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Across just made itself agent-readable. 8 skill files covering swaps, embedded crosschain actions, deposit tracking, and security, plus an MCP endpoint so your agent can actually execute, not just read about it.
Open Wide. Dyson launched a new $500 toothbrush yesterday, and it’s getting a lot of headlines because it has i) AI and ii) a camera inside of it.
The specs: a 100k-pixel macro lens capturing 28 images per second, with AI trained on 470,000 dental images to find the gaps between your teeth and fire a jetstream of mouthwash into them.
I’m excited about this story because it gives me the opportunity to do two of my favorite things:
1) Complain about Big Dentist
2) Be a Certified Dyson Hater™
Buy me 2-3 margaritas, and I’ll tell you all about one of my most beloved conspiracy theories: private equity-owned dentist offices are pushing unnecessary root canals on people. AND a new peer-reviewed study basically vindicates me. Researchers tracked dental offices acquired by PE firms between 2015 and 2021 and found that after acquisition, the practices shifted away from diagnostic and preventive work and toward “higher-reimbursement restorative, specialty, and surgical procedures.” Few things really ‘piss me off’ but this is no doubt one of them.
That aside, the glaring issue here is that this toothbrush’s camera can’t see through foaming toothpaste. Dyson had to invent a non-foaming paste and a low-foam rinse, which they’ll now happily sell you forever. So just know that anyone who buys this is also probably buying a subscription to toothpaste.
Regardless, I have loved ones who will probably want this for Christmas, and I’m sure it will make the Dyson family (privately owned) a lot of money. And on that note, I think I need to go do some shadow work around why this story has me so agitated.
Quick Hits.
‘Live forever guy’ Bryan Johnson has logged 14 million data points on his girlfriend Kate's menstrual cycle this month, with a "techno tampon" in the mix to top things off. The man is monitoring the situation.
The MrBeast book is bombing in pre-sales.
The new Apple CEO went all lowercase for his first post. 40 million views and counting, wowza.
Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9B, which would hand basketball legend Kevin Durant an estimated 467x return on a seed check he wrote in 2018.
Venture investor Doug Leone got a root canal with zero Novocaine to ‘see if he was a badass’ and talked about it on a podcast (“ok now do an IUD”)! To me, this is evidence of how things can get weird when you have too much money.
A 'HOOTERS' origin movie is in the works, as is a “Bitcoin” movie starring Gal Gadot. Okay!!!!!!!!!
Hand-drawn nudes from the 70s that we sent into space went viral this week. Some really incredible quote tweets and replies in that thread that I’ll let you discover for yourself.
