Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government ...

Nearly 80 percent of organizations now use AI in at least one core business process, according to McKinsey, yet widespread adoption has surfaced a persistent problem: a deep shortage of professionals ...

Matei Zaharia, co-founder and CTO of Databricks, has been named the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing, recognizing his contributions to large-scale ...

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...

With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics ...

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...

Enterprise clients can now leverage Growth Protocol's reasoning engine directly within Databricks via an SDK, without moving any data. Growth Protocol is an enterprise reasoning platform that uses ...