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"Agent Bricks gave us the building blocks to rapidly build Elliptic's copilot, which explains wallet risk in natural language for fast, accurate decisions, with governance built in from day one." - Amar Chandarana, Senior Product Manager, Elli...
Databricks Academy offers the free Data Preparation for Machine Learning course to help associate-level data scientists and ML practitioners prepare data for traditional machine learning on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As the first cour...
Databricks is introducing the next generation of Genie a unified, AI-powered home for business users that brings together governed data, dashboards, apps, and chat across workspaces, devices, and enterprise knowledge sources.
Key highlights
One Genie...
The Weekly Digest • April 20 – 26
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Databricks now offers Snapchat Conversions API (CAPI) as a listing on Databricks Marketplace, so marketing and data teams can send governed, first‑party conversion events from the Lakehouse directly to Snapchat without CDPs, reverse ETL, or custom co...
Many manufacturers want a safer, faster way to understand how their production lines behave without risking real equipment or downtime. Digital twins make this possible by creating a virtual version of your assets and processes, powered by real senso...
"We had outgrown our legacy systems, but with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform—especially Lakebase and Databricks Apps—we've built a revenue management app that's faster, simpler, and far more reliable."- Dennis Michon, Head of Data Product,...
Databricks now supports OpenAI GPT‑5.5 and Codex natively, so teams can use OpenAI’s latest frontier model for coding, agents, and document intelligence fully governed by Unity AI Gateway across AWS, Azure, and GCP
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GPT‑5.5 on Databrick...
The Weekly Digest • April 13 – 19
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Databricks has launched the Public Preview of Lakeflow Designer, a visual, no‑code, AI‑native way for analysts and business users to prepare and analyze data directly on Databricks without leaving the governed environment of Unity Catalog.
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Databricks Academy offers the free DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering course, designed to help data engineers apply software engineering best practices and DevOps principles on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Instead of going deep into...
"Zerobus Ingest allows us to detect overheating factory conditions in minutes rather than hours, directly supporting our carbon-neutrality strategy and operational efficiency." – Kento Izumi, General Manager, Digital Transformation Promotion Division...
We’re introducing Agent mode in Genie Spaces, a new way to let Genie investigate your data more like a real analyst. Instead of just answering a single query, Genie now plans, tests ideas, and reasons across multiple queries to help explain what’s ha...
Customers today expect brands to recognize what they care about, whether they’re reacting to a campaign or actively browsing online. With Databricks Solution Accelerators for propensity scoring on sales data and real‑time clickstream propensity in ec...
We’re announcing Document Intelligence, designed to tackle the biggest weak spot in today’s agents: reading real enterprise documents. It turns messy PDFs like contracts, claims, invoices, financial filings, and clinical notes into reliable structure...