Databricks closes $7B+ financing round at $134B valuation

Databricks Inc. today announced that it has raised more than $7 billion in equity and debt financing to accelerate its growth ...
InfoWorld

Databricks adds MemAlign to MLflow to cut cost and latency of LLM evaluation

By replacing repeated fine‑tuning with a dual‑memory system, MemAlign reduces the cost and instability of training LLM judges ...
eWeek

OpenAI Debuts GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a Near-Instant AI for Real-Time Coding

Spark, a lightweight real-time coding model powered by Cerebras hardware and optimized for ultra-low latency performance.
THE Journal

Snowflake Expands AI Stack With $200M OpenAI Partnership

Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership that will make OpenAI models available on Snowflake's platform.
Campus Technology

Snowflake, OpenAI Partner to Embed AI Models in Enterprise Data Workflows

Snowflake and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership that will make OpenAI models available on Snowflake's platform.
Harvard Business Review

What Is Disruptive Innovation?

Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain. by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor and Rory McDonald Please enjoy this HBR Classic. Clayton M.
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...