Topic: energy efficiency
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Tado’s New Thermostat Challenges Nest Dominance
Tado launched the second-generation Smart Thermostat X to capitalize on Google's Nest ecosystem instability, featuring a slimmer design and Matter-over-Thread connectivity for broader smart home compatibility. The device introduces multi-home management capabilities and TÜV-certified hydronic bal...
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Inertia Enterprises speeds up fusion fuel production
Inertia Enterprises has reduced fuel pellet production time from days to 2-3 hours by scaling up a process originally developed at the National Ignition Facility, clearing a key hurdle toward its commercial fusion plant. The startup achieved this by hiring industrial engineers, growing crystals i...
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Singapore launches first living-neuron data centre rack
The world's first biological data centre powered by living human neurons, using a 20-unit rack of CL1 neuron-powered computers, is now operational in Singapore, developed by NUS Medicine, DayOne, and Cortical Labs. The project’s core claim is energy efficiency for AI, but no official performance ...
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LG OLED breakthrough extends display lifespan
LG Display’s new FLiPP technique eliminates the traditional fine metal mask, using photolithography and UV light to pattern RGB pixels, enabling panels in virtually any size without the usual scaling and cost limitations. FLiPP panels are claimed to be 1.6 times brighter, last 2.4 times longer, a...
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Oracle to Deploy Quantinuum Quantum Computer in Its Data Center
Oracle and Quantinuum signed a multi-year deal to deploy Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center, with Oracle reselling access as a managed service; no financial terms, anchor customer, or launch date were disclosed. Placing Helios on Oracle's networ...
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Reservoir raises $8M for smarter water heaters that help the grid
Reservoir, a startup founded by Luke Winston-Almanzar and co-founders, has raised $8 million to launch smart water heaters that learn household usage patterns, heat water during low-demand periods, and operate up to five times more efficiently than gas models. The devices also detect plumbing lea...
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The final upgradeable PCs are being built now
The era of modular, user-upgradeable PCs is fading as soldered RAM and tightly integrated designs become the industry norm, driven by thinner chassis and cloud services. Engineering demands from AI workloads and high-bandwidth processors are forcing even repairability-focused companies like Frame...
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UK chip startup Olix triples valuation to $3.3bn
Olix, a two-year-old London startup founded by 25-year-old James Dacombe, raised $312 million in Series B funding, tripling its valuation to $3.3 billion, with backers including Arm, Hudson River Trading, and the UK government's Sovereign AI fund. The company's strategy is to replace general-purp...
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OpenAI launches GPT-Red as US heat pump adoption surges
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-Red, an AI system that automates the red-teaming process for safety evaluations, which traditionally required manual probing by human testers. Heat pump adoption in the US remains strong despite the expiration of a key federal tax credit, with sales doubling over the past ...
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Europe’s Air-Conditioning Revolution Is Coming
The International Energy Agency projects that two-thirds of households worldwide could own an air conditioner by 2050, as global temperatures and demand for cooling rapidly increase. Air-conditioning has become a political flashpoint in Europe, with right-wing figures like Marine Le Pen supportin...
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Nvidia partners with chip rival d-Matrix on inference
Nvidia is partnering with chip startup d-Matrix to create a joint AI system, integrating Nvidia's GPUs with d-Matrix's specialized inference chips for greater efficiency, with AI-cloud provider Parasail as its first customer. The partnership leverages the two phases of AI workloads: Nvidia's GPUs...
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FuriosaAI Brings Nvidia-Rival AI Chips to Europe
FuriosaAI has deployed its first RNGD AI accelerators in a Lisbon data center, targeting European enterprises seeking a more efficient, cost-effective alternative to Nvidia for local AI compute. The RNGD chip offers 512 teraFLOPS of FP8 performance at just 180 watts, enabling dense, air-cooled se...
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Luffy AI raises £8.1M for self-tuning electric motor tech
Luffy AI, a spinout from UK nuclear physicists, raised £8.1 million in Series A funding led by BGF to commercialize its "neuroplastic AI" for real-time industrial machinery control. The company's sparse neural networks are trained in simulation and then self-refine on physical hardware, enabling ...
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Gyre Energy raises $1.3M to cut cold store power costs at peak times
Gyre Energy has secured $1.3 million in funding to help cold storage facilities reduce energy costs during peak demand periods without compromising temperature integrity. The startup's software-based solution manages refrigeration power consumption to shift load away from expensive grid hours, re...
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Volvo EX30 Cross Country: A Great Little EV You Can’t Buy Soon
The Volvo EX30, a compact, efficient, and affordable electric crossover, is no longer available for purchase in the US after imports were halted due to tariffs on Chinese-made cars. Initially priced at $34,950, the EX30's low cost depended on Chinese manufacturing, but heavy tariffs imposed by th...
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Arcturus’ Nano-Metals Could Halve Grid Electrical Losses
Global copper demand is set to skyrocket due to the energy transition and data center growth, with a study suggesting more copper will be needed by 2050 than has been mined in all of human history, primarily to upgrade the aging and strained U.S. electrical grid. Startup Arcturus uses lasers to i...
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Unconventional AI debuts oscillator-based model slashing power use 1000x
Unconventional AI has released Un-0, an image generation model using a simulated oscillator-based architecture that performs comparably to leading diffusion models like Stable Diffusion, though it runs on software simulating hardware not yet physically built. The company's radically different com...
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil new chip for large-scale AI inference
OpenAI and Broadcom have partnered to create "Jalapeño", a custom ASIC chip designed specifically for large-scale AI inference in data centers, marking the start of a long-term development cycle. The chip was built in just nine months using insights from OpenAI’s research team and is tailored t...
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IBM claims first sub-1-nanometer chip technology
IBM announced a new chip architecture that packs roughly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized surface, nearly doubling transistor density compared to its previous generation. The technology, called the "world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology," is designed for AI data centers and...
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Nvidia’s hotter AI data center design cuts water usage
Nvidia claims its Rubin generation reference design for fully liquid-cooled data centers eliminates most power usage and nearly all water consumption, with water usage reduced from 2.6 million gallons per megawatt per year to near zero. The design runs AI servers at higher temperatures (up to 113...
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