post demonstrates it on Unity Catalog.
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Cloudflare made its Data Platform generally available as Basin, three serverless services that ingest, catalog and query Apache Iceberg tables on R2. Outside Iceberg engines read the same tables, so Workers teams can price Basin SQL against a warehouse on identical data.
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Microsoft and Google are joining Apache Ossie, an open format for moving semantic models between platforms that more than 60 companies already back. Its shared hub cuts converter work, though analysts say lock-in eases only as far as the format can carry each vendor's logic.
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Apache Iceberg's REST Catalog spec now lets a catalog return per-user row filters and nine column actions for a trusted engine to enforce, Databricks says. Policies that need subqueries or lookup tables do not fit that vocabulary, so the portability covers simple rules running on engines a deployment already trusts.
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