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Claude Opus 5.5 is available in Model Garden.
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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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Gemini 3.8 Live
Gemini 3.8 Live is generally available. This release introduces improvements in voice quality, model reliability, and agent orchestration. For more information, see the following: Gemini 3.8 Live Gemini Live API overview
Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta
Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta is available in Preview . Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta is a reasoning model trained for agentic workflows and competitive coding. It delivers higher first-attempt accuracy, reliable built-in tool calling with MCP support, and 1M-token long context for multi-step tasks.
Semantic governance policies support VPC Service Controls (Preview)
Semantic governance policy and the Semantic governance policy engine support VPC Service Controls in Preview . You can include Semantic governance policy and the policy engine in your service perimeter to help mitigate the risk of data exfiltration when governing agent tool calls.
xAI's Grok 4.6 is generally available
Grok 4.6 is now generally available (GA) and available for production use on the global endpoint and the US multi-region endpoint.
Agent Platform SDK for Python version 2.0.1 is available
Version 2.0.1 of the Agent Platform SDK for Python ( google-cloud-agentplatform ) is now available. This release migrates generative AI modules to the Google Gen AI SDK, decouples the agent surface from google-cloud-aiplatform into a dedicated package, and introduces restructured namespaces.
Gemini Omni Flash supports stateful and streaming video generation (Preview)
Gemini Omni Flash supports stateful ( store: true ) and server-sent event (SSE) streaming ( stream: true ) video generation in the Interactions API in Preview . You can temporarily store generated videos and interaction state on the server, stream status updates and final outputs over an SSE connection, or retrieve completed asynchronous interactions using...
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available in Model Garden.
Provisioned Throughput: Support for changing order scope and increasing term
Provisioned Throughput now directly supports from the self service console the ability to change the scope or increase the term of an order through a supersede and replace operation. For more information, see Restructure an order .