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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 ...

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 ...
InfoWorld

Databricks buys Tecton to give context to AI agents

The acquisition will enable enterprises to build agents that can leverage real-time data to make better decisions while acting autonomously, the company said. To perform tasks as well as a human, AI ...
TMCnet

Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Built on a new architecture KumoRFM-2 achieves state-of-the-art results across 41 predictive tasks and four major benchmarks, ...
Diginomica

How Virgin Atlantic is hitting new heights in generative AI with Databricks technology

Airline Virgin Atlantic is using the Databricks data platform to create a better and repeatable way of working across business functions. Virgin Atlantic is implementing Databricks technology as part ...

Nucleus Research Releases 2026 DSML Technology Value Matrix

In 2026, the data science and machine learning (DSML) platform market is delivering measurable ROI through the rise of agentic AI and the shift toward autonomous analytics execution. Platforms are no ...