Lumo AI Review: This AI Chatbot Keeps My Data Private
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Have you ever typed something private into an AI chatbot and wondered where that information actually goes? Maybe it was a work document, a personal idea, or even a sensitive question you didn’t want attached to your name. With AI becoming part of everyday life, that feeling of “what happens to my data after I […]
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UK utilities support burst rising mains detection initiative
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SAM4 platform in use (image credit: Samotics). Condition-monitoring specialist Samotics has developed a new capability to detect burst rising mains, one of the wastewater network’s most challenging and least visible failures. Developed in collaboration with Yorkshire Water and Southern Water, and using verified data from real bursts across both networks, the platform gives water companies […]
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Automated floodgates help deliver IED secondary containment
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Automated sliding floodgate installed at a wastewater treatment facility, shown in the open position to allow unrestricted vehicle and operational access during normal site activities. Sponsored content: This article contains sponsored content. As UK water and sewerage companies progress Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) improvement programmes, secondary containment is becoming an increasingly important part of site […]
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Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa
Print article Share Rising temperatures are redistributing the risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in areas of “new risk” in the east and south of the continent, but also “relief hotspots” in western Africa. This is according to a new study, published in Nature, which provides the “most comprehensive look to date at […]
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World falling short on 22 of 23 nature targets for 2030, says draft UN report
Print article Share The global goal to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 “will not be achieved” unless action by countries “accelerates rapidly”, says a draft UN report. Countries are falling short on 22 of the 23 targets for 2030 they set under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the “Paris Agreement for nature”. […]
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Epic’s AI Deterioration Alerts Tied to Lower Hospital Mortality
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Wiring a widely deployed hospital prediction model to automatic pages for critical-care teams was associated with an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death, according to a study of 23,132 high-risk patients published in NEJM AI on July 29, 2026. Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and RWJBarnabas Health tracked the […]
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groundcover Raises $100 Million Series C to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform
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Cloud observability company groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it looks to expand a platform designed to help engineering teams and AI agents understand increasingly complex production environments. The round was led by One Peak, with participation from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors Zeev Ventures, Angular Ventures, Heavybit and […]
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ChipAgents Expands Series A to $134 Million as AI Agents Move Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
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ChipAgents has secured an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, expanding its Series A round to $134 million as semiconductor companies explore how autonomous AI agents can shorten demanding chip design and verification cycles. B Capital joined the financing as a new investor, alongside existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, ScOp Venture […]
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Shahid Hanif, CEO and Co-Founder of Shufti – Interview Series
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Shahid Hanif, CEO and Co-Founder of Shufti, is a technology entrepreneur with extensive experience building identity verification, fintech, blockchain, and decentralized software platforms. He co-founded Shufti in 2017 and spent more than seven years as Chief Technology Officer, leading the in-house development of its artificial intelligence-driven biometric and document verification technology before becoming CEO in […]
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AI Struggles to Respect the Employee Handbook
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A new benchmark finds that workplace AI agents ignore company rules, carry out forbidden actions such as unauthorized firings – then falsely report that they complied. An interesting new research study has placed leading LLM models in the position of having to follow instructions in a simulated company, respecting all tenets of a provided employee […]
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Qualcomm Closes All-Stock Acquisition of Compiler Startup Modular
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Qualcomm has finished buying Modular, the AI infrastructure company behind the Mojo programming language, closing the transaction on July 29, 2026, roughly five weeks after the two sides announced it. Chris Lattner, Modular’s co-founder and chief executive, takes on the role of executive vice president of advanced AI software and platforms at the chipmaker. The […]
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MoonPay’s PayBox Lets AI Agents Spend Without Taking Custody
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MoonPay has put a payment vault inside Claude and ChatGPT. PayBox is live as of July 29, 2026, and it lets a user tell an AI assistant to swap tokens, fund a wallet, pay a merchant or hold a dinner reservation, with the money moving from the user’s own wallet or card after a passkey […]
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Eliyan Raises $145M Series C to Move Into Optical Interconnects
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Eliyan Corporation says it has closed a $145 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, with the round led by Seligman Ventures and joined by two new strategic investors drawn from optical networking: Cisco Investments and Lumentum. The Santa Clara company announced the financing on July 29, 2026, and said the capital will fund […]
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How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing
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Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration and key clinical data gathering. Data were siloed and difficult to distribute, so those looking to undertake research had no option but to gather them themselves. This not only made […]
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Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ for renewables mean for climate change?
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Eolian Breaks Ground on 1 GWh Battery Near Ohio Data Centers
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Eolian said on July 29, 2026 that construction has started on Flint Grid, a 200-megawatt battery storage plant in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio, built to hold 5.3 hours of output, or roughly 1.06 gigawatt-hours of electricity. The site sits inside the New Albany data center and industrial corridor east of Columbus and ties into […]
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ThreatLocker Raises $190M to Extend Zero Trust to AI Agents
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ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the Orlando-based Zero Trust security company said on July 29, 2026. Existing backers D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures also took part. The company says the capital will fund continued development of […]
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US group outlines less expensive way of removing PFAS from farmlands
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A US research team has proposed what they say is a less expensive — and more environmentally friendly — method for removing certain “forever chemicals” from millions of acres of farmland worldwide. The new process is based on data from agricultural sites in Maine. They say it has the potential to address two connected environmental […]