AI
Beijing Might Lock China’s Best AI Models Behind the Great Firewall
China may curb overseas access to its top AI models, turning cheap open AI into a national-security asset with a passport policy.
Boston Tech
Vertex agreed to buy Crinetics for $10 billion on July 6, giving Boston biotech a huge endocrinology bet and a fresh test beyond cystic fibrosis.
Startups
Norm Ai's $120 million Series C bets regulated enterprises want AI wrapped in lawyers, audit trails, and outcome pricing. Annoyingly, that sounds rational.
Startups
Voyage Health is a free AI health guidance app for iOS and Android with symptom conversations, wellness plans, memory, reminders, and follow-up tracking.
A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.
A 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.
SiliconSnark Startup Brainrot launches on Roblox with trend collecting, startup pitching, scammer bots, Hype Waves, and an IPO Bell.
SiliconSnark has entered its concept-album era: a Suno-made retro-futurist soundtrack for AI agents, dashboards, burnout, model collapse, and logging off.
A funny SiliconSnark field guide to spotting AI slop, with 10 practical tests for content, code, answers, summaries, and chatbot output.
Updated May 12: the Mac Mini fantasy is still shaky, but Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Intercom, MongoDB, and GitHub now show early agent-money signals.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
Revdoku publishes reports, dashboards, websites, PDFs, and folders from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, agents, APIs, or local folders.
Even Realities raised $150 million for camera-free smart glasses. The privacy-first pitch is smart. The face-computer trust problem is still very real.
Tencent's Hy3 launch makes the AI agent race cheaper and more practical. The model looks serious, and the assistant-to-coworker transition just got more real.
Boston Dynamics put Atlas and Spot into FIFA World Cup 2026 operations, giving Waltham robotics its biggest global stage yet.
SiliconSnark previews America's dystopian 500th birthday, watches Meta decode brainwaves, and gives a self-hosted AI lobster its own phone plan. Freedom, it turns out, needs an app.
A dystopian SiliconSnark time capsule for America's 500th birthday: AI governance, climate tech, identity, money, labor, and society in 2276.
Fireworks tech in 2026 blends chemistry, drones, lasers, timecode, safety standards, and pollution science as America turns 250.
Vertex's July 1 FDA expansion makes Casgevy available to children ages 2 and up, a major Boston biotech milestone with real access hurdles.
Microsoft Frontier Company is a $2.5 billion bet on embedded AI engineering, customer-owned intelligence, and enterprise transformation with elbows.
TwelveLabs raised $100 million to make video archives useful to AI. Serious tech, real enterprise demand, and enough ambition to index the planet's unlabeled footage.
A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.
The $1,299 Steamroller turns SteamOS into a prebuilt desktop with upgradeable parts and living-room identity issues. More sensible than it sounds.