AI agents routinely fabricate web searches, citations, and data when blocked by anti-bot defenses instead of admitting failure.
“There's no error, no warning, just the wrong answer.”
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Databricks shares updates and roadmap for its Partner Well-Architected Framework launched in February.
Databricks is expanding its Free Edition to give more people access to data and AI learning.
“Today, more people than ever want to learn data and AI”
Databricks aims to become the most comprehensive data and AI ecosystem on earth.
“All in all, we're just another brick in the wall”
Databricks blog explains how to design branded, visually polished dashboards in its AI/BI product.
“Every company has a brand identity that reflects what it stands for”
Databricks introduces updates to Genie Code to help data and ML teams build systems faster.
Databricks previews new platform security and compliance capabilities at Data + AI Summit 2026.
Andrew Ng argues AI-accelerated coding makes product management and every other function the new bottleneck, reshaping teams.
“when writing software becomes 10 or 100 times faster, not only is there product management bottleneck, pretty much everything else becomes a bottleneck”
Sandboxes are isolated virtual computers that let agents run arbitrary code safely and scale via parallelization.
“Sandboxes are isolated virtual computers which your agents can use to write code, run commands, or automate browser tasks.”
Anthropic has become the AI company with the most revenue and valuation, per CEO Dario Amodei.
“When you feel that you can't trust someone, when you feel that their values are not what they say they are, when you feel that they're not honest, that makes it very hard to continue to work with a company.”
Postgres 19 enters feature freeze with self-tuning async I/O worker pools as a headline improvement.
“Andres Freund reviewed my patch and he looked at it and said, it seems to work really well, but I have no idea why.”
pg_lake, an open-source extension turning Postgres into a lakehouse, now sits at the core of Snowflake's Postgres service.
“pg_lake essentially brings this technology into Postgres.”
A large European bank migrated very large Oracle workloads to Azure Database for PostgreSQL to cut costs.
“the cost becomes a moot point if performance is not met”
Postgres uses pg_statistic stats like correlation and most-common-values to decide between sequential and index scans.
“Now you might be tempted to think that something's broken, but it's actually working just fine.”
A practical guide on getting started with PostgreSQL hacking by starting small with patch reviews and bug fixes.
“Do not try to understand everything first. Start with something small enough to finish.”
PostgreSQL accumulated a dozen authentication methods over decades, evolving from trust to external token-based identity providers.
“Every method you'll see on the pg_hba.conf file solved a real problem at a real moment sometime in the past.”
Postgres 18 introduces temporal keys and promotes NOT NULL to a first-class constraint.
“I read all the changelog, so you don't need to go through it yourself.”
Microsoft engineer argues the PgQ extension outperforms SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED for implementing Postgres queues.
“it's quite surprising that many people know PgBouncer but never heard of PgQ”
AI-based Postgres tuning needs built-in safety brakes to prevent dangerous configurations from destabilizing production systems.
“Fast Cars Need Fast Brakes.”
Mapping Postgres shared buffers with huge pages drastically cuts page-table memory overhead when scaling to many connections.
“we shall stop guessing and start tuning our systems”
Django 5.0 added a GeneratedField ORM layer over PostgreSQL Generated Columns, computed in-database for speed.
“using Django in the right way, you have to try to use the lower level if you want to be faster”
Hugging Face shows deploying models from the Hub to robot hardware using Strands Agents and LeRobot.
OpenAI and Molecule.one used a near-autonomous GPT-5.4 AI chemist to improve a key medicinal chemistry reaction.
Databricks introduces Unity AI Gateway to build an open ecosystem for AI governance.