Trump kneecaps Anthropic, SpaceX bags Cursor and Databricks debuts AI agent coworker
Databricks may keep refusing to go public, but this week it wasn’t shy about proclaiming its intentions to be a central player in artificial intelligence.
At its annual Data + AI conference in San Francisco this week, it made the case that AI agents can become the next-generation system of record for enterprises, which software-as-a-service applications serve as now, but only if there’s a solid data platform to provide useful context for enterprise work. “What does future SaaS stack look like? An agent system of record that taps into all the apps,” said Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. “So what does the agent system of record look like? It’s actually the data and AI platform.”
Part of Databricks’ bid for dominance, especially vs. rival Snowflake, which held its conference two weeks ago, is, naturally, a new set of agents, called Genie One, that it styles as an “agentic coworker.” There’s a lot more, so check out our stories below.
Anthropic ran into a Trump administration buzzsaw as its latest models were banned for foreign use, forcing the AI model maker to shut down access entirely. No telling what happens next — it’s the Trump administration, after all — but it’s a sudden reversal of Anthropic’s recent good fortune.
