Marker, a powerful open-source conversion tool, transforms PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, and more into markdown or JSON at industry-leading speeds of up to 23.7 pages per second, outperforming rivals MinerU and docling with a 76% accuracy benchmark score while supporting optional AI integration via Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI.
An unidentified AI model called Ox Alpha stuns the tech world with frontier-level coding power and no known creator, while Lady Gaga's startup unveils living skin tech that slashes skincare discovery timelines, and Google's Gemini Canvas transforms spreadsheet data into shareable interactive dashboards instantly.
Cursor's new Git storage system, Continuity, is revolutionizing repository hosting by replacing traditional packfile architecture with an S3-backed write-ahead log, achieving over 300 pushes per second and fully consistent reads across 100+ replicas — a major leap beyond GitHub's industry-standard Spokes system.
The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz for potential antitrust violations after partners took board seats at competing AI data firms Databricks and Fivetran, raising concerns under a century-old law banning interlocking directorates.
Databricks launches Precision Mode for its AI Extract API, achieving 94.7% accuracy across 9,000 complex documents and outperforming GPT-4.5 Sol by seven percentage points using fine-tuned models and parallel agentic processing.
Only 15% of companies successfully scale AI agents despite widespread testing, as a new Deloitte survey exposes a critical gap between enterprise ambitions and real-world deployment, with legacy data systems, integration failures, and fragmented data blocking progress for the majority of businesses.
Databricks raises $5 billion in fresh funding, catapulting its valuation to $190 billion as the AI data powerhouse surpasses $7 billion in annual revenue run rate with over 80% year-over-year growth, fueled by explosive demand for AI agents and enterprise platforms.
Databricks surges to a $7B revenue run-rate with 80% year-over-year growth and closes a massive $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, as the company aggressively expands its AI agent infrastructure with Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway.
Databricks acquires Electric, the company behind PGlite, bringing full Postgres database power to phones, browsers, and AI agents via WebAssembly, enabling faster AI-assisted development on low-powered devices while syncing locally-run databases to enterprise cloud systems.
PGlite delivers a fully functional Postgres database directly in browsers and JavaScript runtimes as a tiny 3MB WASM package, supporting persistent storage, pgvector, PostGIS, and zero dependencies.