#Unity Catalog
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Southern Company SCOUT Closes Storm Loop
Southern Company SCOUT adds live storm operations on Databricks to SPEAR and RAMP, serving 1,139 users with minute-level outage intelligence.

Genie Agent Mode API Adds File Reasoning
Databricks GA'd Agent mode and opened its API, letting agents join tables with PDFs in Unity Catalog volumes. Power is real, so is the permission risk.

Databricks Big Book of AgentOps Drops
Databricks released its Big Book of AgentOps on Sept 2, a blueprint for governing, observing and scaling AI agents in production.

Databricks for Government FDA Powers Secure AI
FDA's HALO on Databricks GovCloud scaled to 6,000 users, cut provisioning time 75% and now powers regulatory AI with Unity Catalog governance.

Databricks Genie Ontology Needs Clean Data First
Databricks says Genie Ontology needs six layers of data work to deliver accurate answers, starting with clean facts and golden records.

Discovery Bank hyper-personalized banking at scale
Discovery Bank's hyper-personalized banking runs on reusable behavioral AI and governed data, delivering 40% engagement uplift with agents inside controls.

Databricks Unity Catalog governance at Indra
Indra cut EV data costs 80-90% and latency from 24.4s to 3.5s by consolidating Cosmos DB and Synapse onto Databricks with Unity Catalog governance.

Databricks Extends AI Reach with Industry Solutions
Databricks partners are deploying industry-specific AI solutions built on Lakebase, enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making.

Databricks Simplifies SQL ETL in Lakehouse
Databricks enhances its Lakehouse platform with declarative patterns for SQL ETL, simplifying append, CDC, and batch updates for data analysts.

Databricks IDE Integration Boosts Dev Productivity
Databricks enhances developer productivity by enabling local IDE integration for running and debugging workloads directly on its platform.

Databricks SQL Migration Myths Busted
Databricks SQL scripting now allows direct 'lift-and-shift' migration of complex legacy stored procedures, slashing timelines and empowering SQL teams.

Databricks simplifies AI agents
Databricks simplifies AI agent creation, enabling users to build domain-specific tools from a single prompt by grounding them in trusted business context.

The Prototyping Tax
The 'prototyping tax' of fragmented context and siloed data kills AI initiatives. Platform-native agents and semantic grounding offer a solution, as shown by Abacus Insights' success in healthcare.

Databricks AI Functions Arrive
Databricks integrates AI models into SQL queries with new AI Functions, simplifying data analysis and reducing complexity for users.

Scottish Water Tames Data With AI Chat
Scottish Water enhances data access for its capital investment program by integrating Databricks Genie into Microsoft Teams, enabling conversational AI queries.

Risk Chiefs Need Real-Time Data
Legacy data systems create critical blind spots for risk leaders. Databricks argues a unified, real-time data platform is key for modern CROs.

Databricks: The Data-Native AI Assistant
Databricks unveils its AI Assistant, emphasizing deep data integration and governance for enterprise use.

Databricks Unifies Unstructured Data for AI
Databricks introduces FILE type for native handling of unstructured data like images and video in its Lakehouse, enhancing AI development and governance.

Databricks Unity AI Gateway Hits GA
Databricks' Unity AI Gateway is now generally available, offering unified governance for AI costs, security, and model choice.

Databricks Adds dbt Query Tagging
Databricks introduces Query Tags for dbt, enabling granular usage attribution and cost tracking directly within SQL.

Databricks Revamps Retail Reports with GenAI
Databricks proposes a generative AI-powered 'Monday Morning Report' to transform retail and CPG planning from data arguments to decisive action.

Databricks Connects Dev Ops and FinOps
Databricks Lakebase unifies operational and financial data, offering real-time cost visibility for developers and FinOps teams.

Databricks launches internal data marketplace
Databricks unveils Discover and Domains in public preview, an internal marketplace and context layer designed to improve data discovery and AI agent reliability.

Databricks Builds AI Soccer Coach
Databricks' new 'La Pizarra' app turns massive soccer match data into real-time tactical insights, leveraging AI for scouting and opponent analysis.

Databricks Unifies Lakehouse with Managed Tables
Databricks enhances its Unity Catalog managed tables, enabling external engines for read/write access and boosting performance via Predictive Optimization.

