Good news from around Europe
At 14, Sasha Bagrov is building a safer marketplace for teenage odd jobs When I was a young teenager, I was in Girl Guides — essentially the Australian equivalent of Girl Scouts — and went to a school that strongly encouraged civic participation. So I duly knocked on strangers’ doors,
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive 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 the
Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M 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). Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/japanese-space-tech-startup-letara-expands-beyond-satellite-thrusters-with-16m/
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine 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. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/anthropics-opus-4-6-is-a-smut-machine/
Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/nvidia-partners-with-data-center-developer-cloverleaf/
How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours 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. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/how-ai-accounting-startup-rillet-raised-100m-and-became-a-unicorn-in-48-hours/