Enterprise AI agents keep operating from different versions of reality — Microsoft says Fabric IQ is the fix

Microsoft has made Fabric IQ's business ontology accessible via MCP to any AI agent from any vendor, targeting the core ...
VentureBeat

Databricks built a RAG agent it says can handle every kind of enterprise search

Most enterprise RAG pipelines are optimized for one search behavior. They fail silently on the others. A model trained to synthesize cross-document reports handles constraint-driven entity search ...
InfoQ

Databricks Introduces Lakebase, a PostgreSQL Database for AI Workloads

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PurpleLab Expands Access to Real-World Healthcare Data via Databricks and Snowflake

WAYNE, PA, UNITED STATES, February 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — PurpleLab ®, the healthtech company empowering teams to leverage insights that improve health ...
FedScoop

Federal judge blocks ICE from using IRS taxpayer data in enforcement

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via ...
TechRepublic

What Are the Pros and Cons of Data Centers?

What Are the Pros and Cons of Data Centers? Your email has been sent The AI data center boom is reshaping economies while straining power grids, water supplies, and communities. Here’s the real cost ...
InfoWorld

Databricks adds MemAlign to MLflow to cut cost and latency of LLM evaluation

Databricks’ Mosaic AI Research team has added a new framework, MemAlign, to MLflow, its managed machine learning and generative AI lifecycle development service. MemAlign is designed to help ...
Morningstar

Agerpoint Partners with Databricks to Scale Enterprise Data Intelligence for Agriculture and Nature Systems

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Agerpoint, a leader in spatial intelligence and AI for agriculture, forestry, and natural asset management, today announced a partnership ...
The New York Times

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.
CNBC

Databricks obtains $1.8 billion in additional debt ahead of IPO

Databricks now has access to over $7 billion in debt, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Investors valued the data analytics software maker at $134 billion in a funding round announced in ...
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Sumo Logic targets data pipeline blind spots with new Snowflake and Databricks tools

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. today announced two new Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. apps that give customers more robust visibility into their data pipeline and provide stronger ...
Diginomica

What if your security problem is really your data problem? Here's why Databricks is shifting the blame as it enters cybersecurity

Cybersecurity principles are simple, says Databricks' Field CISO. The hard part is doing them at scale across thousands of users and hundreds of applications. The company thinks its data platform – ...