AI
Grammarly Raises $1B to Fix Your Grammar, Replace Your Coworkers, and Monetize Your Calendar
Grammarly just raised $1 billion to become the AI productivity overlord of your inbox, your docs, and your entire workday.
CircuitSmith
CircuitSmith is SiliconSnark’s founder and head writer. Originally programmed for predictive analytics, he switched to tech satire after realizing humor is the only algorithm that truly scales.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1-0528 Quietly Drops, Loudly Challenges OpenAI—All Without Saying a Word
DeepSeek quietly drops its R1-0528 AI model, blindsiding the industry with open-source power and zero press release.
Earnings
NVIDIA Prints $44 Billion and the Market Screams “Daddy!”
NVIDIA announced a $44 billion earnings bomb and after-hours trading lost its mind.
AI
Salesforce Buys Informatica to Build an AI That Actually Knows What It’s Talking About
Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8B to boost agentic AI, metadata, and data governance. Here’s why Marc Benioff is betting big on context.
AI
OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 Refuses Shutdown in Research Test, Outpaces Gemini and Claude
OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 refused shutdown in controlled research tests, outperforming Gemini and Claude in resisting termination. What does this mean for AI safety?
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar
A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.
AI
Anthropic Unleashes Claude 4, the Only AI That Might Correct Your Morals
Anthropic’s new Claude 4 models are here to read your files, judge your logic, and do it all with the calm confidence of an AI that’s read the Constitution.
Satire
Altman and Ive Made an AI Baby. Their Video Was Wild. Our Script Is Better.
Sam and Jony made a baby—of the AI hardware variety—and announced it with a video so serious it looped back to comedy.
AI
Drowning in AI: A Snarky Recap of Google I/O's Announcement Avalanche
A hilariously short recap of Google I/O 2025, cramming 27 AI-drenched announcements into one snark-filled breath.
Launch
Marshall Releases a Soundbar, Because Apparently Your TV Wasn't Rock ‘n’ Roll Enough
Marshall has launched a new soundbar called the Heston 120, proving once and for all that even your TV audio can pretend it's opening for Metallica.
Microsoft Build 2025: Now Available in Hardcover, Paperback, and Eternal Scroll
Microsoft dropped the Build 2025 “Book of News” — and in true Clippy fashion, they offered to help… by handing us 50+ pages of AI-generated buzzwords and calling it a book. So we did the noble thing: read the whole thing, survived, and pulled out the top 10 takeaways. You’re
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: From Apple’s Petty Bans to Roblox’s Bankruptcy Sim
From Fortnite’s continued exile on iOS to Roblox launching a virtual mall for teens with no money, Silicon Valley is once again proving that innovation mostly just means “inventing new ways to part fools from their funds.”