A Databricks exec has 3 tips for new grads — and showing up to work IRL is one of them

Andy Kofoid, president of global field operations at Databricks, advises against blindly following the common advice to ...

Databricks in talks to raise funds at over $165 billion, The Information reports

Data analytics software firm Databricks has discussed raising funds in ​a round that could begin next month and value it ‌at between $165 billion and $175 billion, The Information reported on Monday, ...
The Information

Billionaire Databricks and Perplexity Co-Founder Pitches AI Researchers to Not Work for Big Tech

The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused on plugging the years-long drain of talent from academia to Big Tech. He wants to encourage academics ...
Ventureburn

12 Best AI for Coding Tools in 2026 (Vibecoding & Data Science)

Discover the top 12 tools in 2026, from Cursor to Copilot, to speed up daily dev workflows and build apps faster!
The Next Web

Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up

Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with strategic investments from Databricks ...
Los Angeles Times

The nation’s students are deep in a reading recession. Here’s how L.A. and California fit in

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The nation’s students face a deepening reading crisis, with most states showing minimal progress in recent years, ...
GitHub

informatica-to-databricks-migration-plan.md

Databricks Lakebridge is a free, open-source toolkit developed by Databricks Labs designed to automate and accelerate migrations from legacy data warehouses and ETL platforms to Databricks SQL and the ...
Education Week

How the Science of Reading Is Reshaping Teaching: What the Data Say

The “science of reading” movement has brought sweeping changes to the curriculum teachers use in the classroom and the professional development they take—but educators still voice substantial ...
Business Wire

Adastra is a Databricks Gold Tier Partner

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adastra, a global leader in AI and data-driven transformation, today announced it has achieved Gold Tier Partner status in the Databricks Partner Program. For Adastra’s ...
VentureBeat

Databricks tested a stronger model against its multi-step agent on hybrid queries. The stronger model still lost by 21%.

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...
Wired

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...
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 ...