Databricks Streamlines ML Feature Management
Databricks unveils Feature Views, a managed framework simplifying ML feature definition, serving, and governance for training and real-time inference.

Databricks Auto Upgrades debut
Databricks Auto Upgrades automates the deployment of new lakehouse table features, enhancing performance and reliability without manual intervention.

Databricks Vibe Auto-Generates Data Models
Databricks unveils Vibe Data Modeling, an LLM agent that auto-generates Silver-layer data models from plain English in hours, not months.
Databricks Marketplace Apps Launch
Databricks Marketplace now allows users to discover, deploy, and run third-party data and AI applications directly within their secure workspaces.
Databricks Unveils AI Gateway
Databricks enhances Unity Catalog with AI Gateway, expanding governance for AI agents, models, and tools across clouds.
Databricks Bolsters AI Governance
Databricks expands Unity AI Gateway at Data + AI Summit 2026, offering enhanced cost controls, unified governance for AI assets, and robust monitoring capabilities.
Databricks Data Federation Arrives
Databricks Lakehouse Federation lets users query data wherever it lives, unifying access and governance across disparate sources without migration.
Mercedes-Benz Korea's AI Agents
Mercedes-Benz Korea leverages Databricks to build AI agents with a unified semantic layer, ensuring trusted data insights for BI and AI applications.
Databricks Genie Tames Wild Maintenance Reports
Databricks Genie AI agents are transforming solar and wind maintenance by turning unstructured PDF reports into a queryable data layer for advanced analytics.
Databricks Touts Unity Catalog for Iceberg
Databricks enhances Unity Catalog for Apache Iceberg, offering GA for Managed, v3, and Foreign Iceberg with focus on interoperability, governance, and AI-driven optimization.
Databricks Adds OpenTelemetry Tracing
Databricks integrates OpenTelemetry tracing directly into Unity Catalog, offering governed, cost-effective observability for AI agents and simplifying telemetry pipelines.
Databricks Tames AI Agents
Databricks enhances Unity Catalog to govern AI agents, focusing on access control, data lineage, cost intelligence, and interoperability.
Databricks curbs AI agent dangers
Databricks Unity Catalog introduces granular control and logging for AI agents, preventing unauthorized actions and providing a complete audit trail.
Databricks Bolsters AI Agent Governance
Databricks enhances Unity AI Gateway with guardrails, cost controls, and service policies to manage AI agents at scale.

Databricks Unifies Data Governance
Databricks integrates operational databases into Unity Catalog, simplifying governance, auditing, and cost attribution for all data workloads.

Databricks Unity Catalog Automates Data Security
Databricks Unity Catalog achieves general availability for ABAC policies, governed tags, and data classification, automating sensitive data protection.

Databricks Unifies Lakehouse with Catalog Commits
Databricks launches Catalog Commits, enhancing its lakehouse with unified governance, improved interoperability, and multi-table transaction support.
SAP Data Gets Smarter in Databricks
Databricks integrates SAP semantic metadata, transforming cryptic SAP data into an AI-ready, context-rich asset within Unity Catalog.
Databricks, BigQuery Unite Data Catalogs
Databricks and Google Cloud enable bidirectional catalog federation, allowing BigQuery and Unity Catalog users to access shared data without duplication.
Databricks rolls out no-code data prep
Databricks unveils Lakeflow Designer, a no-code, AI-native tool for visual data preparation, aiming to empower business users and streamline data workflows on its platform.
Databricks Activates Documents with AI Agents
Databricks introduces a multi-agent workflow using AI/BI Genie and Agent Bricks to automate document data extraction and activation.
Databricks Excel Add-in Simplifies Data Access
Databricks launches an Excel Add-in, allowing business users governed access to lakehouse data without SQL, simplifying analysis and ensuring data consistency.
dbt on Databricks: Open Platform Advantage
Databricks is enhancing dbt workflows with its unified lakehouse, offering open foundations, integrated governance, and optimized performance to accelerate data transformation.
Databricks AI Gateway Tames Tool Access
Databricks AI Gateway streamlines agent connections to external tools like GitHub and Atlassian, simplifying authentication and enhancing governance.
Zalando Unifies Data with Databricks
Zalando leverages Databricks Unity Catalog and Metric Views to create a unified data foundation, enabling consistent metrics and AI-powered natural language analytics.