7AM DataEngineering Sunrise - Thursday Digest Week 9, 2026
7AM DataEngineering NewsDigest - 7AM DataEngineering Sunrise - Thursday Digest Week 9, 2026
Compiled: 2026-02-26 09:49:51
1. The era of human web search is over: Nimble launches Agentic Search Platform for enterprises boasting 99% accuracy
Source: VentureBeat — Original
Web Search has already been disrupted by AI — just take a look at how readilyGoogleis presenting users with AI Overviews (summaries of search results) at the top of their results pages, howBing early on integrated OpenAI's GPT models, and howPerplexitycontinues to build on its own AI-driven web search platform and browsers.Nimble announced the launch of its Agentic Search Platform, a system designed to transform the public web into trusted, decision-grade data for AI systems and business workflows.
2. Anthropic says Claude Code transformed programming. Now Claude Cowork is coming for the rest of the enterprise.
Source: VentureBeat — Original
Anthropicopened its virtual "Briefing: Enterprise Agents" event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company's head of Americas, told viewers that the hype around enterprise AI agents in 2025 "turned out to be mostly premature," with many pilots failing to reach production. "It wasn't a failure of effort, it was a failure of approach, and it's something we heard directly from our customers," Jensen said.
3. Gong launches ‘Mission Andromeda’ with AI sales coaching, chatbot and open MCP connections to rivals
Source: VentureBeat — Original
Gong, the revenue intelligence company that has spent a decade turning recorded sales calls into data, today launched what it callsMission Andromeda— its most ambitious platform release to date, bundling a new AI-powered coaching product, a sales-focused chatbot, unified account management tools, and open interoperability with rival AI systems through theModel Context Protocol.The release arrives at a pivotal moment.
4. Visual imitation learning: Guidde trains AI agents on human 'expert video' instead of documentation
Source: VentureBeat — Original
For years, the "last mile" of digital transformation has been littered with forgotten PDFs and ignored training manuals.Organizations spend millions on sophisticated software like SAP or Salesforce, only for employees to struggle with basic navigation. Now, as the era of agentic AI arrives, companies face a double-edged sword: they must teach human employees to collaborate with AI, while simultaneously teaching AI agents to navigate the labyrinthine interfaces of the modern enterprise.
5. Anthropic targets core business systems with new Claude plug-ins
Source: Computerworld — Original
Anthropic is expanding its push into the enterprise market with a new set of “coworker” plug-ins designed to embed its Claude AI directly into tools used by investment bankers, HR teams, and engineers, signaling a shift from standalone assistants toward AI agents that operate inside core business workflows.
6. Aurora DSQL launches new support for Tortoise, Flyway, and Prisma
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Today we are announcing the release of Aurora DSQL integrations for popular ORM and database migration tools: an adapter for Tortoise (Python ORM), a dialect for Flyway (schema management tool), and CLI tools for Prisma (Node.js ORM). These integrations help developers use their preferred frameworks with Aurora DSQL while automatically handling IAM authentication and Aurora DSQL-specific compatibility requirements.The Aurora DSQL Adapter for Tortoise enables Python developers to build applications using Tortoise without writing custom authentication code.
7. Aurora DSQL launches new integrations for Visual Studio Code SQLTools and DBeaver
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Today we are announcing the release of the Aurora DSQL Driver for SQLTools and the Aurora DSQL Plugin for DBeaver Community Edition. These integrations allow customers to leverage popular database tools to run queries against Aurora DSQL clusters, explore database schemas, and manage their data. Both integrations simplify database connectivity by automatically handling IAM authentication and transparently managing access tokens, eliminating the need to write token generation code or manually supply IAM tokens.
8. 8 billion tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration — and cut costs by 90%
Source: VentureBeat — Original
When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain where large language model “super agents” direct smaller, underlying “worker” agents performing more concise, purpose-driven work.
9. Amazon EC2 R8a instances now available in the Europe (Ireland) region
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances.R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to R7a instances, making these instances ideal for latency sensitive workloads.
10. Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% better performance than M7i and M7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads.
11. Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Today, Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as aKiropower,Claude Code plugin, and agent skill in the openAgent Skillsformat, usable by any compatible agent. Developers can use this context with generative AI tools such as Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor to improve code accuracy, accelerate feature implementation, and reduce iteration time when adding Amazon Location-enabled capabilities to their applications.
12. Announcing new metal sizes for Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Today, AWS announces the general availability of metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances.
13. AI agent platforms could push down SaaS license costs, report argues
Source: Computerworld — Original
A suggestion by Anthropic that its Claude Code tool could be used to automate themodernization of an antediluvian programming language, COBOL, still an important sideline for IBM six decades after it was first deployed, sent IBM stock tumbling on Monday.The company suffered a 13.2% drop in its stock price, its biggest fall since the dot com period a quarter of a century ago.But IBM is not the only company suffering because of the AI hype.
14. Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Today, AWS announces Amazon Aurora DSQL Playground, a browser-based interactive environment that enables developers to explore and experiment with Aurora DSQL without requiring an AWS account. Developers can write and execute SQL queries, test schema designs, and experience Aurora DSQL's PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL capabilities directly in their browser with no setup or configuration required.
15. Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
Source: VentureBeat — Original
Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released theQwen3.5 Medium Model seriesconsisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which are available for commercial usage by enterprises and indie developers under the standard open source Apache 2.0 license:Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen3.5-27BDevelopers can download them now onHugging FaceandModelScope. A fourth model, Qwen3.
16. Anthropic just released a mobile version of Claude Code called Remote Control
Source: VentureBeat — Original
Claude Code has become increasingly popular in thefirst year since its launch, and especially in recent months, as developers andnon-technical users alikeflock to AI unicorn Anthropic's hit coding agent to create full applications and websites in days, on their own, that would've taken months and technical teams without. It's not a stretch to say it helped spur the "vibe coding" boom — using plain English instead of programming languages to write software.
17. Australia’s WiseTech to cut 2,000 jobs as AI renders manual coding obsolete
Source: Computerworld — Original
Australian logistics software firm WiseTech Global plans to eliminate around 2,000 jobs as it embeds artificial intelligence across its engineering and customer service operations, the company said Wednesday.The cuts, which will begin in the second half of FY26 and extend into FY27, will “reduce teams – initially product & development and customer service across the company, including e2open, by up to 50% in terms of headcount,” thecompany saidin a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange. Affected employees will not be redeployed elsewhere within the company, the statement added.
18. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications extends support for 4K resolution
Source: AWS What's New — Original
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports up to 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution on non-accelerated instance types and across all client connection modes. Previously, higher resolution monitors were limited to graphics-accelerated instances in WorkSpaces Applications classic mode. This update allows you to choose the appropriate instance type and provide a better end-user experience that aligns with your hardware investments.This new feature benefits customers by providing a consistent and high-quality streaming experience across instances regardless of hardware acceleration capabilities.
19. US orders diplomats to push back on data sovereignty
Source: Computerworld — Original
The US government has ordered its diplomats to actively oppose other countries’ attempts to introduce so-called data sovereignty laws that restrict how and where foreign technology companies can store and handle citizens’ data,according to Reuters.In an internal memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US describes such rules as a threat to free data flows, AI development, and cloud services. The Trump Administration believes that data localization could increase costs, create cybersecurity risks, and give governments greater control over information.
20. After OpenClaw backlash, Quill bets on security-by-design agentic AI
Source: Computerworld — Original
It’s clear users are hungry for agentic tools — but AI agents likeOpenClawhave shown how disastrous they can be when hastily rolled out or improperly executed.Quill, an AI startup, hopes to do better with what it calls “a chief of AI staff,” Quilliam. Rather than just transcribing meetings or logging Slack conversations, the agent plugs into collaboration tools to gather context and help users take action.Importantly, unlikeOpenClaw, Quill says it has adopted a policy of security by design: Data is private, stored locally, and users have complete control over what it does and where it goes.
This digest aggregates the top stories for data engineering and related domains.
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