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Select AI for Java provides a Java SDK for using Select AI capabilities in Java applications. Use the Java-native API to work with AI profiles, credentials, conversations, vector indexes, natural-language SQL, RAG, summarization, translation, feedback, and synthetic data generation. See Select AI for Java for more information.
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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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Share and Run the Select AI Agent Framework teams Across Schemas
You can now share the Select AI Agent Framework teams across database schemas. Define and manage an agent team in one schema, then grant another database user or role permission to run the team by using an owner-qualified team name.
Bring Your Own Reservations for Data Science
You can use existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute capacity reservations with supported Data Science resources, including notebook sessions, single-node jobs and job runs, and model deployments. Bring Your Own Reservations (BYOR) uses Compute capacity that's reserved in your tenancy without transferring the reservation to Data Science.
Route on-demand inference requests across regions with smart model router
OCI Generative AI now supports smart model router for cross-region routing of on-demand inference requests within a user-selected regional scope. Create a routing profile that specifies an on-demand model and select regions within the same realm where that model is available. Then reference the routing profile in a Chat API or Responses API request.
Import DeepSeek V4.1 Flash into OCI Generative AI
You can now import the deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model into OCI Generative AI, create endpoints for it, and use it in the Generative AI service. The model supports text, image, and combined image and text inputs and generates text.
Import Google Gemma 4 26B A4B IT into OCI Generative AI
You can now import the google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it model into OCI Generative AI, create endpoints for it, and use it in the Generative AI service. The model supports text, image, and combined image and text inputs and generates text.
Find models by region with model discovery in OCI Generative AI
OCI Generative AI now supports model discovery. Use model discovery to find models in a specified region and review details such as: Model capability including chat, text embedding, and text reranking. Input and output types, such as IMAGE_TEXT_TO_TEXT. Whether a model supports on-demand or dedicated serving.
New Retirement Date for On-Demand Models in Abu Dhabi
The retirement date for the Cohere Command A Vision ( cohere.command-a-vision ) and Cohere Embed 4 ( cohere.embed-v4.0 ) on-demand models in the UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) region has changed from October 12, 2026, to October 21, 2026. After retirement, on-demand inference calls to these models in the UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) region will no longer work.
HeatWave: Automatic Storage Expansion Enhanced
Automatic storage expansion now increases the DB system storage when the remaining available storage is 10% or less of the currently allocated storage. The new storage size is calculated based on the current allocation, and the expanded size cannot exceed the configured maximum storage size.