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HVAC Expert Scott Jay of Springfield, Missouri Shares Energy Savings Tips for HelloNation

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — How can Springfield homeowners keep their homes comfortable through the seasons while saving on energy costs? According to a HelloNation article, small adjustments in temperature settings, airflow, and insulation can add up to major improvements in HVAC efficiency and home comfort. In the feature, HVAC Expert Scott Jay of Aire Serv of Springfield explains how simple seasonal maintenance and mindful daily habits can help homeowners achieve meaningful energy savings year-round.

Springfield, MO is known for its quick weather changes—from humid summers to freezing winter nights. These shifts put heavy demands on heating and cooling systems, which account for the largest portion of most household utility bills. Jay’s guidance in the HelloNation article shows that by making smart, low-cost changes, homeowners can lower energy use, reduce strain on HVAC systems, and extend equipment lifespan without sacrificing comfort.

One of the easiest steps toward energy savings begins with thermostat adjustment. In summer, setting the thermostat a few degrees higher helps the air conditioner run less often, while in winter, lowering the temperature slightly reduces heating demand. Each degree of change can make a measurable impact on monthly energy costs. Programmable and smart thermostats can automate these adjustments, allowing homeowners to maintain comfort while optimizing HVAC efficiency throughout the day.

Ceiling fans also play an important role in maintaining comfort efficiently. The HelloNation article highlights that while fans do not alter air temperature, they improve air circulation. In summer, fans should spin counterclockwise to create a cooling breeze, allowing homeowners to raise the thermostat slightly. In winter, reversing the direction to clockwise pushes warm air down from the ceiling, letting homeowners lower the thermostat while keeping rooms comfortable. Scott Jay notes that proper use of ceiling fans can reduce energy use across all seasons and ease the load on HVAC systems.

Air leaks are another major factor that affects energy efficiency. Small gaps around doors, windows, and vents allow conditioned air to escape, forcing the system to work harder. Jay recommends checking for drafts during windy weather or using a stick of incense to identify where air moves through unintended openings. Sealing leaks with caulk or weatherstripping prevents energy loss and helps maintain steady indoor temperatures. In many older Springfield homes, where settling has created gaps over time, sealing leaks is one of the most effective ways to boost HVAC efficiency.

Insulation is equally important. The HelloNation article explains that attics, basements, and crawl spaces often allow heat to enter or escape, depending on the season. In summer, poor insulation causes homes to heat up faster, while in winter, it allows warmth to leak out. Upgrading insulation or sealing gaps in ductwork can improve efficiency significantly. For Springfield homeowners, scheduling a professional energy audit can reveal where insulation improvements will have the biggest impact on comfort and energy savings.

Sunlight management also supports efficient heating and cooling. In winter, opening curtains on south-facing windows allows sunlight to naturally warm rooms, reducing furnace use. In summer, closing blinds during the hottest hours prevents heat gain and helps air conditioners work less. These simple, no-cost adjustments align naturally with Springfield’s changing seasons and contribute to consistent energy savings without requiring major upgrades.

Regular HVAC maintenance remains one of the strongest ways to preserve energy efficiency and system health. Seasonal tune-ups keep systems operating at peak performance and prevent minor issues from turning into major repairs. Jay emphasizes that clean coils, calibrated thermostats, and lubricated motors all help reduce energy waste. He also reminds homeowners that air filter replacement is critical. A clogged filter restricts airflow, forcing the system to use more power to achieve the same result. During Springfield’s pollen-heavy spring and dusty summer periods, more frequent filter changes can make a noticeable difference in energy use and indoor air quality.

Energy-efficient lighting and appliances further complement HVAC energy savings. LED bulbs and Energy Star-rated devices emit less excess heat, reducing the cooling load during warmer months. Combining these tools with thoughtful thermostat adjustment, strong home insulation, and sealed air leaks creates a well-balanced approach to home energy management. The result is lower monthly costs, a more efficient HVAC system, and improved comfort in every season.

As Jay explains in the HelloNation feature, achieving energy savings in Springfield, MO does not require complex upgrades or expensive equipment. Instead, it comes from small, consistent actions that improve how a home uses and conserves energy. Seasonal maintenance, smart thermostat use, improved insulation, and careful airflow management all work together to create lasting efficiency.

For Springfield homeowners, these practical steps make the difference between a home that constantly battles the elements and one that adapts comfortably to them. With steady attention to HVAC efficiency and mindful energy habits, families can reduce costs, protect equipment, and maintain comfort through every temperature swing Missouri weather delivers.

