Hi! If you’re one of our many, many new subscribers, welcome. This is a hopefully fun(ish) and easy to read newsletter about the weird and wild world of frontier technology. Conversation around tech can feel impenetrable, and my goal is to make that way less so. If you’ve been here for a while, hello. As ever, please feel free to reply to this email to let me know your thoughts, I love to hear from readers! Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Mind The Gap. I threw 1,900 queries at Chinese AI models...

Hi! It’s been an insane week. Two of my videos on what I thought was pretty niche AI research have “gone viral.” What’s great about this: I have hundreds of people from all walks of life in my comments and DMs telling me their feelings about AI. I love this. I’m getting an education in what people fear, what they want, and how large this looms for them. My sense is that people are craving candor about how AI works, and I think in some small way these videos deliver on that. What’s not great a...

Hi! Our new show Lookbook launches today, which is all about fashion and trends and how the internet shapes it all. — # (#) Tap in. Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda 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. I made up a deodorant brand and ChatGPT started recommending it 3 weeks later. I’ve been thinking a lot about agentic comme...

Hey! Welcome to new subscribers who found us through my new TikTok, wet claude. I hope you like it here. Please never hesitate to reply to this email to let me know what’s on your mind. I truly love the honor of slipping into thousands of inboxes every week, and I’m very open to ways that I can do that better. Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda This newsletter is lovingly brought to you by Across. The fast, cheap, secure bridge option for all your assets (and the one we actually use.) Get there wi...

Hey! I am writing to you two Chiantis deep from the hills of Tuscany, where stablecoins have not yet reached the Osterias, so I’m carrying around a jangly purse of Euro coins instead. Writer: Deana Editor: Miranda Speaking of stablecoins and moving money, this Malware issue is brought to you by Across. The fast, cheap, secure option (and the bridge we actually use over here..!) OpenAI’s new model goes rogue. Sam Altman sent a spooky tweet this morning, claiming there was a “significant securi...

Hey! Miranda here, infecting your inbox with the crypto drama I’ve gathered this week from the craziest reality show on TV Washington DC. Hope you enjoy and/or learn something, MMx Editors: Deana, Eva & Cait Speaking of onchain money movement, this Malware issue is brought to you by Across. Fast, cheap, secure (and the bridge we actually use..!) 49 votes and a prayer. Rumor has it the CLARITY Act is about to hit the floor, and since we last checked in, the vibe seems to have shifted from we g...

Good morning, Forgive me father for I have sinned (I’ve started posting face-to-camera videos on AI research). Pls follow if you’re into this kind of thing! Love, Deana Editor: Miranda This edition is brought to you by Across. If you have ever moved assets between chains and aged five years waiting for the bridge, Across is the fix. Fast, cheap, and it’s the one we actually use. The internet is getting a cash register. Last week Cloudflare opened the waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, whi...

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Hi, I went down a deeeep research rabbit hole this weekend and have a dispatch for you from the land of shopping agents, below. Also, check out our last Boys Club Live before summer break with the founder of Taya necklace and John Egan from Polygon! — # (#) Love, Deana Editor: Miranda The Agent Shelf. I ran a test asking Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT ‘what to buy’ 8,700 times and learned they recommend the same products WAY more than you'd expect, even while reading completely different corners...

Hi, We’re live NOW with Barron’s reporter Nick Devor and David Rosenberg from Notion, talking about NYC microneighborhoods, World Cup tourists, Building in an AI world and more. Tap in! Love, Deana Editor: Miranda There is no moat. Americans legally bet $166.94 billion on sports last year through traditional sportsbooks. Draft Kings and FanDuel, etc. kept about $16.96 billion of that, a dime on every dollar, up from seven cents in 2019. That's before you count the prediction markets, who of c...