Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...
InfoWorld

Databricks pitches Lakewatch as a cheaper SIEM — but is it really?

Databricks has previewed a new open agentic Security Information and Event Management software (SIEM) named Lakewatch that signals its first deliberate step beyond data warehousing into security ...
TechCrunch

Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product

With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics ...
Fast Company

Inside Databricks’s $5.4 billion plan to power the agent era

As the AI industry races toward bigger models—and louder claims—Databricks is quietly building the infrastructure to make these models actually work for business. Databricks’s data management and ...
Hacker

I Built a RAG System for Our Analytics Team. It Worked Great Until We Added Real Data.

Data/Business Intelligence Engineer focused on building governed, trustworthy AI for data platforms and NL analytics.
winbuzzer.com

New Databricks KARL RAG Agent Promises 33% Cost Reduction vs. Claude Opus 4.6

Many enterprise RAG pipelines handle one type of search well and fail silently on the rest. Databricks on March 4 released a new agent called KARL, or Knowledge Agents via Reinforcement Learning, that ...
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 ...
Forbes

10 Exploding AI Skills That Pay $100,000+ In 2026 (Learn For Free)

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
marktechpost

How to Build an Atomic-Agents RAG Pipeline with Typed Schemas, Dynamic Context Injection, and Agent Chaining

In this tutorial, we build an advanced, end-to-end learning pipeline around Atomic-Agents by wiring together typed agent interfaces, structured prompting, and a compact retrieval layer that grounds ...
SiliconANGLE

Databricks closes $7B+ financing round at $134B valuation

Databricks Inc. today announced that it has raised more than $7 billion in equity and debt financing to accelerate its growth efforts. The company first disclosed the investment late last year when it ...
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 ...