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Audit then score turns AI ground truth into a process

Amazon says revising labels before grading lifted expert accuracy from 60.8 to 90.9 percent. Audit then score turns AI ground truth into a process.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 4, 2026

Research

Generalist agents hit data curation’s hard budget wall

Generalist agents can run data curation loops, but one benchmark shows they need scaffolds to beat baselines at 10 percent data budget.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 4, 2026

Business

Virtual power plants meet AI’s data center power wall

Google's 100 MW Voltus deal tests whether homes will flex for AI, using virtual power plants that coordinate flexible loads as capacity.

Data Today Markets Desk · Jun 4, 2026

Research

Multi-agent debate needs a boring data-cleaning cop

Multi-agent debate hurt generation by up to 15.5 points in data cleaning, but a grounded critic rescued detection and repair.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 3, 2026

Google AI opt out gives publishers a real lever now

Google AI opt out rules in the UK give publishers control over AI Search, but the hard choice is whether to trade traffic for leverage.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 3, 2026

Research

Unit distance proof moves AI past clever math demos

The unit distance proof gives OpenAI an AI math win: n^1.014 unit pairs, with humans still doing the verification work.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 3, 2026

Vibe coding is loud online and rare in real codebases

Vibe coding dominates AI discourse, but most professional developers still avoid it. The 2025 survey data shows why: the output is almost right too often.

Data Today AI Desk · Jun 2, 2026

Research

AI capability stopped slowing down. It sped up after 2024

Capability is improving about 15.5 ECI a year, and the rate rose after early 2024. The expected AI plateau never arrived.

Data Today AI Desk · May 31, 2026

Business

The bill for frontier AI is now measured in gigawatts

Frontier AI spending has shifted from clever algorithms to power and concrete. A single gigawatt data center now costs about 30 billion dollars to build.

Data Today Markets Desk · May 31, 2026

Engineering

Your agents are working too hard

Developers using AI agents report personal speed but little team-wide gain, and agents stay niche. Teaching agents when to stop is the fix.

Data Today Engineering Desk · May 30, 2026

Research

The model leaderboard is tightening to a photo finish

The gap between the best AI models and the rest is collapsing, and aggregate benchmark leaderboard scores now hide more than they reveal.

Data Today AI Desk · May 28, 2026

Engineering

AI chips give 24x more per dollar, if you can afford the sticker

AI chip performance per dollar improves about 37 percent a year, yet each new flagship costs more upfront. The GB300 delivers 24 times the value of a P100 at nine times the price.

Data Today Engineering Desk · May 28, 2026