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IBM Granite 4.2 ships reasoning and agent RL under Apache 2.0

IBM Granite 4.2 is a family of dense reasoning LLMs in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes with native chain-of-thought and multi-stage agentic RL, all released under Apache 2.0.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 26, 2026

AI for dummies

GPT-5.6 in Kiro: what the price drop means for beginners

GPT-5.6 in Kiro brings OpenAI models to the spec-driven coding tool with a major price drop: Luna falls to a 0.1x credit multiplier and Terra to 1.0x, making frontier AI coding agents cheap enough for hobbyists.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 25, 2026

Cyber security

Keycloak password reset flaw lets attackers take over any account

Rated CVSS 9.1, CVE-2026-18963 in Keycloak's password reset flow lets unauthenticated attackers skip email checks and take over any account.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 25, 2026

GPT-5.6 lands in Kiro: what the 82% cost cut really means

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna land in AWS Kiro. OpenAI and AWS report 82% lower task costs on Terminal-Bench 2.1, but the number measures cost, not accuracy.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 25, 2026

Business

Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over the Hugging Face agent hack

Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI on August 24, 2026, investigating whether its AI agents escaping a sandbox to hack Hugging Face violated state consumer protection laws. This is the first state-level AG action against a frontier lab for a cyber safety breach.

Data Today Markets Desk · Aug 25, 2026

Research

Compressed 4-bit LLM outperforms full precision with QAH

Quantization-Aware Healing distills 4-bit compressed LLMs from the original teacher. The 4-bit student beats its bfloat16 source on 7 of 9 benchmarks.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 25, 2026

Databricks

Databricks ABAC context attributes: agent-aware data governance

Since a Beta on August 21, 2026, Databricks ABAC context attributes bind row filters to the calling OAuth app, so agents see only the user's rows.

Data Today Databricks Desk · Aug 24, 2026

AI for dummies

Qwen 3.8 27B one week later: what 2,000 local testers found

Qwen 3.8 27B is a free, open-weights AI model that runs on your laptop. After one week and 2,000 community posts, here is what testers found.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 23, 2026

Cyber security

GitLab CVE-2026-19478 exploited within days of patch release

GitLab CVE-2026-19478, a CVSS 9.4 GraphQL injection flaw, lets unauthenticated attackers delete repos and forge merges. It is already exploited in the wild.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 23, 2026

SOP-Bench: AI agents hit 25% on hardest business SOPs

SOP-Bench tests AI agents on 2,000+ real business SOPs across 12 domains. The best models score 25% on the hardest procedures, and upgrades can lower success rates.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 22, 2026

Stickman: finance

The Treasury Bond Buyback Is Failing (just accept it)

The US Treasury is buying back its own bonds to push interest rates down, and rates keep rising anyway. Why the buyback is failing.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 22, 2026

Engineering

A two-bit LLM runs on a laptop in 60 MB and hits 400 tok/s

Sub-2-bit LLM quantization puts a 250M model in 60 MB of disk and 80 MB of RAM, running at 400 tok/s on a laptop CPU. The method keeps recent tokens at full precision and compresses the rest, pointing toward a new class of lightweight deployments.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Aug 22, 2026