Thursday Databricks launched SQL Analytics, the company’s new software for running SQL analytic workloads directly on huge stores of unorganized, often unstructured data known as data lakes.

Databricks is in talks to acquire startup Neon, which rents access to a cloud database service that’s designed for AI agents and applications, for around $1 billion, the technology news site Upstarts ...

San Francisco-based Neon has raised more than $130 million in funding from Microsoft Corp’s M12 fund and other backers. Its ...