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Databricks hits $5.4B revenue run rate and banks a $134B valuation in a rare software surge

Databricks reached a $5.4B revenue run rate as demand for practical AI and data platforms grows across enterprise software.

Under the hood of the AI economy with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi

Of the databases on Databricks' platform, 80% are now being built by AI agents, not people. And these aren't all tech ...
Dark Reading

AsyncRAT Malware Infests Orgs via Python & Cloudflare

An emerging phishing campaign is exploiting a dangerous combination of legitimate Cloudflare services and open source Python tools to deliver the commodity AsyncRAT. The attack demonstrates threat ...
MIT Technology Review

Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...
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Meta just achieved mind-reading using AI

This video covers two breakthroughs that push “mind reading” from fiction into early reality: UT Austin decoding language from brain activity, and Meta decoding visual perception from brain waves. At ...
Variety

‘Stranger Things 5’ Table Read Video Shows Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown and More Freak Out While Discovering Will Byers Twist

The jaws of “Stranger Things”s cast literally dropped when the Duffer brothers revealed the shocking twist of Season 5 Volume 1 where Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) becomes “a sorcerer.” The YouTube page ...
Rolling Stone

The ‘Stranger Things’ Cast Went Crazy Over That Will Byers Twist

In newly released video of a table read for Stranger Things‘ fifth season, the cast reacts with ecstatic joy to that huge twist involving the character Will Byers. Read on, only if you’ve watched the ...
Reuters

Databricks in talks to raise capital at $134 billion valuation, The Information reports

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Data analytics firm Databricks is in talks to raise $5 billion at a valuation of $134 billion, which is roughly 32 times this year's expected sales of about $4.1 billion, The ...
Reuters

Databricks in talks to raise capital at above $130 billion valuation, The Information reports

Nov 17 (Reuters) - Data analytics firm Databricks is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of more than $130 billion, about 30% higher than its last financing round two months ago, The Information ...
The Clarion-Ledger

In MS, record number of third-graders pass initial reading test. What district data shows

A record 77.3% of Mississippi third graders passed their initial reading assessment in spring 2025. The total pass rate, including retests, reached 84.6%, a slight increase from the previous school ...
VentureBeat

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology ...