Hyve Solutions Picks Nevada for Two AI Server Manufacturing Campuses
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Hyve Solutions, the server design and manufacturing arm of TD SYNNEX, announced on August 19, 2026 that it will build two advanced manufacturing campuses in Nevada (a 624,000-square-foot flagship site in Reno and a second facility in North Las Vegas) to expand U.S. production of the compute, storage, and networking systems that feed AI data […]
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SANY Ships First Autonomous Electric Mining Trucks to South America
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SANY Group shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on August 12, 2026, the company’s first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. The deployment packages the trucks with an intelligent dispatching system and lifecycle operations and maintenance services. It is SANY’s first deployment of its autonomous mining solution […]
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Skanska Signs $1.2B Contract to Build Four Data Centers in the Southeast USA
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Skanska has signed a contract with an existing client to build four new data centers in the southeast region of the USA, a deal worth USD 1.2 billion (about SEK 11.2 billion), the Swedish construction group announced on August 20, 2026, in a company release. The full value will be booked into Skanska’s US order […]
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Guideless Raises €1M Pre-Seed to Turn Software Workflows Into AI Training Guides
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Lithuanian AI startup Guideless has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding as it looks to rethink one of the less glamorous but persistent problems inside software-driven organizations: documenting how work actually gets done. The round was led by Superhero Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK VC and angel investors Thomas Plantenga, Group CEO of Vinted; Vytautas […]
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Binance Opens Its Trading Infrastructure to AI Agents With Agent OS
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Binance, the crypto exchange that reports more than 300 million registered users, on August 20, 2026 launched Agent OS, a developer platform that connects AI agents to its trading, payments, and wallet infrastructure, letting software built on tools like ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor read markets, manage portfolios, and place trades on users’ behalf. Agent […]
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Latin America reaches 10,000 electric buses milestone
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Electric buses in São Paulo, which has expanded its fleet to 1,759 vehicles, including 1,570 battery-electric buses and 189 trolleybuses. Latin American cities now have more than 10,000 electric buses in operation, marking a significant milestone in the region’s shift towards zero-emission public transport. According to data from E-Bus Radar, announced by C40 Cities and […]
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Grouse decline study expands into Scotland
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GWCT ecologist Jay Thompson taking samples of heather for nutrient analysis (image credit: GWCT). A long-running study investigating the causes of declining red grouse breeding success has expanded into Scotland, allowing researchers to compare the influence of weather, food, habitat, parasites and disease across British uplands, as the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) explains. […]
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Precast storm tanks join AMP8 rollout
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Severn Trent representatives visit Marshalls’ Pollington manufacturing facility following the company’s appointment to the £6 million storm tank framework. Water-management products manufacturer Marshalls Civils & Drainage has been appointed to a £6 million Severn Trent framework to supply precast concrete storm tanks as part of the water company’s AMP8 investment programme. The company is one […]
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Greener MOF cuts water treatment costs
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Mining is among the industries being targeted for potential applications of the heavy-metal-capturing MOF (pictured: water treatment at a copper mine and processing facility). A change in the way a metal-organic framework (MOF) is processed has substantially reduced its estimated energy use and production cost while retaining its ability to remove lead from contaminated water, […]
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Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather
The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño” by many. El Niño is the warm phase of a recurring climate pattern in the tropical Pacific that releases heat from the ocean into the atmosphere. This temporarily raises global temperatures and reshapes rainfall and […]
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Saulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger – Interview Series
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Saulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger, is an experienced technology and product leader whose career spans more than two decades across software engineering, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and product development. He began as a software engineer before co-founding a B2B SaaS company, where he helped build a transportation management platform from the ground up. He later […]
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Gemini in Chrome Opens to All U.S. Android Users as Auto Browse Goes Mobile
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Google opened Gemini in Chrome to all Android users in the United States on August 18, 2026, bringing its built-in browsing assistant to the full U.S. Android user base for the first time. Announced on The Keyword by Charmaine Dsilva, Director of Product Management for Chrome, the release also extends auto browse, the browser’s agentic […]
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OpenAI Puts $5M Behind AI Training and Tools for National Security Oversight Bodies
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OpenAI launched an initiative on August 18, 2026 to strengthen democratic oversight of government AI use in national security, committing $5 million in training, technical support, and OpenAI credits to government oversight bodies over the next year. The program targets the institutions already charged with overseeing national security work (the public institutions with established oversight […]
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WhiteFiber Proposes $250M Convertible Senior Notes to Fund Data Center Expansion
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WhiteFiber, the AI infrastructure and high-performance computing provider, said on August 18, 2026 that it intends to raise $250 million through a private placement of convertible senior notes due 2032, with the bulk of the money earmarked for building out new data center campuses. The company is also granting initial purchasers an option for up […]
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GLM-5.3 Scores 60 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Matching Kimi K3
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Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 has been evaluated by Artificial Analysis at 60 on its Intelligence Index, the independent evaluator reported on August 18, 2026, placing the Chinese lab’s newest reasoning model level with Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and three points behind Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, the current leader at 63. The score covers GLM-5.3 running at its […]
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IE5 motor efficiency class enters IEC standard
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Electric motors used in continuously operated equipment such as pumps, fans and compressors can account for substantial industrial energy consumption (pictured: WEG motor). The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has formally incorporated the IE5 efficiency class into its principal international standard for line-operated AC motors, establishing defined efficiency limits for a growing generation of ultra-high-efficiency equipment. […]
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Could geothermal roads help prevent potholes before they form?
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Construction underway outside Senate House, University of Surrey (image credit: University of Surrey). The UK’s pothole problem could one day be tackled from beneath the road surface, as University of Surrey researchers begin a new field trial of technology that collects heat from roads in summer, stores it underground and returns it in winter. The […]
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EU misses deadline for PPWR labelling rules
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The European Commission has missed a deadline to adopt detailed rules for harmonised recycling labels under the EU’s new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), prolonging uncertainty for businesses preparing to redesign packaging. The PPWR required the Commission to adopt implementing acts by 12 August setting out a harmonised label and specifications for labelling requirements […]