Deep Dive
Definitive Guide to Smart Glasses and the Face Computer Wars
Google’s new AI glasses revive a category Meta already dominates. This guide explains the tech, incentives, privacy stakes, and why face computers persist.
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.
AI
Kled Looks Like the Builder. Luel Looks Like the Knockoff Listing.
Kled has a pretty sympathetic case in its feud with YC-backed Luel: competition is great, but Luel's public pitch looks an awful lot like the fast-follower knockoff version of Kled's human data marketplace.
Startups
The Path Raised $14.3M to Put Tony Robbins in Your Pocket
The Path wants AI therapy to challenge your thinking instead of farming your feelings for retention. Slightly alarming, oddly thoughtful, and more serious than the usual wellness bot.
Startups
Shadow Journal Wants AI Journaling to Look Inward Without Playing Therapist
Shadow Journal is a private Jungian AI journal for shadow work, archetypes, and recurring patterns. It is early, thoughtful, and weird in a useful way.
Review
Sony Turned Noise-Canceling Headphones Into a Leather Status Object
Sony's $649.99 1000X THE COLLEXION looks expensive, sounds refined, and sacrifices a bit of practical sense for luxury. Annoyingly, I kind of get it.
Startups
AVIAN Raised $2.6M to Catch Factory Fires Before the Insurance Broker Does
AVIAN puts thermal cameras on industrial hot spots and turns overheating into an insurance argument. Weirdly practical, faintly dystopian, and kind of excellent.
Fintech
Mercury Raised $200 Million to Stop Renting a Bank and Become One
Mercury's $200 million round is really a bank charter story: the startup-fintech stack wants to stop renting sponsor banks and own the pipes.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: SpaceX Filed Its IPO Prospectus. Are You Buying Rockets, Wi-Fi, or xAI's GPU Habit?
SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals a company powered by Starlink profits, buried in AI losses, and built for Musk control. This deep dive explains the real bet.
Startups
Playmix Wants Vibe Coding to Become a Browser Game Jam
Playmix turns plain-language prompts into playable web games, then lets creators iterate with assets, settings, history, hosting, and share links.
Boston Tech
The Definitive Preview to Boston Tech Week: a16z Meets a City That Already Did the Homework
Boston Tech Week runs May 26-31, 2026. This deep-dive preview covers the schedule, a16z history, best events, and why Boston is built for it.
Enterprise Tech
Camunda Built an Operating System for Business Processes
Camunda’s new ProcessOS says your workflow is the legacy system. It sounds like consulting cosplay, but the enterprise logic is annoyingly solid.
Startups
SafeCircle Wants Child Safety Without Turning Privacy Into Collateral Damage
SafeCircle is early, but its privacy-focused predator-risk detection idea is pointed at one of the internet's most important unsolved problems.