Databricks has introduced Genie One, an AI agentic coworker designed to automate and orchestrate business team workflows, and agreed to acquire cloud-native security platform Panther, as part of a wave of announcements at the Data + AI Summit 2026.

Databricks said Genie One is powered by what it calls Genie Ontology, which continuously learns business context from enterprise data, applications and workplace systems to deliver more accurate answers and actions across both structured and unstructured, analytical and operational data. The launch reflects the company’s push to move enterprises beyond AI experimentation toward systems that can reason and act on live business context.

A security lakehouse takes shape

Alongside Genie One, Databricks announced an agreement to acquire Panther, a cloud-native security platform, in a move it said will strengthen its security capabilities and accelerate its vision for a “security lakehouse” that helps organisations monitor, detect and respond to threats while maintaining confidence in their data and AI systems. The acquisition adds a dedicated security angle to a summit otherwise focused on agentic AI and data infrastructure.

Real-time data and a new architecture for AI agents

Databricks also launched Lakehouse//RT, enabling organisations to analyse and act on streaming data in real time, and introduced Lakeflow Transactional and Analytical Processing (LTAP), a new architecture designed to bring operational and analytical workloads together so AI-powered applications can reason and act on live enterprise data without managing separate systems. A fourth launch, CustomerLake, brings customer data, identity resolution, audience building and campaign automation onto a single AI-native foundation for marketers.

Databricks said the announcements “reflect the next phase of enterprise AI adoption, where organisations are moving beyond experimentation toward intelligent systems capable of understanding context, supporting decisions and automating business processes.”

A broad enterprise customer base

Databricks said more than 20,000 organisations worldwide, including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever and 70 per cent of the Fortune 500, rely on its platform to build and scale data and AI applications, analytics and agents. The company’s unified platform spans Lakebase, Genie, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse and Unity Catalog.

The breadth of the announcements underscores how data platform vendors are racing to bundle agentic AI capabilities with security and real-time data infrastructure, as enterprises increasingly demand that AI agents operate on live, governed data rather than static snapshots. For organisations evaluating data platforms, the Panther acquisition in particular signals that security monitoring is becoming a core expectation of AI infrastructure providers rather than a separate add-on.