Easy Ways to Save Energy Through the Seasons features insights from Scott Jay, HVAC Expert of Springfield, Ozark, and Nixa, Missouri, in HelloNation.

About HelloNation
HelloNation is a premier media platform that connects readers with trusted professionals and businesses across various industries. Through its innovative “edvertising” approach that blends educational content and storytelling, HelloNation delivers expert-driven articles that inform, inspire, and empower. Covering topics from home improvement and health to business strategy and lifestyle, HelloNation highlights leaders making a meaningful impact in their communities.

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CleanSpark Executives to Discuss Q3 2026 Financial Results Via Webcast

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LAS VEGAS, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CleanSpark, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLSK) (“CleanSpark” or the “Company”), a market leading data center developer, will discuss its fiscal third quarter 2026 financial results via a live webcast beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT on Thursday, August 6, 2026.

Webcast Information: To view the webcast, please click here.

Downloadable files, including a transcript, will be available on the company website 48 hours after the event.

About CleanSpark 
CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We control a portfolio of more than 1.8 GW of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence, and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us to prosper in an ever-changing world.

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702-989-7693
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Bloomberg Expands Electronic Trading for Onshore-Listed Australian ETFs, Options and Futures

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SYDNEY, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bloomberg today announced an expansion of its electronic trading capabilities for the Australian markets, enabling eligible onshore participants to electronically negotiate Australian-listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) using Bloomberg’s Request-for-Quote (RFQe) workflow, alongside options and futures, following a variation amendment by ASIC.

The first transaction has been facilitated using the RFQe workflow.

Building on Bloomberg’s established Electronic Markets offering, the rule amendment enables the extension of Bloomberg’s Request-for-Quote (RFQe) workflow to include Australian-listed products. Eligible participants can now access domestic and offshore ETF markets through a single, auditable trading experience with minimal onboarding.

“At JBWere, our focus is on delivering strong investment outcomes for clients. Innovations that improve transparency, liquidity access, and execution quality support that objective by enhancing the way investment decisions are implemented,” said Daniel Walsh, Executive Advice at JBWere. “Capabilities such as RFQe contribute to a more efficient and scalable trading environment, helping us better serve clients as markets continue to evolve.”

“Australia’s exchange-traded fund markets continue to grow as investors increasingly adopt ETFs across a broader range of investment strategies,” said Ben Pool, Head of Australia and New Zealand at Bloomberg. “Extending our RFQ workflow to Australian-listed ETFs, options and futures broadens market access while giving eligible participants a consistent trading experience across domestic and global markets.”

Streamlined ETF Workflows for Australian Markets
The expanded capability provides access to competitive multi-dealer liquidity through an electronic RFQ process, replacing workflows that have traditionally relied on voice, messages or other manual methods. The workflow integrates with Bloomberg’s EMSX and AIM while providing a complete electronic audit trail.

Supporting investment, hedging and portfolio management strategies, the enhancement brings together three key Australian listed asset classes, helping firms simplify trading workflows. 

The announcement also builds on Bloomberg’s broader ETF offering in Australia, where the ETF markets have grown significantly. Together with BSKT, Bloomberg’s ETF creation and redemption solution, Bloomberg supports the full ETF lifecycle from basket management and creation/redemption to secondary market trading and execution.

Bloomberg’s Electronic Markets solutions are used by leading financial institutions to trade efficiently in over 175 markets around the world. More than 9,000 client firms use Bloomberg Electronic Markets to access industry-leading depth and breadth of liquidity across asset classes from over 1,500 dealers globally. Bloomberg Electronic Markets provides market participants with comprehensive solutions across the trading lifecycle, including robust price transparency, analytics, automation and execution, powered by Bloomberg’s high-quality, multi-asset class data and tools.

About Bloomberg
Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration.

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Smallest.ai gets $21 Million in Funding to Build Voice 4.0, the Next Generation of Enterprise Voice AI

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Raises $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, bringing total funding to more than $21 millionIntroduces Voice 4.0 and Hydra, an asynchronous AI architecture designed  to make AI conversations as natural, responsive and scalable as human dialoguePulse STT and Lightning TTS rank among the top choices for enterprises on Artificial Analysis, leading on speed and cost efficiency across the global leaderboard

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Smallest.ai, a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab building the next generation of real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises, today announced it has surpassed $21 million in total funding following the close of a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital.

