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Microsoft Lost $1.1 Trillion (Your 401k Paid for It)

Microsoft has lost $1.1 trillion in market value. Big Tech is spending $725 billion on AI in 2026, and if you have a 401(k), you're helping fund the bet.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 21, 2026

Stickman: finance

SpaceX Lost a Trillion in 22 Days (you own it)

SpaceX went public, hit $3 trillion, then gave it all back in 22 days. If you have a retirement account, you probably own a piece of this.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 20, 2026

Stickman: finance

The $100K Feed Selling Trump's Posts to Wall Street

Wall Street pays Trump Media $100,000 a month to see the President's posts before you do. Here's why that matters.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 20, 2026

Stickman: finance

The $9.35 Trillion Dollar Problem Nobody Sees

The dollar's share of global reserves fell from 71% to 56.8%. Gold hit $5,318. The president says that's fine. Here's what a weaker dollar actually costs you.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 20, 2026

Cyber security

WordPress wp2shell RCE hits 500 million sites, patch now

Two WordPress Core CVEs form wp2shell, a pre-auth RCE chain that lets anonymous attackers run code on 6.9 and 7.0 sites with no plugins.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 19, 2026

AI for dummies

Inkling 975B: Thinking Machines releases open-weights model

Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weights model, Inkling, has 975B parameters, 41B active and an Apache 2.0 license, and targets fine-tuning over benchmarks.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 17, 2026

AI for dummies

Kimi K3 explained: what 2.8 trillion parameters means

Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight Kimi K3 matches top US closed models on key benchmarks, with weights due July 27.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 17, 2026

AI for dummies

Bonsai 27B puts a big AI model on your phone

Storing each parameter as a single bit lets Bonsai 27B fit 27 billion parameters into 3.9 GB and run on an iPhone. Here is what 1-bit quantization costs.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 15, 2026

Cyber security

Two SonicWall SMA 1000 zero-days under active attack

Two SonicWall SMA 1000 zero-day vulnerabilities including a CVSS 10.0 SSRF are under active exploitation. CISA KEV-listed with a July 17 patch deadline.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 15, 2026

Research

Anthropic J-space reveals LLM thoughts, but not fully

Anthropic's J-space exposes hidden words shaping LLM reasoning. Mechanistic interpretability advances, but misuse detection stays unproven.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 14, 2026

Research

Format Sensitivity Index exposes LLM benchmark gaps

The Format Sensitivity Index measures how LLM benchmark scores shift when prompt wrappers and schema constraints change. The metric exposes a blind spot in model evaluation that developers ignore at their peril.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 14, 2026

Engineering

Apple's dead car project built the Neural Engine

Apple's Neural Engine, born from its failed car project, became the backbone of on-device AI. The M7 Ultra with 1.5TB of RAM could put Apple in the server inference market by 2027.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jul 13, 2026