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Replit has moved its Databricks integration into general availability and added native Lakebase support. The release combines application building with managed operational storage, preview environments and approval steps for database changes. It extends an earlier integration, so teams should separate the new deployment capabilities from previously available user-level data access.
Databricks has made Unity AI Gateway generally available, bringing access control, observability, cost attribution and runtime policy enforcement to agents, models, tools, skills and MCP servers. Smart Routing is also entering beta, with routing decisions based on quality, cost, performance, availability and budget.
Databricks has moved its Variant data type and Variant Shredding optimisation into general availability. The release is designed to preserve flexible ingestion for semi-structured data while automatically improving query performance across Delta and Iceberg workloads, including data used by analytics and AI applications.
Databricks has completed its acquisition of Panther, bringing the security operations vendor’s detection engine, workflows and integrations into its Lakewatch security lakehouse strategy. The combined pitch centres on open telemetry storage and AI agents that can triage, investigate and refine detections across enterprise data.