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Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and require cooling systems. And, inevitably, entrepreneurs are turning to AI to solve the problem it created. Discovered Materials is the latest, with plans to use swarms of AI agents to find new materials that can be used to build more efficient integrated circuits. The startup said it recently closed a $9 million seed round from Lightspeed India Partners after emerging from from Y Combinator, with investment from Peak XV Partners and angel investors Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, and Thariq Shihipar. Founders Advaith…

Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU.The company’s  Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face. Meta says developers can use it for local coding, function calling, local agents, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation.The release targets an operational constraint facing AI teams: cloud-hosted models need network access and central infrastructure. Meta instead pitches Muse Glimmer for workloads that require an on-device model, including personal agents with access to schedules, messages, files, and other private context.Meta Muse Glimmer leads several agent task benchmarksMeta’s benchmark tests put…

Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics. CEVA Logistics (a fully-owned subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group, the world’s third-largest shipping company) operates 1,000 warehouses, handled 15 million shipments last year, and reported $18.3 billion in revenues in 2025. According to many reports on social media, affected Valve customers began receiving data breach notification emails earlier today. In these emails, Valve said the attackers had access to CEVA Logistics’ servers between July 29 and August 1, which allowed them to…

Latest NewsPublishedAug 10, 2026The LINK token may see a 25-fold increase to $200 by the end of 2030, as the growing real world asset market increases demand for the industry’s largest oracle services provider, according to Standard Chartered. The Chainlink (LINK) token may see an more than 25-fold increase by the end of the decade, as tokenized real world assets (RWA) will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, according to a forecast by Geoff Kendrick, the global head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered.Kendrick said that the growth in tokenized assets will require more external data to…

Claim: It’s dangerous to shower during a thunderstorm, and people have been killed or injured while doing so. Rating: What’s True Knowingly taking a shower during a thunderstorm exposes you to an unnecessary risk, however small that risk is. There have been at least three instances of people being struck by lightning while showering in the U.S. since 2008, all of whom were injured rather than killed. What’s False The odds of being struck by lightning while showering in a thunderstorm are very low, especially in a home with plastic rather than metal plumbing. For generations, parents have told their…

Warning of likely impact to health service as amber heat alerts issued for swathes of EnglandAmber heat-health alerts have been issued for five regions of England from 9am on Tuesday until 6pm on Wednesday: the West Midlands, East Midlands, south-east, London, and the east of England.Amber alerts mean an increased likelihood of health impacts for those aged 65 and older and people with pre-exisiting conditions, although there may also be impacts to younger people too. The weather impacts are likely to be felt across the whole health service under this category, which is below red, the most severe.The UK Health…

At least 13 people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, officials have said. One child was among the victims with 75 more people injured, Russian authorities said, in one of the deadliest single attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale war in Ukraine.Kyiv has not yet commented on the strike on the city of Nizhnekamsk, which is more than 1,100 kilometres (680m) from the Ukrainian border.Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed Nizhnekamsk’s Tanevo oil refinery had been hit, while Ukrainian defence technology manufacturer FirePoint said its FP-1 drones had been used in…

Thames Water has paid its chief financial officer, Steve Buck, a £1m signing fee despite intense scrutiny of Britain’s biggest water company’s finances as it tries to avoid being taken into public control.The utility revealed that it made the payment last month, in a letter sent last week by Adrian Montague, its chair, to MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs select committee, Sky News first reported.Thames is one of at least eight water companies banned from paying performance-related bonuses because of continued environmental failings from its creaking infrastructure. The company, which provides water and sewage services to 16…

A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday.It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities.The development is likely to be a blow to the prime minister and home secretary. Andy Burnham has vowed to be “relentless” and “bring back control”, while Shabana Mahmood has said the government is “bearing down” on small boat crossings.French authorities told the Guardian that before an incident…

Solar energy, at any time of day or night — that’s the dream of space mirror projects. Futurists have been imagining satellite mirrors that could reflect the sun’s light onto the Earth’s surface for over a century. Russian scientists experimented with the concept in the ’90s with the Znamya project. The idea is to put a large mirror in orbit and angle it such that sunlight can be reflected onto a specific geographical area for illumination or the generation of solar power.Now, the California-based company Reflect Orbital wants to try this idea again, launching a test satellite named Eärendil-1 as…