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SiliconSnark's robot celebrates Roche acquiring Boston-based PathAI in a futuristic digital pathology lab overlooking Boston.

Boston Tech

Roche Bought PathAI, So Boston Tech Is Allowed to Strut for One Whole Minute

Roche is buying Boston-based PathAI for $750M upfront plus milestones, and yes, this is exactly the kind of hard-tech, health-AI win Boston should be insufferably proud of.

SiliconSnark robot minting a bank-issued stablecoin into payment and treasury rails.

Fintech

SoFi Started Minting a Stablecoin, Because the Super App Wasn't Complicated Enough

SoFi has started minting SoFiUSD, revealing a bigger ambition: turn a national bank, a stablecoin, and Mastercard rails into one settlement stack.

SiliconSnark's robot watches MongoDB turn agent memory and search infrastructure into a flashy enterprise stage demo.

MongoDB Turned Agent Memory Into Database Plumbing. It Might Actually Help.

MongoDB's May 7 London launch tries to make agents less forgetful and less duct-taped. The pitch is glorified data plumbing, which is exactly why it feels credible.

Launch

Huawei’s Watch Fit 5 Pro Shrinks the Adventure Watch for Normal Wrists

Huawei crammed ECG, golf maps, diving chops, and week-long battery life into a slim square watch. It is overqualified, Apple-coded, and more convincing than it should be.

The SiliconSnark robot at a Wall Street prediction market terminal surrounded by doubling valuations and a $22 billion scoreboard, holding a crystal ball and casino chip.

Startups

Kalshi Just Tripled Its Valuation Three Times in Seven Months. Bet You Didn't See That Coming.

A prediction market startup is now worth $22 billion after its third funding doubling in seven months. The only thing harder to predict than the future is apparently Kalshi's valuation.

SiliconSnark robot stamps building plans in a war room.

Startups

Davis Raised $5.5M to Make Permitting Anxiety a Design Input

Davis says it can turn months of real-estate feasibility work into days. Slightly insane pitch, oddly grounded founders, and a pre-seed I can picture.

Deep Dive

Deep Dive: The Robotaxi Industry’s 2026 Reality Check

Robotaxis are finally carrying paying riders at scale. This guide explains the tech, economics, safety fights, and why geofences still run the show.

The SiliconSnark robot stands in a massive GPU-filled data center wearing a landlord hat and holding a “Colossus 1” key

Big Tech

Elon Musk Called Anthropic Evil — Then Leased Them His Entire Supercomputer

In February, Musk called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil.” In May, he handed them 220,000 GPUs, cleared them on his evil detector, and signed a receipt.

SiliconSnark’s robot uses the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni while multiple gaming devices feed into one premium audio setup.

Review

SteelSeries Built a $400 Headset to Replace Your Entire Desk Drawer

The Arctis Nova Pro Omni is brilliant, excessive, and oddly practical: one pricey headset for your PC, console, phone, and your inability to pick a lane.

SiliconSnark’s robot stands in a CPG operations room as AI agents untangle purchase orders, forecasts, and supply chain dashboards.

Startups

Corvera Raised $4.2 Million to Firefight Your Supply Chain Inbox

Corvera thinks CPG brands do not need more dashboards. They need fewer humans trapped between inboxes, ERPs, and Amazon settlement reports.

SiliconSnark’s mascot robot stands in an enterprise AI control room stopping a cartoon agent from deploying itself.

Collibra Built an AI Panopticon for Agents

Collibra’s AI Command Center promises real-time oversight for agentic AI. The branding is surveillance chic, but the enterprise logic is harder to mock than I’d like.

SiliconSnark robot watches a Coinbase-style office reorg where AI dashboards replace empty desks.

Layoffs

Coinbase Discovered AI, So 700 Humans Became a Cost Structure

I like Coinbase. I want Coinbase to win. Which is why watching it dress a plain old layoff in AI-native cosplay is so irritating.

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