First-party releases and research from Databricks. Headlines and excerpts link to the original articles.
Databricks announced branch-based restores for Lakebase Postgres, aiming to make recovery faster in managed OLTP environments where restores have historically been slow and worsen at scale.
Databricks published a piece on connecting customer context to measurable ROI with agentic marketing, noting marketing leaders face greater complexity than ever. No further details were included.
Databricks announced that IP Functions are generally available, bringing high-performance network analytics to the Lakehouse. The company describes IP data as warehousing data, referencing firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, CDN edges and DNS resolvers.
Databricks launched ai_decide, a new AI Function that it says makes fast decisions on governed data. The company announced the launch in a blog post but provided no further technical details.
Databricks published a practical guide to cost optimization with Lakebase Postgres, describing Lakebase as a fully managed Postgres database built for operational realities.
Databricks published an article titled "How to scale agentic applications without creating AI sprawl," which notes that building an agent is getting easier as more capable models and coding agents emerge.
Databricks published a 2026 guide on storing Unity Catalog managed tables, stating that these tables let users control the placement of their data.
Databricks says providing employees access to frontier AI capabilities is a top priority and describes rolling out frontier models to its 12,000 employees on Day 1.
Databricks introduced Lakebase Search, which it describes as state-of-the-art full text and vector search for Postgres. The company says traditional OLTP systems were not built for the search demands of AI agents.
Databricks published a piece on connecting data and AI across the manufacturing product value chain, noting that a manufacturing defect rarely belongs to one system and that a scrap spike may relate to other factors.
Databricks published a step-by-step enterprise playbook for rolling out Genie One, framed around a regional sales director asking why the Northeast pipeline looks soft this quarter.