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Today’s highlights
- Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive — 2026-08-22
- Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga’s partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside t
- Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M — 2026-08-22
- Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 million).
- Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine — 2026-08-21
- Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn’t take much to get past the restriction.
- Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf — 2026-08-21
- Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
- HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US — 2026-08-21
- I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC’s drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby steadycam with snap-on propeller wings that transform it into a drone - has already stopped taking US or
- TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit — 2026-08-21
- The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ
- How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours — 2026-08-21
- Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.
- Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button — 2026-08-21
- LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, “over a mil