Moonshot AI Kimi K3.1 Pro is now available on Unity Gateway
Databricks added Moonshot AI Kimi K3.1 Pro to Unity Gateway on pay-per-token endpoints in us-east-1, offering native vision and reasoning capabilities for agent workflows.
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[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL stable REST API version 2026-10-01
The Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server REST API version 2026-10-01 is now generally available, introducing new capabilities for maintenance, immutable backups, and encryption.
Analytics API (Public preview): report on the health of the data behind your agents, from your AI tool
The Monte Carlo Analytics API is now in public preview, allowing users to query data health, alert status, and cost metrics directly from AI tools via the Monte Carlo MCP server.
Twice the included embedding tokens through December 31
Pinecone is doubling the included monthly embedding tokens for Starter and Builder organizations through December 31, 2026.
Gemini Enterprise: Switch between teams in the mobile app
The Gemini Enterprise mobile app now supports switching between multiple teams without re-authentication, and allows renaming or removing teams from the list.
Compare AI agent changes with Online Experiments in Agent Observability
Datadog Online Experiments allows engineers to test AI agent changes against production traffic. It enables comparison of response quality, cost, latency, and error rates.
Postmortems End of Life Completed
The Postmortems feature has been retired in favor of the upgraded Post-Incident Reviews in the PagerDuty web UI.
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AI Functions require Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS or above
Databricks announced that starting January 2027, AI Functions requiring Databricks Runtime 15.4 LTS or higher (excluding ai_similarity) will mandate Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS or above.
Publish Unity Gateway Skills with a GitHub Action in Beta
Databricks launched a GitHub Action in beta to automatically publish and update Git-managed skills to Unity Catalog upon merging code.
Run Claude Code and Codex in the SSH tunnel
Claude Code and Codex agents can now be run within SSH tunnel sessions in Databricks, using Unity Gateway for authentication.
Upcoming removal of AI Functions support on older runtimes
Starting January 2027, AI Functions in SQL queries will require Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS or higher. This change does not affect ai_similarity or the AI Functions REST API.
Managed warehouse for MLflow (Beta)
Managed warehouse for MLflow is available in Beta, enabling users to view Unity Catalog traces in the MLflow UI without manually choosing a SQL warehouse.
AI Functions usage is now included in Unity Gateway budgets
Beginning November 1, 2026, Unity Gateway budgets include spend from task-specific AI Functions such as ai_parse_document , ai_extract , and ai_classify across batch and real-time execution paths. See Manage budgets for Unity Gateway .
Claude Code auto mode for Anthropic and non-Anthropic models
Claude Code auto mode is now available for both Anthropic and non-Anthropic models hosted on Databricks, reducing permission prompts for tool calls.
View personal and shared spend limits with the ug CLI
The ug CLI updated `ug usage` to display up to five active spend limits ordered by highest percentage used.