Water quality data informs management of River Medway flow
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The remote water quality monitor (image credit: Meteor Communications). Around 10 years of continuous water quality data has been generated as a result of a stipulation in a water abstraction licence on the River Medway in Kent (UK). Installed and managed by Meteor Communications, a network of water quality monitoring stations is being used by […]
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Smart rooftop rainwater systems could help cities tackle extreme heat
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Collecting rainwater from rooftops and using it to spray buildings during hot weather could help cities cut air conditioning use, lower urban temperatures and lessen the impact of heatwaves, according to new research from The University of Manchester. Cities around the world are facing rising temperatures, putting pressure on public health, infrastructure and energy systems. […]
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How digitalisation is reshaping the UK pump industry
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Wayne Rose is Chief Executive of the British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA). Wayne Rose explores how digital product information, connected technologies and AI are transforming the design, operation and maintenance of pumping systems. Digitalisation is rapidly reshaping the UK pump industry, moving it beyond traditional engineering into a more connected, data-driven future. As expectations around […]
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Fridge recycling capacity crisis leaves councils struggling to accept old appliances
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ADEPT has warned of an increased risk of fly tipping if the disruption continues (image used for illustration purposes). A shortage of specialist capacity for recycling discarded fridges and freezers is beginning to disrupt household waste services in parts of the UK, prompting local authority directors to call for government intervention to prevent stockpiling, fly […]
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Dyna Robotics Trains DYNA-2 on a Million Hours of Human Video, No Robot Data
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The claim matters because of where the field’s constraint sits. Generalist robot policies have been trained largely on teleoperated action data: humans physically guiding robots through tasks, hour by hour. That data is expensive and slow to collect, and it has capped how far robot foundation models can scale. DYNA-2’s bet is that the physical […]
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Global AI Closes First Debt Raise to Expand Sovereign AI Data Centers
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Global AI, a U.S. company that builds single-tenant, air-gapped data centers for governments and enterprises, has closed $441 million in financing, its first-ever debt raise. The senior secured credit facility was led and arranged by J.P. Morgan, with participation from a group of lenders the company did not name. The announcement lands the same week […]
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OpenAI Expands Daybreak With Two Tiers and a New Cybersecurity Model
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OpenAI is splitting its cybersecurity program into two access tiers and releasing a new purpose-trained model alongside them, the company announced on August 10, 2026. Daybreak Blue opens frontier general-purpose models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, to approved defenders for everyday security work, while Daybreak Red gates the new GPT-5.6-Cyber model behind tighter vetting for vulnerability research, […]
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With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
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Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren’t as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, since they don’t understand physics as well as they do pixels or text. To build an AI system that can reliably […]
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NVIDIA Mobilizes $500 Billion in Third-Party Capital to Finance AI Compute
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NVIDIA has signed memorandums of understanding with six of the largest pools of private capital in the world — Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR — to create independent compute financing platforms the company says will mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure over time, according to the company’s […]
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Just 14% of England’s surface waters achieve good ecological status: Latest EA figures
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Only 14.3% of England’s rivers, lakes and estuaries have achieved good ecological status in the latest Environment Agency classifications, prompting environmental groups to call for more comprehensive monitoring and stronger action on pollution.¹ The regulator published its latest Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations classifications on 6 August, providing the first comprehensive national update since […]
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HD Hyundai Lands 1,000 MW Engine Order to Power U.S. AI Data Centers
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HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a contract worth $673.8 million to supply 1,000 megawatts of power generation systems to U.S. data centers, the company announced on August 9, 2026. The buyer is Corban Energy Group, a U.S. energy infrastructure developer, and the equipment will feed data centers operated by what HD Hyundai describes as […]
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Edgify Raises $9M to Expand Edge AI Infrastructure for Physical Retail
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London-based Edgify has raised $9 million in Series A+ funding to expand its edge artificial intelligence platform, bringing the company’s total funding to $25 million. The round was backed by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners. Edgify plans to use the capital to accelerate deployments across physical retail while developing its platform into a broader […]
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Firebird Opens the CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
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Firebird, a U.S.-based AI cloud company, opened the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia on August 8, 2026: a facility in Hrazdan built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell PowerEdge servers, with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev, and U.S. chargé d’affaires David Allen attending the opening ceremony. The […]
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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, the AI Presentation Startup
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OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software for turning raw material into finished presentations, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the move in a note on the startup’s website. He did not disclose financial terms. NextSlide’s product converted prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable […]
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Firebird Takes Its AI Factory Platform Global With a 2-Gigawatt Pipeline
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Firebird opened its first AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, on August 8, 2026, and used the ceremony to lay out the rest of the map: a second market in Kazakhstan with 125 megawatts of secured capacity, an intended investment from NVIDIA, and a pipeline the company says will reach 2 gigawatts of AI infrastructure by […]
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A Big Win in Few Words: What to Glean from the Climate United Fund Decision
On August 4, 2026, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit handed down its long awaited en banc decision in an appeal of a preliminary injunction issued in Climate United Fund v. Citibank, the case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unlawful termination of $20 billion in federal funding awarded through the Greenhouse Gas […]
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Lemma Raises $2.3M Pre-Seed to Tackle Silent AI Agent Failures in Production
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AI agent reliability startup Lemma has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to build monitoring infrastructure designed to catch a particularly difficult class of problem: AI agents that appear to have completed a task successfully while quietly producing the wrong result. The round includes participation from Matrix, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, […]
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OpenAI Says Upcoming Astra Model May Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold
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OpenAI said on August 7, 2026 that internal evaluations of Astra, one of its upcoming models, show such strong agentic coding and cybersecurity performance that the company can no longer rule out the Critical cybersecurity capability level defined in its own Preparedness Framework. It is the first time OpenAI has attached that label’s possibility to […]