The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been removed
The BigQuery Metadata curation console page has been deprecated. Users should now use Knowledge Catalog for data discovery, profiling, and governance tasks.
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Use GPT-6-Cyber to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in an authorized test environment, and verify
OpenAI has released GPT-6-Cyber, a model designed to investigate vulnerabilities, reproduce them in authorized environments, and verify fixes.
Announcing Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Answer is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It provides a managed tool that returns synthesized, cited answers grounded in web sources in a single call.
Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk put items
Bulk put items for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available, allowing users to write data from Amazon S3 into DynamoDB tables without building custom ingestion pipelines.
New pull request overview page in public preview
GitHub introduced an opt-in overview page for pull requests that displays merge status and next actions in a compact summary at the top of the page. This feature aims to reduce scrolling and clarify the state of pull requests.
More external knowledge sources
Databricks announced plans to support Tableau and Sigma as external knowledge sources for AI/BI and Genie.
External knowledge sources are in Beta
Databricks introduced beta support for external knowledge sources, allowing users to pull metadata from Power BI semantic models into Databricks. Genie can now use these definitions to answer questions.
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Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now available in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) location
Conversational analytics in BigQuery is now supported in the asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) region.
BigQuery query text heatmap adds hierarchical context reference navigation
BigQuery query text heatmap now allows users to view and navigate through a hierarchical list of context references, such as nested function calls or view references, for stage steps in general availability.
BigQuery query text heatmap supports persistent and temporary UDFs
BigQuery query text heatmap in the query execution graph now supports displaying SQL text for both persistent and temporary user-defined functions (UDFs) in general availability.
BigQuery Graph and GQL queries are available with on-demand pricing
BigQuery Graph and Graph Query Language (GQL) are now supported for users on on-demand pricing models.
BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Shopify deprecates specific fields
Effective January 31, 2027, the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for Shopify will no longer support the legacyMode field in DeliveryProfile and the permitSkuSharing field in FulfillmentService.
BigQuery adds organization policy controls for models in preview
Users can now define custom organization policies to allow or deny specific operations on models within BigQuery. This feature is currently in preview.
In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names
In BigQuery Studio , the left pane has been updated with new tab names. The Classic Explorer tab has been renamed to the Data tab, and the Repository tab has been renamed to the Source control tab. The Data tab now includes the Add data button and focuses on data hierarchies. These changes are generally available (GA).
You can now use persistent and temporary SQL user-defined functions (UDFs) in BigQuery continuous queries to...
You can now use persistent and temporary SQL user-defined functions (UDFs) in BigQuery continuous queries to encapsulate and reuse custom real-time transformation logic. Only SQL UDFs are supported in continuous queries.