After launching its $499 AI-powered CameraJet toothbrush earlier this month, things haven’t been running smoothly for Dyson: the company was forced to withdraw the impressive (and impressively expensive) model from certain markets, as customers across the world took to social media to complain about various faults. 

Execs were initially tight-lipped about what exactly was going wrong with the CameraJet — which was trained on 470,000 dental images, has a 100,000-pixel macro lens, and jets short bursts of water into affected areas of the mouth like a water flosser — but have now told Bloomberg, presumably through gritted teeth, that “water seepage” was behind the malfunctioning early batch of brushes.

Stocks were mixed on Wednesday. 

There are songs that become so ubiquitous in modern life that they pass unchallenged into the modern music canon and wider public consciousness; trotted out for mass singalongs when the occasion demands: “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” before we’ve even taken Halloween decorations down; “Seven Nation Army,” at literally any sporting event anywhere in the world; “Wonderwall,” when the party has taken one too many wrong turns and the inevitable guitar is wielded. 

Although it’s now 24 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” most people agree, is not one of those songs. The song’s undeniable hook and the country-pop songstress’s sultry vocals aside, vast swaths of the music-listening public are queuing up to announce, sometimes proudly, that they’ve never heard the longest-reigning number one of all time.

That might have something to do with how a lot of us have started finding new music.

Billboard staff writer Kyle Denis says he isn’t surprised by the idea that there’s a song at the top of the charts for six months that a lot of people have never knowingly heard, as mainstream culture splinters into “incredibly optimized and hyper-individualized algorithmic silos and digital echo chambers.”

That theory bears out in the responses to a YouGov survey conducted and published earlier this month. According to the poll, 59% of US adults who listen to music more than they did last year discover new music through streaming service recommendations, while 52% are finding songs via social media and music blogs. That marks a clear shift toward personal methods of picking up new music of late, as more traditional methods of song discovery like listening to the radio, music TV channels, and recommendations from family and friends slip down the list.

As the monoculture recedes further into the rearview mirror with algorithms and for-you pages corroding the shared cultural experience that radio stations and mainstream television once helped to cultivate, it’s little wonder that we live in a world where a lot of Americans couldn’t begin to hum the melody of (on paper) one of the biggest songs in modern music. 

Whether or not you had an active choice in “Choosin’ Texas” becoming the song of 2026, you should probably get comfortable with the idea of megahits you’ve never heard before. 

— Thomas Jones

Not content with being far and away the biggest coffee house chain in China on store count and sales, and having recently grown to become the second largest in Singapore despite only launching there three years ago, Luckin Coffee is now eyeing the Middle East market, its chairman told CNBC this week.

The company, which has positively crushed Starbucks in China owing to the American chain’s struggles in the region through the years, opened its first two stores in the US last June and has since opened a further 20, per its US locations page.

Despite being recorded in August 1994 and released in October that year, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — now the second longest-reigning number one in Billboard Hot 100 history — only hit the top spot 25 years later, in the winter of 2019.

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