Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

v4c.ai Surpasses 500 Databricks Certifications, Building a Global Databricks Engineering Powerhouse

Databricks services partner, today announced it has surpassed 500 Databricks certifications in under one year. This marks a ...
The Next Web

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...
insideHPC

New Guide Offers Databricks Unified Analytics Platform Machine Learning Use Cases

The fields of machine learning and deep learning are on the brink of unprecedented breakthroughs across a variety of verticals. And according to a new report from Databricks, “data is the new fuel,” ...
SiliconANGLE

Databricks partners with Anthropic and touts breakthrough in reinforcement learning

Databricks Inc. and Anthropic PBC said today that they have entered a five-year partnership to make Anthropic’s Claude large language models and services available on the Databricks Data Intelligence ...
Yahoo Finance

WTW Radar integrates with Databricks to simplify and fast-track data sharing

NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) today announced the launch of the Radar Connector for Databricks, a significant addition to WTW’s market-leading end-to-end insurance ...
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Quotient Buy Brings Lifelong Learning to Databricks AI

Data integration and management giant Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, bringing continuous evaluation and reinforcement learning to its Genie and Agent Bricks AI tools - as well as Genie Code, a ...