Enterprise AI agents keep operating from different versions of reality — Microsoft says Fabric IQ is the fix

Microsoft has made Fabric IQ's business ontology accessible via MCP to any AI agent from any vendor, targeting the core reason multi-agent systems fail in production: agents operating from conflicting ...
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Databricks, Accenture Launch Joint Business Venture Focused On Spurring AI Development

The new Accenture Databricks Business Group, tasked with expanding customer use of the Databricks platform for a broad range of AI tasks, is the latest expansion of the strategic alliance between the ...

Databricks launches data engineering copilot and acquires agent evaluation startup Quotient AI

Databricks Inc. today introduced Genie Code, an artificial intelligence agent designed to automate complex data engineering and analytics tasks. The move extends the rapid evolution of agents from ...

Opsera Unveils AppSec AI Agents to Power the Shift from traditional SDLC to AI-SDLC

SAN FRANCISCO – Opsera, the leader in Agentic DevOps, today announced the launch of Opsera AI Agents for DevSecOps, a suite of intelligent, purpose-built agents designed to help enterprises transition ...
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New Databricks KARL RAG Agent Promises 33% Cost Reduction vs. Claude Opus 4.6

Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower ...
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Enterprises pour billions into data lakehouses. So why can't the business use the damn things?

Alteryx is pushing analytics into the data lakehouse rather than pulling data out. Chief Product Officer Ben Canning explains why governance and business user access remain the real barriers to ...
Inc

Microsoft Just Found a Way to Store Data for Millennia by Using a Common Kitchen Item

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...
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Texas regulators will ask data centers to begin reporting their water usage

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...
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Databricks closes $7B+ financing round at $134B valuation

Databricks Inc. today announced that it has raised more than $7 billion in equity and debt financing to accelerate its growth efforts. The company first disclosed the investment late last year when it ...
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Federal judge blocks ICE from using IRS taxpayer data in enforcement

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via ...
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We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...