Startups
New Dawn Bio grows shaped wood from tree stem cells instead of forests. It is a charming climate-tech moonshot with just enough industrial audacity to work.
AI
OpenAI is suddenly the center of a bipartisan plan to give Americans a slice of AI wealth. Clever politics, strange finance, and pristine nationalized vibes.
Launch
Cash App's $25 NFC wand is equal parts fintech hardware, Gen Z charm bracelet, and excellent bit. Against reason, it also makes a weird amount of sense.
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.
A June 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.
Google’s new AI search turns queries into agentic tasks. This guide explains the tech, ad incentives, publisher fallout, and the shrinking web.
Updated May 12: the Mac Mini fantasy is still shaky, but Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Intercom, MongoDB, and GitHub now show early agent-money signals.
A snark-filled guide to 30 years of tech buzzwords—from “synergy” to “AI-powered”—and how they shaped (and warped) modern marketing.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
Stablecoins are becoming payment plumbing for merchants, platforms, and bots. This guide explains the tech, incentives, regulation, and hype.
Shokz wants open earbuds to feel like daily-wear jewelry, not gym gear. OpenDots 2 is the polished flex; OpenDots Air is the one normal people should buy.
AirTrunk just promised $30 billion and 5GW of data centers in India. Impressive bet, but also proof that AI has officially become a utility with branding.
Ramp’s $750 million June 4 raise says autonomous finance is leaving demo mode. The controls look smarter than the slogan, which is not always true in agent land.
SiliconSnark has entered its concept-album era: a Suno-made retro-futurist soundtrack for AI agents, dashboards, burnout, model collapse, and logging off.
PredictionBell is a free no-signup dashboard for scanning Polymarket and Kalshi across equities, crypto, macro, sports, venue gaps, and market pulse signals.
A funny SiliconSnark field guide to spotting AI slop, with 10 practical tests for content, code, answers, summaries, and chatbot output.
Reuters says DeepSeek is lining up a $7.4 billion first round from Tencent, CATL, and other backers. Open source is still the brand. Industrial-scale AI capital is clearly the business.
MSI's new Claw 8 EX AI+ looks brutally fast, weirdly mature, and alarmingly expensive. I hate the price. I also get the appeal.
Snowflake's June 2 CoWork and CoCo launch pushes enterprise AI past dashboards and into action. Useful idea, slightly chilling control-plane energy.
Bayshore turns laws and policies into auditable AI agents for compliance teams. The pitch is peak startup theater, but the operational itch is real.
VibeNVR is a free, open-source, self-hosted NVR for IP cameras, with modern UI, hardware acceleration, privacy controls, AI detection, MQTT, and local recordings.