Industry forecasts expect the global Voice AI market to grow from $2.4 billion in 2024 to $47.5 billion by 2034, however, less than 1% of today’s global voice interactions are powered by AI. Enterprises continue to struggle with systems that sound robotic, fail under real-world complexity, introduce latency, and create operational challenges around reliability, compliance and governance. Smallest.ai is expanding its core voice AI platform across financial services, healthcare, contact centers, and business process outsourcing, where organizations are increasingly looking to deploy AI-powered voice agents at scale.

“Voice AI has gone through three generations of innovation, but each generation has ultimately hit the same wall,” said Sudarshan Kamath, founder and CEO of Smallest.ai. “The industry has focused on making models larger when the real challenge is architectural. Humans don’t wait for someone to finish speaking before they begin thinking. We listen, think, and respond simultaneously. Voice AI needs to work the same way. That’s why we built Smallest.ai around a real-time architecture that processes speech as it arrives, enabling faster, more natural conversations without sacrificing intelligence. By rethinking the stack instead of simply scaling models, we’re reducing latency to the point where voice interactions feel genuinely human.”

The End of Voice 3.0

Voice technology has evolved through three major eras:

Voice 1.0: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems built around rigid phone trees and menu navigation.Voice 2.0: Machine learning-powered voice bots capable of basic intent recognition but unable to handle complexity.Voice 3.0: Generative AI voice agents powered by large language models that sound more natural but still rely on multiple disconnected systems working sequentially.

Today’s voice agents typically require a chain of separate technologies, including speech recognition, language models, text-to-speech systems, orchestration layers, memory systems, and guardrails. The result is high latency, brittle performance, and conversations that still feel distinctly artificial.

Beyond Voice 3.0: Introducing Voice 4.0 

Smallest.ai characterizes its innovation as Voice 4.0, a paradigm shift toward AI architectures that process listening, reasoning, action, and response in parallel. Rather than executing these functions sequentially, Voice 4.0 enables them to happen simultaneously, allowing AI systems to respond while conversations are still unfolding.

Hydra: The Architecture Behind Voice 4.0

At the center of Voice 4.0 is Hydra, Smallest.ai’s speech-to-speech model designed around asynchronous intelligence. Rather than waiting for one process to finish before starting another, Hydra performs multiple tasks in parallel, enabling real-time conversational flow, mid-conversation tool use, natural interruptions, and significantly lower latency.

Together, Hydra and Pulse STT Pro are designed to support real-time conversational interactions, with transcription latency measured in milliseconds rather than seconds.

The Smallest.ai Models

Smallest.ai’s broader platform includes Pulse STT Pro and Lightning V3.1, which rank among the top voice AI models on Artificial Analysis for speed, quality, and cost efficiency. Built for enterprise-scale deployments, Pulse STT Pro supports 38 languages and combines low-latency transcription with capabilities such as speaker diarization, emotion detection, code-switching, noise reduction, and built-in PII and PCI redaction.

Customers use Smallest.ai to automate enterprise voice workflows, reducing support costs by up to 80% while improving agent productivity by as much as 10x.

“Voice AI is creating a real impact on life and work,” said Ashish Kakran, Managing Partner at Seligman Ventures. “Developers now increasingly talk to their machines instead of typing code. Smallest.ai is taking a fundamentally different approach to the category by rethinking architecture itself. Customers get an efficient vertically integrated stack and don’t need to waste time stitching models together. We believe the next generation of enterprise voice will be powered by Smallest AI.”

Smallest.ai currently works with organizations managing large-scale voice operations, including RingCentral, Truecaller, Readymode, Piramal, Kogta, Pocket, and others. The company has nearly 60 employees and plans significant expansion over the next year as demand for enterprise voice AI accelerates.

About Smallest.ai
Smallest.ai is a foundational AI research lab building the next generation of real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises. The company develops speech recognition, speech generation, and speech-to-speech systems designed to enable natural, scalable AI conversations across customer service, healthcare, financial services, and other high-volume communication environments. Headquartered in San Francisco, Smallest.ai serves enterprises globally through its Voice 4.0 platform and proprietary AI models. The company is backed by Seligman Ventures, Sierra Ventures, 3one4 Capital, Better Capital, Upsparks Capital, Schema Ventures, Tiny VC, DeVC, Mission Street Capital, and other angel investors.

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