Databricks is pitching a fix for what it sees as the growing operations mess in enterprise AI. With the launch of Genie ZeroOps, unveiled at its Data + AI Summit, the company is targeting a problem many data teams know too well: it’s no longer building pipelines and models that hurts, it’s keeping them running.

Databricks enhances its AI platform with the AI agent Genie One, which is intended to make company data usable thanks to the new context layer Ontology.

The data-analytics company is pushing further into AI applications for general work as it aims to carve out a place in the artificial-intelligence world.

BlueVerse for Databricks is designed to help enterprises drive tangible business outcomes from data and AI investments by addressing critical challenges in the secure and efficien

Databricks is seeing higher growth as AI agents assist with data analysis, but all that activity is significantly increasing costs.

Genie Ontology aims to unify business definitions across systems, but analysts say data quality and governance will make or break adoption.

Databricks’ acquisition of Panther supports its security lakehouse strategy as an alternative to traditional SIEM systems.

Intel appointed Seok-Hee Lee EVP of Intel Foundry, cementing its intention to be a bigger contract manufacturer. Software delivery provider CloudBees named former Immuta Chief Product Officer Moritz Plassnig CEO, succeeding Anuj Kapur.

Databricks is launching new tools to help companies cap AI costs, after finding customers had accidentally spent tens of millions of dollars on their broader AI bills in a single month. Why it matters: AI agents are making corporate software bills harder to predict,

Databricks is buying Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity deal, to build a 'security lakehouse' and take on Splunk and CrowdStrike with AI agents.

The company added more details about AI Runtime, a serverless graphics processing unit for enterprise deep learning that has been in preview for the past two months. Databricks also announced Genie Code for ML and Genie Zero Ops for ML, an agent for running machine learning systems.

Successful AI adoption depends less on models and technology than on workforce transformation, process redesign and organizational change.