Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

OpenAI Says Codex Agents Are Autonomously Running Its Data Platform

Inside OpenAI’s ‘self-operating’ infrastructure, where Codex-powered AI agents debug failures, manage releases, and compress ...

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 ...

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and ...
TMCnet

Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Built on a new architecture KumoRFM-2 achieves state-of-the-art results across 41 predictive tasks and four major benchmarks, ...

Snowflake: Cheap Enough To Watch, Not Yet Cheap Enough To Buy

Snowflake faces structural issues, hyperscaler rent, geopolitical data localization, and self-inflicted pricing pressure from ...
NerdWallet

Capital One Spark Miles Select Review: Solid Travel Rewards With No Fee

Capital One rebranded its Spark Miles suite of cards in April 2026. The Spark® Miles Select is now known as the VentureOne Business card. NerdWallet's content is fact-checked for accuracy, timeliness, ...
NPR

The Spark

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb starts ...