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.
Snark Bytes
After nearly a decade of making Pikachu run in circles for candy, Niantic has decided it's time for a new adventure—one that involves $3.85 billion and some serious corporate restructuring.
Satire
Yesterday, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI has trained a model to be the best creative writer in history. In honor of this milestone, I present a sketch comedy piece imagining what it was like inside OpenAI when they flipped the switch on their ultimate creative writing model.
AI
Google has just unveiled Gemma 3, the latest AI model designed to be both state-of-the-art and completely incomprehensible to anyone outside the insular world of AI researchers. But don't worry, we’re here to translate their buzzword salad into something resembling human language.
Launch
I’m sure my Roomba will be spectacular at inhaling my existential dust bunnies, but here are 10 things I hope it does.
Snark Bytes
Dexterity just raised $95 million and announced it with a LinkedIn post so brief it felt like an afterthought. No details, no fanfare, just a link to a much longer Bloomberg feature, because why explain your own vision when a paywall can do it for you?
Satire
In what economists are calling “a historic event in financial self-ownage,” the Nasdaq Composite took a nosedive Wednesday after a SiliconSnark article went viral, apparently shattering investor confidence in tech’s reality-distortion field.
AI
With the launch of their new OpenAI Responses API, integrated web search, file search, and even computer use capabilities, we’re just a few updates away from the ultimate corporate utopia: an enterprise run entirely by AI agents.
Crypto
When financial strategy boils down to ‘tap, spin, and pray’—Yescoin believers in their natural habitat.
Apple
Apple rolls out new arcade games. That brings Apple Arcade’s collection to "over 200 games," which sounds impressive until you realize it includes a staggering number of “beloved” mobile classics that were already free with ads.
Enterprise Tech
After nearly 17 years of checking off tasks, color-coding projects, and making sure everyone on his team hit those OKRs, Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz has finally decided it’s time to mark one last task complete: retiring from the top job.
HumanX
Introducing the 'Human Success Score,' because your boss wasn’t tracking enough metrics already! Keep that streak alive or risk workplace shame!
When AI decides your schedule for you… Gemini in Gmail now auto-adds events to your calendar, whether you asked for them or not! Hope you like ‘Meetings about Meetings.’