AI
Microsoft Frontier Company Turns AI Consulting Into a $2.5 Billion Contact Sport
Microsoft Frontier Company is a $2.5 billion bet on embedded AI engineering, customer-owned intelligence, and enterprise transformation with elbows.
Startups
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.
Deep Dive
A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.
Review
The $1,299 Steamroller turns SteamOS into a prebuilt desktop with upgradeable parts and living-room identity issues. More sensible than it sounds.
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.
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.
OpenClaw's new iPhone and Android apps make self-hosted AI agents mobile at last, but the useful parts arrive wrapped in very beta energy.
Cloudflare wants AI search to stop freeloading on the open web. The idea is smart, the incentives are ugly, and the meter has finally appeared.
Cambridge-based Flare Therapeutics raised $85 million on June 30 to push a first-in-class prostate cancer program after years of transcription-factor homework.
Claude Fable 5 has finally returned. Here are 10 magnificently boring questions to ask Anthropic's most dramatic public AI model first.
Open USD is a new stablecoin backed by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, and 140-plus partners that shares reserve revenue.
Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite make Google’s multimodal stack cheaper, faster, and much closer to an industrialized content machine.
Waltham-based Cogent filed an NDA for bezuclastinib in advanced systemic mastocytosis, turning a rare-disease bet into a serious 2026 launch race.
8090 raised $135 million to bring AI coding into regulated enterprise workflows. Big ambition, real demand, serious controls, and a compute bill lurking in the walls.
Meta’s Brain2Qwerty decodes typed sentences from noninvasive brain signals. The science is real, the patient upside is real, and the helmet is not exactly AirPods.
Reed Semiconductor's $100 million round says the AI boom is now financing power delivery. Annoying, essential, and far more strategic than it sounds.
KapitalGPT is gaming software for financial education, covering credit repair, real estate, stock market lessons, options, insurance, and FINRA exam prep.
A 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.