Databricks makes Genie agents programmable and schedulable
Databricks made Genie Agent mode APIs generally available, allowed scalar and table-valued Unity Catalog functions to act as agent tools, and added Genie Code as a beta Lakeflow Jobs task. A separate public preview brought Genie Code into AI Runtime notebooks for distributed-training development and troubleshooting.
Why it matters: Genie moved from an interactive assistant into APIs, unattended jobs and GPU engineering workflows. That makes service identity, tool scope, upstream data, auto-approval and terminal evidence operational controls rather than user-interface details.