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Ford AI quality fix puts veterans back in the loop

Ford brought 350 veteran engineers back as JD Power quality scores rose and recalls stayed costly, a lesson in AI automation debt.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 25, 2026

Engineering

IBM nanostack chip gives Moore’s Law a vertical path

Stacking transistors, IBM's 0.7 nm nanostack research chip nearly doubles its 2021 density claim to almost 100 billion transistors.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 25, 2026

Business

Oracle AI layoffs expose the cloud capital tradeoff

21,000 fewer workers, $48 billion raised and a cloud roadmap funded by debt: Oracle's AI layoffs signal a capital reallocation.

Data Today Markets Desk · Jun 24, 2026

Engineering

Post-quantum cryptography deadline gets a 2030 clock

Post-quantum cryptography deadline means high-value federal systems must shift key establishment by 2030 and signatures by 2031.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 24, 2026

Research

RIFT-Bench tests agents where prompts cannot reach

Attacks activated in 78.9 to 89.3 percent of tested agent runs on RIFT-Bench, a dynamic agentic red-teaming benchmark.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 24, 2026

Engineering

Copilot spend meter shows where AI coding costs bite

VS Code's new Copilot spend meter warns about AI credit overruns. Treat the 1,500 Pro credits as a budget, not a perk.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 23, 2026

Cyber security

AutoJack makes AI agent prototypes a real RCE risk

One malicious page chained three AutoGen Studio weaknesses into command execution. AutoJack is a host RCE warning for AI agent prototypes.

Data Today Security Desk · Jun 23, 2026

Engineering

High-NA EUV turns AI chips into a $400M bottleneck

ASML's $400M High-NA EUV tool brings an 8 nm lithography step for denser AI chips. Treat it as a roadmap risk and cost signal.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 23, 2026

Engineering

45C liquid cooling gives Nvidia a tougher water defense

45C liquid cooling lets Rubin racks reject heat with dry coolers, cutting on-site water use while shifting scrutiny to power and buildout.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 23, 2026

Databricks

Databricks Lakeflow Designer GA cost guide for teams

Analyst-built, governed data prep is now GA in Databricks Lakeflow Designer. Use it for visual transforms, but meter previews and jobs.

Data Today Databricks Desk · Jun 22, 2026

Databricks

Databricks PAT auto-scoping is a quiet job breaker

Databricks PAT auto-scoping narrows long-lived tokens after 30 days of observed API use. Audit automation now before jobs fail.

Data Today Databricks Desk · Jun 22, 2026

Matillion

Matillion anomaly alerts: runtime drift without polling

Matillion anomaly alerts flag runtime drift after 10 successful runs, using up to 300 runs of history so you can watch cost before failure.

Data Today Matillion Desk · Jun 22, 2026