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Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilo

SkyPilot, from Databricks’ cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute
Backed by Lux Capital, SkyPilot helps customers use GPUs wherever they're available.

Apple korrigiert Anleitung zum Umgang mit verschlüsseltem HFS
Ab macOS 28 können Macs eine Variante des traditionellen Dateiformats nicht mehr lesen. Apple machte nun neue Angaben dazu, was Nutzer vorab tun sollten.

Apple korrigiert Anleitung zum Umgang mit verschlüsseltem HFS+
Ab macOS 28 können Macs eine Variante des traditionellen Dateiformats nicht mehr lesen. Apple machte nun neue Angaben dazu, was Nutzer vorab tun sollten.

Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80% YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/databricks-revenue-g…

Databricks sales growth tops 80%, but margin are shrinking from swarm of AI agents
Databricks is seeing higher growth as AI agents assist with data analysis, but all that activity is significantly increasing costs.

{nplyr} has helper functions to work on nested dataframes: #rstats #datascience

A Grammar of Nested Data Manipulation
Provides functions for manipulating nested data frames in a list-column using dplyr syntax. Rather than unnesting, then manipulating a data frame, nplyr allows users to manipulate each nested data frame directly. nplyr is a wrapper for dplyr functions that provide tools for common data manipulation steps: filtering rows, selecting columns, summarising grouped data, among others.

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Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats

More Efficient Tidyverse Code, Using Polars in the Background
Polars is a cross-language tool for manipulating very large data. However, one drawback is that the R implementation has a syntax that will look odd to many R users who are not used to Python syntax. The objective of tidypolars is to improve the ease-of-use of Polars in R by providing tidyverse syntax to polars.

Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021 (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/databri…

Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80% YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/databricks-revenue-g…

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/databricks-set-to-…