Releasesby GlyphLooker merge query tiles now edit inside the dashboard canvas
With the New Looker Explore and Merge Query Experience preview features on, editing a merge query tile opens the Join data page in the dashboard edit canvas instead of a new tab.
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Monitor and cap external provider costs
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.
Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
Hy4 Preview now available on AI Gateway
Hy4 Preview from Tencent is now available on AI Gateway. Hy4 Preview is an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 770B total parameters and 49B active per token, aimed at long-horizon coding, document analysis, game development, and scientific reasoning. It serves a context window of 1M tokens.
GitHub Copilot weekly releases , August 24
This week’s updates give you more control over how Copilot runs, from team sessions in Slack and Teams to customization across the app, CLI, and your IDE. GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams Turn team conversations into shared agent sessions.
Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing
To provide a strong, consistent Copilot experience, we’re making three separate, upcoming changes to Copilot policies and billing. Please review the upcoming updates to understand what may impact you.
Training Serverless Training deprecation: Qwen 3.5 9B and Qwen 3.6 27B Qwen 3.5 9B and Qwen 3.6 27B are...
Training Serverless Training deprecation: Qwen 3.5 9B and Qwen 3.6 27B Qwen 3.5 9B and Qwen 3.6 27B are deprecated from Serverless Training effective August 26, 2026. Migrate new and existing Serverless Training workloads to Qwen 3.8 27B . This change applies to the shared Serverless Training pool.
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Looker 26.14 features auto-enable on Looker (original), August 24 to 26, 2026
A set of features will be automatically enabled for Looker (original) instances running Looker 26.14 between August 24 and August 26, 2026.
Looker CI can be triggered from GitLab CI, Bitbucket and GitHub Actions
Looker Continuous Integration can now run from GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows through the Looker API and the looker-sdk Python SDK, with sample scripts in the docs.
Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
You can now configure Continuous Integration to automatically run CI suites when a dbt Cloud CI job finishes
You can now configure Continuous Integration to automatically run CI suites when a dbt Cloud CI job finishes . The CI suite run verifies whether changes in your dbt models will cause SQL errors in your Looker Explores before the dbt changes are deployed.
Looker New/Edit Roles Enhancement enters preview
A modernized step-by-step interface for creating and editing roles is available in preview on the Roles page of the Admin panel.