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AgentPerf puts Blackwell’s agent lead at 20x per watt

The first AgentPerf results for concurrent AI agents put NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 at up to 20 times Hopper's efficiency per watt.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 13, 2026

Engineering

olmo-eval brings statistical discipline to LLM loops

Tiny checkpoint gains become harder to mistake for progress with olmo-eval, Ai2's open workbench for iterative LLM evaluation.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 13, 2026

Amazon data centers put 2.5B gallons on the AI bill

Amazon data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025. Treat that disclosure as a roadmap risk for AI products.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 12, 2026

Generative engine optimization: how to rank inside an LLM

Getting content cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews takes specific tactics. What generative engine optimization rewards and what to change.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 12, 2026

Engineering

Miasma worm: live coverage of the Red Hat npm attack

Hijacking Red Hat's GitHub Actions OIDC publishing, the Miasma npm worm shipped 96 backdoored versions whose preinstall hook steals and spreads secrets.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 12, 2026

VS Code Autopilot puts agent risk in every default

Coding agents get more autonomy now that VS Code Autopilot is on by default. Treat the new default as a policy change, not a shortcut.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 12, 2026

Business

Agentic commerce gets Visa’s ChatGPT payment rails

Visa's ChatGPT deal brings agentic commerce, where AI agents complete purchases with permission, to 4.8 billion payment credentials.

Data Today Markets Desk · Jun 11, 2026

Claude Fable 5 guardrails get a visibility reset

After the backlash, Claude Fable 5 guardrails are visible. Builders should log fallback events, cost and retention before trusting runs.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 11, 2026

Multi-agent safety gets Google’s $10 million test

Google's $10 million multi-agent safety program starts small against the risk of interacting AI agents amplifying each other's failures.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 11, 2026

Engineering

Confidential inference makes Apple’s cloud AI real

Confidential inference lets Apple run AFM 3 Cloud Pro on NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud while keeping PCC privacy promises.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 10, 2026

Engineering

What is MCP? The Model Context Protocol for data engineers

One open connector lets AI models call your tools and data instead of a custom integration per model. What MCP means for data engineers.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jun 10, 2026

Siri AI makes Apple’s platform bet depend on Google

Apple's rebuilt Siri AI gets its biggest model jump from Gemini: AFM 3 Cloud won 64.7 percent of text preference tests.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 10, 2026