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COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Zohran Mamdani has turned blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free ‘Soccer Streets’ where children can play in celebration of the upcoming World Cup.

Super excited to see you all there! Join us at our Databricks at CAIS event on May 27th luma.com/jx3kovza

We heard you like free stuff 👀 How’s 2 months of free Codex for your entire team? Go forth and build things 😁 openai.com/form/codex-ent…

Really excited about this work that combines GEPA with RL! You get some of the advantages of both, with reflection on rich feedback leading to better weight updates.

Zohran Mamdani is proof that politicians could get a lot of shit done if they actually cared about people

A news reporter asked Michael Jordan if he thought the ’90s Bulls could beat LeBron’s Lakers. MJ: Yes. Reporter: By how much? MJ: Two or three points. Reporter: Why so close? MJ: Most of us are almost 60 now.

The @Seahawks TNF win over the Rams in OT last season was wild 🔥 NFL Schedule Release - Thursday at 8pm ET on ESPN/NFLN

Hyukjin Kwon, Apache Spark PMC member, explains why Apache Arrow is becoming the universal language of data within the Spark ecosystem: it is not only about speed. 👇 🔸 Zero-copy columnar IPC → less memory overhead 🔸 One format to inspect data across JVM + Python 🔸 Arrow as the stack’s common columnar layer Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=zvq5Ui… #ApacheSpark #ApacheArrow

Today, Catalog Commits is now Generally Available for Unity Catalog managed Delta tables. Historically, Delta and Unity Catalog operated side-by-side – Delta managing transactional state at the storage layer, and Unity Catalog governing access at the catalog layer. As organizations scaled across more engines and workloads, this design led to new coordination challenges. Now, Delta and Unity Catalog are co-evolving to address these challenges and deliver more interoperable, governed, and performant lakehouses. This massive platform upgrade unlocks: • Expanded interoperability: External engines to write directly to UC managed Delta tables • Stronger governance: Consistent governance and auditing across engines • New features: Multi-table and multi-statement ACID transactions databricks.com/blog/convergen…

Cool work from the Databricks Model Serving team and Superhuman, to scale their custom LLM serving to 200K QPS with sub-second P99 latency! Here's how our teams got a +60% throughput gain vs the previous engine to serve over 40 million daily users. sprou.tt/1U9Jjq9glQl

If you’re in London, stop by and say hi to the Codex team this Thursday! @romainhuet and I will be there vibing :) luma.com/codex-ldn-1

There are some amazing performance database kernel folks at @databricks on the @neondatabase team databricks.com/blog/how-lakeb…

Neon has a custom cloud native storage. Up until now, we've used it mainly to improve safety and usability: Distributed storage is resilient to hardware failure and prevents data loss, it enables instant branching, instant recovery, instant read-replicas, scale-to-zero etc... Since joining Databricks, we've hired a world-class perf team who have begun leverage disaggregated architecture for better performance. Generally this architecture allows us to achieve much greater performance than vanilla Postgres even when it's running on NVMe. Tomorrow we publish a technical write-up on a major performance upgrade that is already live on all Neon and Lakebase regions.

I am horrified and angered by the swastikas painted on homes and synagogues in Queens, including on a plaque honoring survivors of Kristallnacht. This is not just vandalism — it is a deliberate act of antisemitic hatred meant to instill fear.

There is no place for antisemitism in Queens or anywhere in our city. I stand in solidarity with our Jewish neighbors. Their safety, dignity, and belonging are non-negotiable.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating and I am confident those responsible will be held accountable.

Unity Catalog and Google BigQuery now support bidirectional catalog federation, giving customers access to the same copy of data from either platform without duplication or data movement. Unified governance applies consistently across both, deepening the interoperability between Databricks and @googlecloud → databricks.com/blog/interoper…

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞 is now the most important way to do data analysis in Databricks. What's unique about it is its ability to extract semantics from your entire Lakehouse, enabling it to answer complex data questions that cripple agents without a deep data understanding. We've now added a Mobile version, added Unstructured data processing, as well as enabled it to operate on all your dashboards and notebooks. Check it out: databricks.com/blog/next-gene…

.@OpenAI GPT-5.5 is now available on Databricks, with Codex coding workflows and model inference fully governed through Unity AI Gateway. With GPT-5.5 on Databricks, you can: - Power coding workflows with Codex or other coding agents - Build custom agents grounded in enterprise data - Ask business questions in natural language from enterprise data with Genie - Automate document intelligence pipelines with Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines Hear more from our co-founder, @pwendell, and OpenAI CRO @dhdresser about how Databricks and OpenAI are bringing frontier AI to the enterprise. Get started today: databricks.com/blog/openai-gp…

Chi Osse on Zohran Mamdani: “I hate this narrative around this mayor not being a mayor for Black people. The last mayor was Black and he didn’t do crap on deed theft.”