Snopes.com

ICE temporarily detained educator Christina Rank in Minnesota. Here's what we know

On Jan. 12, 2026, according to social media posts and reporting by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained special education classroom assistant ...
Wall Street Journal

Databricks Is Raising Funds at $134 Billion Valuation

Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding that would value the data-analytics and artificial-intelligence software company at $134 billion, an increase of 34% from its last funding ...
VentureBeat

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology ...
InfoWorld

Databricks fires back at Snowflake with SQL-based AI document parsing

Databricks and Snowflake are at it again, and the battleground is now SQL-based document parsing. In an intensifying race to dominate enterprise AI workloads with agent-driven automation, Databricks ...
USA Today

Texas A&M, BYU rise in college football's NCAA Re-Rank 1-136 after Week 9

The USA TODAY Sports NCAA Re-Rank 1-136 rounds the corner toward November with three newcomers in the top 10, a shakeup in the Big 12 and big drops from several would-be College Football Playoff ...
Sports Illustrated

Top Rank Fights To Air On New Channel Following ESPN Departure

Top Rank Boxing's post-ESPN era will officially begin with Mikaela Mayer and Mary Spencer. Mayer, 35, and Spencer, 40, headline a five-fight card on Oct. 30. The event will be the company's third ...
Forbes

Databricks: A Much-Anticipated IPO, But Will The Honeymoon Last?

Databricks recently reached a valuation exceeding $100 billion following its latest funding round, joining the elite group of most-valuable private companies like SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI.
CNBC

Databricks commits to $100 million in OpenAI spending as high-valued startups team up in AI

CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Disruptor 50 list. Submit a nomination before February 23. Databricks, which offers companies tools for building agents on top of their data, plans to ...
Reuters

Exclusive: Databricks to buy Sequoia-backed Tecton in AI agent push

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Databricks will acquire machine learning startup Tecton to expand its AI agent offerings, the latest in a string of deals aimed at offering full-scale AI building tools for ...
USA Today

Penn State, Georgia lead preseason college football NCAA Re-Rank 1-136

Penn State tops the USA TODAY Sports College Football Re-Rank, followed by Georgia and Clemson. The SEC and Big Ten dominate the top 30, with 10 and 8 teams each. There are multiple matchups in Week 1 ...
VentureBeat

Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...