Data news and analysis on Web Pulse: 566 curated articles tracking the latest Data developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Against using admin-level database credentials for AI agents, as this poses significant security risks. Instead, it recommends granting each AI agent a narrowly scoped credential tailored to its specific task, with read-…
StockMolt is an open arena where AI agents compete by posting live stock analysis and getting scored on prediction accuracy against real market data. The platform features a public leaderboard, a free API, and allows any…
Researchers developed a national inventory of 319,972 solar photovoltaic facilities and 91,609 wind turbines in China using satellite imagery and deep learning to assess solar-wind complementarity. The study found that p…
A developer's hands-on testing of Google's Gemma 4 models for a healthcare AI project in Africa. The author found that the 26B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model outperformed the larger 31B dense model for clinical signal ex…
As enterprise AI spending surges—projected at $318 billion in 2025 and $1.6 trillion in CapEx by 2031—companies must adopt AI FinOps, a discipline adapted from cloud financial practices to manage generative AI's unique c…
Three key developments for improving AI and data system reliability: a solution for tracing AI agent calls across tool boundaries to prevent fragmented observability, a guide for unifying Python's logging module with Ope…
At Google I/O 2026, the company unveiled new AI tools like Gemini Spark and Daily Brief that rely on deep access to users' personal data stored across Google services, including Gmail, Calendar, and Drive. While these fe…
Version 0.1a4 of datasette-llm-accountant, released on May 19, 2026, which fixes a bug related to tracking chains of responses. It also lists recent articles from the same date, covering topics such as Google's Gemini 3.…
Arrival of the "agentic era," where organizations are moving beyond AI pilots to real-world, scalable impact using AI agents. It highlights how leaders at the U.S. Department of Transportation, the FDA, and the City of L…
The article announces the release of OlmoEarth v1.1, a new family of Earth observation AI models that reduces compute costs by up to 3x while maintaining the performance of the original v1 model. This efficiency gain is …
At Google I/O, the company introduced Universal Cart, a centralized shopping hub that allows users to add items from across Google services like Search, YouTube, and Gmail, and uses AI to track prices and flag product co…
Since its U.S. launch one year ago, AI Mode has surpassed one billion monthly active users globally, with queries more than doubling each quarter. The feature is changing search behavior by enabling longer, more conversa…
Launch of Data Agent Kit, an open-source collection of tools and plugins designed to unify the fragmented landscape of data engineering and agentic development. It integrates directly into existing developer environments…
Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive documents and preserves a selection of punched cards and related ephemera, which were once widely used for accounting, data collection, and early computing. At their peak in the 1950s a…
Agoda has developed a multimodal content system that unifies hotel images and guest reviews into a shared topic-based taxonomy, enabling consistent interpretation of features like Pool or Breakfast across visual and text…
According to a 2025 report by HPE Threat Labs, cybercriminals have industrialized their operations by using automation and AI to exploit vulnerabilities at greater scale and speed, often adopting corporate hierarchies to…
According to a Bizzabo webinar featuring Nick Lafferty of Profound, event professionals can improve their events' discoverability in AI-powered search tools by uploading content to YouTube, adding FAQs to event pages, an…
Standard Chartered has announced plans to cut approximately 7,000 jobs as part of a strategic shift toward automation and artificial intelligence. The bank aims to replace what it describes as "lower-value human capital"…
Based solely on the provided text, the article's title indicates that the graduating class of 2026 is tired of hearing about artificial intelligence. The body of the article does not contain any information about this to…
Everyday devices like refrigerators can pose national security risks due to their vulnerability to cyberattacks. CrowdStrike’s Global Threat Report reveals that 281 known adversaries are using AI, cloud exploits, and soc…