Firehose

The FDA built an AI platform, ELSA, using Databricks, which reached 85% staff adoption in just two months by consolidating data from eight centers into a single governed data foundation, Halo, streamlining data sharing and enabling real-time data processing. This consolidation effort reduced data sharing time from days to minutes and cut regulatory research times from days to three minutes. The FDA's Office of Digital Transformation used this platform to demonstrate the value of a foundational data platform, which became contagious and led to widespread adoption. AI summary

Databricks has announced the Public Preview of Discover and Domains, powered by Unity Catalog, which provides an internal marketplace for data and AI assets, enabling users to find trusted, relevant data and AI assets through business-aligned organization, curation, and AI-powered recommendations. Domains provide business context that helps agents use the assets reliably, and the Discover page is the human-facing experience where people can browse domains and find the assets they need. This feature extends Unity Catalog Semantics to capture how organizations structure and understand their data in business terms. AI summary