Databricks — Volume 341, Issue 3

Databricks

Volume 341, Issue 3 · 15 articles from 5 issues

In This Issue


Convert Proprietary Code to Open ANSI SQL With Genie Code (Databricks, Thursday, July 30th, 2026)

Databricks introduces Genie Code to translate proprietary warehouse dialects into open ANSI SQL during migration. Read more

Provisioning for the Agentic Era: How Databricks Built a Self-Serve Infrastructure Vending Machine (Databricks, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026)

Databricks describes building a self-serve infrastructure 'vending machine' for the agentic era. Read more

Why a Frontier Data Agent Outperforms General Coding Agents in Quality and Cost (Databricks, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026)

Databricks argues a purpose-built data agent beats general coding agents on quality and cost. Read more

Agents for Production Lines: Trusted Decisions in Real Time (Databricks, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026)

Databricks shows how manufacturing agents make trusted real-time decisions when a production line fails mid-shift. Read more

The Future of Data Analytics: Why AI Is Rewriting the Analyst's Job Description (Databricks, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026)

Databricks argues AI automating SQL and dashboards shifts analysts toward judgment rather than query writing. Read more

Evaluating AI Agents Live at the Grounded Reasoning Cup (Databricks, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026)

Eleven academic teams tested agents live on OfficeQA Pro V2, built from about 120,000 pages of US Treasury documents. Read more

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (Databricks, Friday, August 7th, 2026)

Databricks shares how it manages AI coding costs at scale after measurable gains from agentic coding. Read more

What Are AI Hallucinations? (Databricks, Thursday, August 13th, 2026)

Databricks explains what AI hallucinations are, why they occur and how organisations can reduce them. Read more

The Prototyping Tax Is Killing Your AI Roadmap (Databricks, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Databricks argues fragmented context and API boundaries stall AI projects, and platform-native agents remove that overhead. Read more

What is Tool Calling? (Databricks, Thursday, August 6th, 2026)

Databricks publishes an explainer on tool calling and how models interact with external systems. Read more

What is an AI Assistant? (Databricks, Friday, August 7th, 2026)

Databricks publishes an explainer defining AI assistants and the components behind them. Read more

When It Comes to Governance, Retailers Need a Control Plane for Context (Databricks, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026)

Databricks argues retail AI's next bottleneck is trusted context, given how sensitive the customer data behind it is. Read more

How Databricks Feature Store Serves Features With Sub-Second Freshness (Databricks, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Databricks Feature Store now reaches 200ms p99 latency for streaming features using Spark Real-Time Mode. Read more

Designing Effective Genie Agents From a Single Prompt (Databricks, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026)

Databricks explains how Genie Agents build domain-specific agents from one prompt by grounding them in governed context. Read more

Databricks Document Intelligence: Pushing the Frontier for Complex Document Extraction (Databricks, Tuesday, August 18th, 2026)

Databricks adds Precision Mode to its ai_extract API, pairing fine-tuned models with an agentic harness for hard documents. Read more


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