Google Cloud introduced a new AI agent platform, updated data architecture, and eighth-generation TPUs at Next 2026.

Google's Agentic Data Cloud rewires BigQuery, its data catalog and pipeline tooling around autonomous AI agents — not the human-scale queries enterprise data stacks were built for.

Google Cloud is turning the traditional enterprise data platform on its head, unveiling the Agentic Data Cloud infrastructure ...

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

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 ...

Meta has launched Muse Spark, its most powerful AI model yet and the first major product from Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang's newly formed Meta Superintelligence Lab. The company says larger, more ...

Following the icy reception to Llama 4, Meta is releasing the first in a new family of AI systems built by its recently formed Superintelligence team. The company is kicking off its new Muse era with ...

Meta on Wednesday announced Spark, the first AI model in the Muse family that it says represents “a ground-up overhaul of our AI efforts.” Meta said that Muse Spark will take advantage of content ...

As the AI industry races toward bigger models—and louder claims—Databricks is quietly building the infrastructure to make these models actually work for business. Databricks’s data management and ...

In the past decade or so, automakers have turned to downsized turbocharged engines—often with direct injection and higher compression ratios—to boost efficiency. These fancier power plants tend to ...

Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...