The release note is the clearest single list of what's in 19 and what got cut — read it before you test an upgrade, especially the forced string-literal change.
At the Data + AI Summit keynote, Databricks expanded Agent Bricks into a fuller agent-building platform and introduced Unity AI Gateway for governing AI assets in one place.
Starting July 6, Databricks Genie products (Spaces, Code, One) move from included to pay-as-you-go billing, with 150 free DBUs per user per month and Genie Spaces rebranded as Genie Agents.
At the Data + AI Summit keynote, Databricks expanded Agent Bricks into a fuller agent-building platform and introduced Unity AI Gateway for governing AI assets in one place.
A SiliconAngle analysis unpacks how Snowflake and Databricks are racing past data platforms to claim the agentic AI tier — the layer that enterprise users will actually talk to.
Amazon's Quick AI assistant is now available in Free and Plus pricing tiers with a native desktop app for macOS and Windows, adding connectors for Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable, Dropbox, and Microsoft Teams alongside visual asset generation.
dbt Labs unveiled the first alpha of dbt Core v2.0 at Snowflake Summit, the biggest version bump since the project launched, headlined by UDF-aware deferral.
Google's Managed Service for Apache Airflow began rolling out a release that adds resource tags for IAM policy conditions, a dark theme in the Cloud Console, and faster worker startup on package-heavy environments.
Flink 2.3.0 is a substantial SQL release, adding changelog conversion operators and pushing materialized tables forward — a meaningful step beyond the 2.1.3 bugfix that shipped two weeks ago.