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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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