Releasesby GlyphAnthropic Claude Fable 5.2 is now available on Unity Gateway
Anthropic Claude Fable 5.2 is now available on Unity Gateway. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Customers are responsible for ensuring their compliance with applicable terms .
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AlloyDB AI smart batching and sentiment analysis are generally available
AlloyDB AI smart batching for AI functions and the ai.analyze_sentiment function are now generally available on PostgreSQL 17 and later. Smart batching improves query performance by offloading AI operations asynchronously.
BigQuery compute cost attribution is available in preview
BigQuery now supports compute cost attribution in preview, allowing users to track billed compute charges at the project level based on reservation capacity usage for FinOps reporting.
BigQuery jobs explorer performance troubleshooting is generally available
BigQuery jobs explorer now provides generally available tools for troubleshooting query performance and comparing job and system performance to diagnose regressions.
BigQuery pipeline task concurrency limits are generally available
Users can now specify the maximum number of concurrently executed tasks when creating or scheduling BigQuery pipelines.
BigQuery adds Zstandard compression functions in preview
BigQuery now supports Zstandard (Zstd) compression and decompression functions for bytes and string values in GoogleSQL, currently available in preview.
AWS Glue adds 100 new native connectors for popular SaaS applications
AWS Glue now includes 100 native connectors for SaaS and REST API applications, enabling data integration without custom code. These connectors allow teams to reuse connections across ETL jobs with existing permission models.
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Provision Claude desktop with MDM using Unity Gateway
Admins can now use Unity Gateway to provision the Claude desktop app machine-wide via MDM, including pre-configured models, MCP servers, and skills for macOS users.
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.
Smart Routing is faster and lower cost, and now routes subagents only (Beta)
Smart Routing now routes only subagents, not the first prompt. It costs up to 70% less in internal benchmarks and cuts p90 routing latency from 9 seconds to 2 seconds. Smart Routing for Codex is paused. See Select models or use Smart Routing .
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.
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.
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.
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.