# OpenAI for Government, Databricks Lakehouse, Uber Eats Search
_OpenAI cuts government costs, Databricks unifies lakehouse governance, Uber Eats halves search latency with a rebuilt pipeline._
**Published:** 2026-09-11
**Source:** https://www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/artificial-intelligence/2026/briefing-openai-databricks-uber-2026-09-11-992c
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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.

[Source: OpenAI News](https://openai.com/index/expanding-ai-access-us-government)

## 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.

[Source: Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/blog/unifying-governance-across-engines-and-catalogs-open-lakehouse)

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.

[Source: Uber Engineering](https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/uber-eats-search-pipeline/)
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