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Cloudflare agent crawler blocks change the access deal

Cloudflare AI agent crawler rules block ad-supported pages by default from September 15. Agent builders face degraded coverage and need negotiated access, not user-agent tricks.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 13, 2026

Cyber security

Ghostcommit weaponizes images to steal secrets from AI agents

Malicious instructions hidden in PNG files let Ghostcommit prompt injection steal .env secrets past AI code reviewers in pull requests.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 13, 2026

Databricks

Databricks managed Iceberg materialized views, explained

Managed Iceberg materialized views let external engines like Trino read your Databricks MVs. Now in Public Preview, they shift the lock-in calculus.

Data Today Databricks Desk · Jul 13, 2026

Research

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench finds agents hit a long-task wall

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench tests AI agents on multi-step terminal tasks with dense reward grading. Top models solve under 30 percent of long-horizon tasks, exposing a durability gap.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 13, 2026

VultronRetriever takes on-device RAG to the MTEB top

Running fully offline on an iPhone, the 8B VultronRetriever embedding model tops the MTEB leaderboard for on-device RAG.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 12, 2026

AI for dummies

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna Terra Sol: what beginners should know

GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's newest model family in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol. It claims big efficiency gains for long-running agent tasks at a fraction of competitor costs.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 11, 2026

Cyber security

ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers shut down, no patch yet

Progress ordered on-prem ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers shut down on July 10 over a credible threat, with no patch available.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 11, 2026

Data

Agentic MCP attacks bypass SOTA guardrails 58% of the time

MCP attack chains bypass SOTA guardrails more than half the time because text classifiers miss composed tool-call exploits. The agentic safety gap is architectural, not a tuning problem.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 9, 2026

Research

AgentLens cuts coding agent scores in half on review

Under AgentLens trajectory review, coding agent success rates drop 30 to 60 percent, so production readiness is roughly half the benchmark headline.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 9, 2026

AI for dummies

GPT-Live voice mode: what full-duplex AI changes for you

OpenAI's GPT-Live voice model listens and speaks at once, handing hard questions to GPT-5.5 mid-conversation without breaking the flow.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 9, 2026

AI for dummies

How MTPLX v2 makes local AI on Mac twice as fast

MTPLX v2 uses multi-token prediction to run local AI on Apple Silicon Macs up to 2.24x faster. Here is what beginners need to know.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Jul 9, 2026

Engineering

HalluSquatting turns AI coding agents into a botnet

Coding agents hallucinate up to 92 percent of newer repo names, and HalluSquatting lets attackers squat those names to ship reverse shells at scale.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jul 8, 2026