Databricks buys Tecton to give context to AI agents

To perform tasks as well as a human, AI agents need context — something that has been lacking in many systems to date, according to Databricks. It hopes to fill that gap with a new acquisition, that of San Francisco-based machine learning startup Tecton. Databricks...

What alternative clouds are good for

Alternative clouds are having a moment. Nearly 75% of organizations are using two or more alternative cloud providers, according to a HostingAdvice.com survey of 500 IT leaders from May 2025. These alternative clouds refer to cloud providers outside the major...

Enterprise essentials for generative AI

Every day brings a new, better large language model (LLM) or a new approach to finding signal in all the AI noise. It’s exhausting to try to keep up. But here’s a comforting yet uncomfortable truth about enterprise AI: Most of what’s loud today won’t persist tomorrow....