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Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

31 August 2026 at 05:18
George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged β€” in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gayborhood in your pocket" he's been promising since 2022.

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

30 August 2026 at 19:54
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else β€” but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

β€˜We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z

29 August 2026 at 20:36
Vijay Pande β€” who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC β€” talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

22 August 2026 at 04:31
Michael Polansky β€” better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker β€” has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.
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