The modern data stack was built for humans asking questions. Google just rebuilt its for agents taking action.

Google's Agentic Data Cloud rewires BigQuery, its data catalog and pipeline tooling around autonomous AI agents — not the human-scale queries enterprise data stacks were built for.

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

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

Google Cloud introduces AI agent platform and new TPU chips at Next 2026

Google Cloud introduced a new AI agent platform, updated data architecture, and eighth-generation TPUs at Next 2026.

Google delivers connective tissue for autonomous AI agents to access data without restrictions

Google Cloud is turning the traditional enterprise data platform on its head, unveiling the Agentic Data Cloud infrastructure ...

OpenAI Says Codex Agents Are Autonomously Running Its Data Platform

Inside OpenAI’s ‘self-operating’ infrastructure, where Codex-powered AI agents debug failures, manage releases, and compress ...

Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

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

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

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

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already'

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and ...
Le Lézard

Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Kumo, a leader in predictive AI, today announced its launch of KumoRFM-2, the first foundation model to outperform fully supervised machine learning on enterprise relational data. Built by the team ...