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Today’s highlights
- Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban? — 2026-08-19
- HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carrying case. But the brand’s latest trick might be its riskiest: it’
- Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’ — 2026-08-19
- What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it’s because of “the singularity” but it’s really for a far more real and powerful reason.
- Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities — 2026-08-19
- The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company’s push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitability.
- OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections — 2026-08-19
- A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
- Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup — 2026-08-19
- SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
- Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’ — 2026-08-19
- After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have played in his career.
- Rillet raises $100M Series C at $1B valuation — 2 years after emerging from stealth — 2026-08-19
- AI-native account startup Rillet became a unicorn, led by Iconiq, after it doubled its ARR in the past three months, it said.
- Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman — 2026-08-19
- The actress’ firm Kinship Ventures is an investor in the company.