Releasesby GlyphYou can now publish a BigQuery data agent in Gemini Enterprise by registering the agent with Agent Registry...
You can now publish a BigQuery data agent in Gemini Enterprise by registering the agent with Agent Registry and importing it using default Google-managed credentials.
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Shopify connector (Beta)
The Shopify connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector ingests e-commerce data such as products, orders, customers, inventory, fulfillments, and discounts from Shopify into Databricks. Authentication uses the Shopify OAuth client credentials grant.
Lakebase backup schedule API (Beta)
You can now manage Lakebase backup schedules programmatically. The snapshot schedule API lets you read and set a root branch's automated snapshot cadences (daily, weekly, or monthly) and how long each cadence's snapshots are retained. This API is in Beta and available to all Lakebase workspaces. See Create a backup schedule .
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.
Claude Opus 5.5 launches with a 1M token context window and 128k output
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with a default 1M token context, 128k max output and always-on adaptive thinking. It costs $4 / $20 per MTok, below Claude Opus 5, and is on the Claude API, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Fast mode research preview available for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API
Fast mode, in research preview, can now be used with Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API.
Claude API beta lets tools be defined inside mid-conversation system messages
With the inline-tools-2026-09-15 beta header, a tool_addition block can carry a full tool definition, so agents can add tools, change schemas or upgrade server tools mid-conversation without invalidating the prompt cache. The same header covers adding and removing tools by reference.
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BigQuery Studio query results pane shows recent run history
The Query results pane now shows a short history of recent runs for a query, including multi-statement queries, without switching to the Job history tab. It is generally available.
In the BigQuery Studio query editor, the Query results table now keeps the row numbers visible on the left as...
In the BigQuery Studio query editor, the Query results table now keeps the row numbers visible on the left as you scroll horizontally. This helps you maintain context and track data across wide tables. This feature is generally available (GA).
You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets
You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets. Unit tests for pipelines are generally available (GA).
You can now write the output rows produced by BigQuery continuous queries directly into Apache Iceberg...
You can now write the output rows produced by BigQuery continuous queries directly into Apache Iceberg managed tables . This lets you continuously process streaming data from BigQuery and write it into your open-format lakehouse by using an INSERT DML statement .
BigQuery migration lineage service enters preview
The migration lineage service visualizes data flow and connections in a source database to help plan a BigQuery data warehouse migration.
The AI.KEY_DRIVERS function is now generally available (GA)
The AI.KEY_DRIVERS function is now generally available (GA). You can use the AI.KEY_DRIVERS function to identify segments of data that cause statistically significant changes to a summable metric.