Databricks

Volume 343, Issue 4 · 12 articles from 2 issues

In This Issue

• Building Live Intelligence: Databricks AI Search Supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed Tables Using Iceberg
• MemCurrent: Designing Persistent Memory for Production Agents
• The New Economics of AI Cost Management
• Databricks AI Runtime and NVIDIA Make It Easier to Customize Open Models With Enterprise Data
• Smarter Cost Controls for Serverless
• BigQuery to Databricks: A Strategic Framework
• Introducing Agent Memory on Databricks
• Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Databricks
• Vital Skills: Upskilling Genie Code With Healthcare and Life Sciences Skills
• Deliberate Decisions and Enterprise AI Value
• The Fraud Analyst AI Coworker: Detecting Telecom Fraud in Real-Time on One Platform
• Voice Agents Are Here. Context Turns Them into Real Customer Value

Building Live Intelligence: Databricks AI Search Supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed Tables Using Iceberg (Databricks, Monday, October 26th, 2026)

Databricks AI Search now natively indexes Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and Managed Iceberg tables alongside Delta. Read more

MemCurrent: Designing Persistent Memory for Production Agents (Databricks, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026)

Databricks Research introduces MemCurrent, a persistent memory architecture to improve agent quality and efficiency. Read more

The New Economics of AI Cost Management (Databricks, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026)

Databricks explains how to measure, attribute and control AI spend across models, agents and teams. Read more

Databricks AI Runtime and NVIDIA Make It Easier to Customize Open Models With Enterprise Data (Databricks, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026)

Databricks AI Runtime brings NVIDIA software and serverless GPUs to enterprise data for fine-tuning and training open models. Read more

Smarter Cost Controls for Serverless (Databricks, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

Databricks adds serverless cost controls including rate limits now, with shared budgets coming, alongside tagging, access controls and budget alerts. Read more

BigQuery to Databricks: A Strategic Framework (Databricks, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026)

Databricks outlines a phased framework for migrating from Google BigQuery to the Databricks Lakehouse. Read more

Introducing Agent Memory on Databricks (Databricks, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026)

Databricks launches agent memory in beta on Agent Bricks, built on its MemCurrent research and running on Lakebase. Read more

Announcing General Availability of Real-Time Mode for Spark Declarative Pipelines on Databricks (Databricks, Thursday, October 29th, 2026)

Databricks announces general availability of Real-Time Mode for Spark Declarative Pipelines, with millisecond end-to-end streaming latency. Read more

Vital Skills: Upskilling Genie Code With Healthcare and Life Sciences Skills (Databricks, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026)

Databricks releases Vital Skills, open-source Agent Skills that give Genie Code healthcare and life sciences expertise. Read more

Deliberate Decisions and Enterprise AI Value (Databricks, Friday, October 30th, 2026)

Databricks summarizes a DataIQ report on five leadership disciplines for turning enterprise AI ambition into sustained value. Read more

The Fraud Analyst AI Coworker: Detecting Telecom Fraud in Real-Time on One Platform (Databricks, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026)

Databricks shows how an AI coworker on one platform can help telecoms detect account takeover and SIM swap fraud in real time. Read more

Voice Agents Are Here. Context Turns Them into Real Customer Value (Databricks, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026)

Databricks argues voice agents deliver value only with customer context, and describes its DIVA blueprint for grounding them in governed data. Read more

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