Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation ...
The Next Web

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Zaharia began building Apache Spark as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in 2009, a faster alternative to Hadoop MapReduce, which had become the default framework for large-scale distributed data ...
South Bend Tribune

IRI Software Now Manages and Masks Data in Azure Databricks Delta Tables

MELBOURNE, FL, UNITED STATES, April 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading provider of data management and protection ...