Hi!
Request: I’m low-key high-key planning a trip to China later this year for a [coming soon] special project and I’m looking to connect with folks who live/work there! Please reply here if that’s you. Also major longshot but I need to find a 1) babysitter and 2) videographer in both Shanghai and Shenzhen so if this is you or someone you know hit me up???
Love,
Deana
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.
ChatGPT can text your mom. ChatGPT can now read, search, and send iMessages for those that are willing to go all in and give it Full Disk Access permissions. If you text with a friend who has this set up, you can’t opt-out (and you wouldn’t necessarily know it’s on), and as a result many people are concerned by the news.
No one is more upset than the privacy guys.
Per Proton: “This feature essentially renders Apple's end-to-end encryption obsolete, because your messages are now sitting on OpenAI's servers in plaintext.”
It’s interesting to see the reaction here given what we’re already sharing with these companies, especially if you’re, say, a Gmail user. But I do think this speaks to a larger theme of distrust for OpenAI more broadly, and Sam Altman in particular, and to that end, thems the breaks.
Hinge addicts and the grindcore guys seem to love it, so do with that what you will. Personally I’d use it to respond to messages from my kid’s school, like this one that I received today.
okay!!!
Quick Hits.
Think of Outer Biosciences, the company co-founded by Lady Gaga’s fiance, as a skin recycling center. It takes human skin that would be discarded after plastic surgery and keeps it alive for weeks, in order to do testing for both cosmetic and medical ends. This is a pretty niche science R&D company, but because of the Gaga affiliation the story got picked up everywhere and the company is now getting raked over the coals on stan twitter. Though of course many are ‘gagged’ at how ‘Mother’ this is. You decide!
I’ve really enjoyed all the Beijing Robot Games coverage. If you haven’t been following along you can check out the highlight reel here.
Moderna closed up 177% on the first positive Phase 3 results for a personalized cancer vaccine.
This Dr. Dre interview went viral because he’s “pro-AI.” It truly pains me to give air to the false dichotomy of that framing, but I want us all to be aware of the ~~~ discourse. ~~~~
Pitbull announced his 14th studio album is called Pitcoin. A play, of course, on Bitcoin which was probably obvious to you but it wasn’t to me. “Unofficial” $Pitcoin Solana tokens have been flooding trading platforms like it’s 2022.
Can someone tell me the right answer to this interview question?
This is totally inappropriate for this newsletter, but I cannot stop watching this ‘gender nootch’ bit.
