Databricks' serverless database slashes app development from months to days as companies prep for agentic AI

The Lakebase service has been in development since June 2025 and is based on technology Databricks gained via its acquisition ...

Snowflake And OpenAI Strike $200 Million Deal To Power Enterprise AI Agents

The deal positions Snowflake to compete with Databricks in AI while giving OpenAI enterprise distribution beyond Microsoft’s ecosystem.
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

Google has launched SQL-native managed inference for 180,000+ Hugging Face models in BigQuery. The preview release collapses the ML lifecycle into a unified SQL interface, eliminating the need for ...
GitHub

Data Engineering 2 - Modern Data Platforms: dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark

Take a look at the AIRBNB database/schemas/tables (you can use the Snowflake UI for this). Select 10 records from listings - review and understand the data. Select 10 records from hosts - review and ...