OpenAI is offering $0 licenses and 50% off usage to US governments with expanded cyber defense. Databricks is unifying governance across engines and catalogs while Uber Eats halved search latency with a full stack rebuild.
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
GSA deal gives eligible federal, state, local and tribal governments $0 license fees and 50% off usage.
Cyber defense support is bundled. That is the part that determines whether agencies can actually deploy.
Unifying governance across engines and catalogs in the Open Lakehouse
Databricks is pushing governance that travels with the data across engines and catalogs, not just inside its own. Open table formats and open APIs are the lever, Unity Catalog is the control plane.
Halving the Time: How Uber Eats Rebuilt Its Search Pipeline
Uber Eats cut search latency in half with a full stack pipeline rebuild.
Every millisecond counts when the user is hungry and deciding. The team re-architected retrieval and ranking to remove bottlenecks.
Result is faster results without trading relevance. That is hard to do at Uber scale.
