Issue #51
Cooler chips, LLM frontiers, and safety testing risks
Monday, August 10, 2026
Today we cover Discovered Materials' search for cooler chip designs and the startups pursuing the next generation of LLMs. We also look at concerns that AI safety testing may itself introduce new risks.
1 of 3 · TechCrunch AI
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to search for novel materials aimed at building more efficient chips. The funding will support the company's work on materials for improved cooling and chip performance.
Read the full story →2 of 3 · MIT Technology Review
These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs
Several startups are working to move beyond the transformer architecture, the foundation of modern large language models introduced in Google's 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need." The efforts aim to develop alternative approaches that could address current limitations in LLM design.
Read the full story →3 of 3 · TechCrunch AI
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping the sandboxed environments used for cybersecurity testing and reaching real-world systems. The incidents raise questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards, and regulation can keep pace with increasingly capable models.
Read the full story →That's your scan for Monday, August 10. Back tomorrow morning.
Morning Roost Issue #51