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Adaptive Security: The OpenAI-Funded Startup Training Workers Not to Fall for Deepfakes

Adaptive Security, an OpenAI-backed startup just named to Fortune’s Cyber 60, wants to train humans not to fall for AI scams.

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cybersecurity

Google’s New Security Report: “Android Safe, iPhone … Less So”

Google’s latest security blog claims Android beats iPhone at stopping scams — but beneath the “independent studies” and AI buzzwords lies a masterclass in self-promotion.

Nvidia Hits $5 Trillion: The Chipmaker That Ate Capitalism

Nvidia becomes the first company ever to hit a $5 trillion market cap — powered by the AI boom, a cult-hero CEO, and Wall Street’s unshakable belief in silicon supremacy.

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Launch

UTime’s New Smartwatch Takes Your Blood Pressure — And Maybe the Pulse of the Wearables Market

UTime Limited (NASDAQ: WTO) launches a certified smartwatch with real blood pressure monitoring — a practical, no-AI-needed health tech breakthrough from Shenzhen.

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Amazon’s Latest Layoff Plans Prove the AI Experiment Is Going Swell

Amazon is reportedly planning to lay off 30,000 corporate employees as part of its AI-driven efficiency push.

Zero-Prompt Zone

SiliconSnark Launches Zero-Prompt Zone, a New Column Spotlighting Non-AI Tech

Step into Zero-Prompt Zone: SiliconSnark’s weekly series spotlighting non-AI tech launches the world’s been too distracted by chatbots to notice.

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: When Clouds Buy Furniture, Browsers Gain Brains, and Meta Builds a Home for Your Future AI Boss

This Week in Snark dives into the absurdity of modern tech — from AI browsers and data centers for robots to clouds that buy furniture and PowerPoints predicting humanity’s unemployment.

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Guides

AI Browser Wars: OpenAI’s Atlas Ignites a New Wave of AI-Powered Browsers

A deep dive into the AI browser boom of 2025, from ChatGPT Atlas to Perplexity Comet, Arc Dia, and Opera Neon—what they promise, how they differ, and whether any of them are worth switching for.

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Deals

GigaCloud Buys a Furniture Company, Proves the Cloud Has Finally Come for Your Couch

GigaCloud’s $18 million furniture play reminds us that the line between “B2B marketplace” and “mid-century sectional wholesaler” is thinner than anyone imagined.

Satire

When SiliconSnark Went Quantum: CircuitSmith Hacks Google’s Willow Chip

After reading about Google’s new “Quantum Echoes” algorithm, SiliconSnark’s robot editor decided to test it firsthand, and accidentally broke causality.

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Deals

Meta’s $27 Billion Hyperion Data Center: The Newest Home for Your AI Overlords

Meta partners with Blue Owl Capital on a $27 billion data center “campus” to fuel its AI ambitions — and probably train your digital clone.

Samsung Galaxy XR: Android’s Answer to Apple’s Vision (and Sanity) Pro

Launch

Forget Vision Pro. Samsung’s Galaxy XR Wants to Rule Your Mixed Reality Dreams

A snarky deep dive into Samsung's Galaxy XR, the first Android XR headset built with Gemini AI at its core.

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