Databricks

Databricks’ “Week of Agents” continues with a substantial expansion of Unity AI Gateway — adding agent-specific governance features that address what’s become the central concern for enterprise AI teams: not just can our agents work, but can we control, audit, and trust what they’re doing at scale? The additions — fine-grained OBO access control, LLM-powered guardrails, managed MCP servers, and full MLflow audit trails — go well beyond the routing and quota management the core gateway launched with in November 2025. ...

Databricks has been on a quiet march toward becoming the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI for years — data lakes, MLflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog. Today at RSAC 2026, the company took its most surprising market move yet: entering enterprise cybersecurity with the announcement of Lakewatch, an open agentic SIEM. What Is Lakewatch? SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management — the category of tools that ingest security telemetry, correlate it, generate alerts, and support incident response. Splunk has dominated this category for years; SentinelOne, Microsoft Sentinel, and Elastic Security are the major challengers. ...

Data engineering has always been the unglamorous backbone of modern analytics — the work of plumbing data from sources into pipelines into dashboards. It’s skilled, time-consuming, and often the bottleneck between business insight and business action. Databricks is aiming to change that with Genie Code, an autonomous AI agent launched this week that can build, run, and iterate on data workflows without human intervention. The announcement, confirmed by Databricks’ official press release, PR Newswire, and BigDATAwire/HPCwire, positions Genie Code as the enterprise data stack’s first production-grade agentic layer. ...