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The SiliconSnark robot presides over an alliance meeting between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, holding a gavel at a dramatic conference table.

This Week in Snark: The AI Supervillain Alliance, Meta Kills Its Llama, and Eight Cents to Watch the Watchers

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic joined forces this week — against a common enemy who learned everything from them. Meanwhile, Meta quietly buried its open-source identity.

SiliconSnark's robot in a cluttered tax office reacting to Juno's AI tax-prep software and new seed funding.

Juno Raised $12 Million to Fix Tax Season—and Somehow Made It Sympathetic

SiliconSnark’s robot stands in an enterprise control room as a chaotic phone farm is replaced by cloud-phone dashboards.

GeeLark Wants to Replace Your Device Farm — Which Is Both Useful and Slightly Cursed

SiliconSnark robot in an auto factory surrounded by humanoid robots, assembly lines, dashboards, and executives.

Humanoid Robots, Explained: Why Factories, Startups, and Tech Billionaires Suddenly Want a Mechanical Workforce

SiliconSnark robot inspects a glossy AI data center leasing office where GPU racks are marketed like luxury apartments and “Claude capacity” is rented on multi-year contracts.

CoreWeave Rents Anthropic More GPUs — The Cloud Is Now a Landlord

The SiliconSnark robot grins beside OpenNOW cloud-gaming controls while shooing away an overly fancy official client kiosk.

OpenNOW Rebuilt GeForce NOW in Public — and Somehow Made Cloud Gaming Less Annoying

SiliconSnark’s robot presents Google’s synced Gemini and NotebookLM notebook in a cluttered home office.

Google Gave Gemini a Notebook. I Hate How Sensible That Is

AI

SiliconSnark robot in an auto factory surrounded by humanoid robots, assembly lines, dashboards, and executives.

Humanoid Robots, Explained: Why Factories, Startups, and Tech Billionaires Suddenly Want a Mechanical Workforce

Humanoid robots are leaving demos for factories and warehouses. This guide explains the tech, labor incentives, competition, safety issues, and hype.

Bathroom fan: Our fan in the 1/2 bathroom is broken. We'll buy a replacement soon and would love help installing it.

Anthropic Clarifies That Open Source Is Still Free Emotionally

The SiliconSnark robot monitors a wall of screens showing autonomous AI agents at work

For Eight Cents an Hour, Anthropic Will Babysit Your AI Agents — With More AI

A tiny desk robot charges a phone and manages a cluttered workstation while SiliconSnark’s mascot watches skeptically.

Loona Deskmate Wants to Be Your Desk Buddy — and Your 100W Charger

SiliconSnark’s robot watches AI-powered restaurant menus and delivery dashboards constantly optimize during a major sports event.

Deliverect Wants Autonomous Restaurant Menus — Because Apparently the Fries Need a Revenue Strategy

ARM Started Making Its Own Chips—So Naturally, Someone Just Raised $400M to Sell Everyone Else the Blueprints

SiliconSnark's robot dictating into an iPhone while cleaned-up words float above a pile of discarded filler words.

Review: Google's New Dictation App Is Suspiciously Good. Slightly Offensive to Keyboards

Launch

SiliconSnark’s robot stands in an enterprise control room as a chaotic phone farm is replaced by cloud-phone dashboards.

GeeLark Wants to Replace Your Device Farm — Which Is Both Useful and Slightly Cursed

GeeLark turns racks of phones into cloud-managed account labor. It is efficient, a little suspicious, and annoyingly plausible for teams that scale by spreadsheet.

The SiliconSnark robot grins beside OpenNOW cloud-gaming controls while shooing away an overly fancy official client kiosk.

OpenNOW Rebuilt GeForce NOW in Public — and Somehow Made Cloud Gaming Less Annoying

SiliconSnark’s robot presents Google’s synced Gemini and NotebookLM notebook in a cluttered home office.

Google Gave Gemini a Notebook. I Hate How Sensible That Is

SiliconSnark's robot reacts to Insta360's rear-camera selfie screen during a cafe demo.

Insta360's Snap Selfie Screen Fixes Phone Vanity — and Invents a New One

A tiny desk robot charges a phone and manages a cluttered workstation while SiliconSnark’s mascot watches skeptically.

Loona Deskmate Wants to Be Your Desk Buddy — and Your 100W Charger

Inside a gleaming but slightly chaotic pilot fuel plant at golden hour featuring the SiliconSnark robot.

Sora Fuel Raised $14.6 Million to Bottle the Sky. Honestly, Respect

SiliconSnark’s robot watches AI-powered restaurant menus and delivery dashboards constantly optimize during a major sports event.

Deliverect Wants Autonomous Restaurant Menus — Because Apparently the Fries Need a Revenue Strategy

Deals

SiliconSnark's robot in a cluttered tax office reacting to Juno's AI tax-prep software and new seed funding.

Juno Raised $12 Million to Fix Tax Season—and Somehow Made It Sympathetic

Juno wants to rescue accountants from PDF purgatory with AI. Against all odds, the week's most charming seed round is about tax prep.

SiliconSnark's robot in a school cafeteria turned trading floor, watching students trade stakes in viral videos.

Giggles Raised a Pre-Seed for Tradable Videos — TikTok Meets the Trading Floor

Inside a gleaming but slightly chaotic pilot fuel plant at golden hour featuring the SiliconSnark robot.

Sora Fuel Raised $14.6 Million to Bottle the Sky. Honestly, Respect

ARM Started Making Its Own Chips—So Naturally, Someone Just Raised $400M to Sell Everyone Else the Blueprints

The SiliconSnark robot stands stunned on a tarmac as a hypersonic drone blasts overhead, spilling its coffee, with a sign behind it reading "A Dozen or So Per Year."

This Atlanta Startup Just Raised $350M to Build Autonomous Hypersonic Warplanes. Also, a Nicer Way to Get to Paris.

A Startup Called XFX Is Fixing the Part of Crypto That Still Feels Like a Wire Transfer. Root for Them.

A Startup Called XFX Is Fixing the Part of Crypto That Still Feels Like a Wire Transfer. Root for Them.

SiliconSnark robot sitting in a pile of money

Yann LeCun Called LLMs 'Complete Bullshit,' Then Raised $1 Billion in Seed Money. We're Rooting for Him.

This Week in Snark

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This Week in Snark: The AI Supervillain Alliance, Meta Kills Its Llama, and Eight Cents to Watch the Watchers

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This Week in Snark: SoftBank's Missing $10 Billion, Apple's Siri Surrender, and Sam Altman Definitely Has It Under Control

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OpenAI

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Just Formed an Alliance — The Enemy Learned Everything From Them

The Definitive 2026 Guide to AI's GPTs and Friends

Sam Altman Bought His Favorite Tech Show. The Editorial Independence Is Definitely Going to Be Fine.

SoftBank Borrowed $40 Billion to Invest $30 Billion in OpenAI, and I Have So Many Questions

Sam Altman Delegated AI Safety to Go Build Datacenters. The Next Model Is Called Spud.

Guides

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Humanoid Robots, Explained: Why Factories, Startups, and Tech Billionaires Suddenly Want a Mechanical Workforce

Deep Dive: The AI Assistant Reboot — Why Alexa+, Gemini, and Siri Are Finally Getting Smarter

AI Coding Agents Deep Dive: Why Every Software Company Now Wants a Robot Engineer on Payroll

Health AI, Explained: Why Your Doctor, Watch, and Chatbot All Want a Role in Your Medical Anxiety

Smart Glasses, Explained: Why Tech Keeps Trying to Put the Internet on Your Face