Databricks — Volume 341, Issue 4

Databricks

Volume 341, Issue 4 · 15 articles from 3 issues

In This Issue

Modern Risk Demands a Real-Time Foundation: The CRO's Mandate (Databricks, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026)

Databricks argues chief risk officers need a real-time unified data foundation to manage systemic risk. Read more

Using AI_Functions in Your Data Warehouse: Top Use Cases (Databricks, Friday, August 14th, 2026)

Databricks outlines six AI use cases that run in pure SQL inside the data warehouse. Read more

Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway: Match Frontier Quality With 30%+ Lower Cost Per Task (Databricks, Thursday, August 13th, 2026)

Databricks' Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway matches frontier quality at over 30% lower cost per coding task. Read more

Inbound Private Link Now Supports Account-Level Genie One, the Account Console, and Custom URLs (Databricks, Thursday, August 20th, 2026)

Databricks extends Inbound Private Link to account-level Genie One, the account console and custom URLs. Read more

Busting SQL Migration Myths: How New SQL Features Make Lift-and-Shift to Lakehouse Easier (Databricks, Thursday, August 20th, 2026)

Databricks says cursors, temp tables and multi-statement transactions now migrate to the lakehouse translated, not rewritten. Read more

Connecting Retail Demand Planning to Campaign and Store Execution (Databricks, Friday, August 21st, 2026)

Databricks shows a unified retail workflow linking demand planning, audience building, campaigns and store operations. Read more

Taking AUTO CDC to the Next Level: Solving the Hardest Real-World Use Cases (Databricks, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026)

Databricks extends AUTO CDC with bitemporal support and partial updates, contributing to Apache Spark 4.2. Read more

Building for the AI Era: Lakebase, Streaming and Lakehouse Innovations at VLDB 2026 (Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026)

Databricks previews its VLDB 2026 contributions on Lakebase, Structured Streaming and lakehouse optimizations. Read more

Introducing Governance Hub: Intelligent, Account-Level Governance Over Your Databricks Estate (Databricks, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026)

Governance Hub gives Databricks administrators one account-level view of data health, AI usage and cost with actionable recommendations. Read more

Object Storage + WAL: Lakebase Postgres for the Agentic Era (Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026)

Lakebase Postgres treats the write-ahead log on object storage as source of truth, enabling instant branching and time travel. Read more

What QSR Reports Miss About the Decisions That Matter Most (Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026)

Databricks and Lovelytics connect QSR performance signals so leaders can trace a missed promotion to its actual cause. Read more

Beyond Answers: New Genie One Features to Turn Insights into Action (Databricks, Friday, August 28th, 2026)

Databricks adds a Genie One desktop app, document collaboration and expanded enterprise context to move from answers to action. Read more

Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries With Lakebase and Agentic AI (Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026)

Databricks surveys production Lakebase solutions built by consulting and SI partners across regulated and operational industries. Read more

Enhancing Agent Retrieval With Structured Chart Extraction (Databricks, Thursday, August 27th, 2026)

Databricks tests making charts machine-readable so agents can answer questions requiring values read from figures. Read more

Fast, Fault-Tolerant PyTorch Training on AI Runtime (Databricks, Friday, August 28th, 2026)

Databricks explains how smart dataloading and asynchronous checkpointing protect training goodput when GPU failures are routine. Read more

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