ChatGPT Pulse: Now Your AI Will Nag You Before You Even Ask
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive AI assistant that delivers daily personalized updates from your chats, calendar, and Gmail. Helpful productivity tool—or algorithmic nag?
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IAS Sells Itself for $1.9 Billion—Because “Trust and Transparency” Apparently Require Private Equity Backing
Integral Ad Science (IAS) Acquisition by Novacap Explained, with Just the Right Amount of Snark
Logitech’s Solar Keyboard K980: Do We Really Need More Innovation in Typing?
Logitech’s new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard promises solar charging, AI keys, and sustainability. But do we really need more keyboard innovation—or just better marketing?
Dear Lip-Bu: A Totally Serious (Not At All Ridiculous) Plan for Intel to Be the Cool Kid of AI Again
Open letter to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan with absurd “strategies” for beating Nvidia in AI—featuring Gaudi 3, Lunar Lake NPUs, Intel 18A/14A, foundry twists, and Ohio fab lore. Satire, but informed.
The AI-ification of 911: Axon Acquires Prepared to Rewire Public Safety
Axon is acquiring Prepared, an AI-powered 911 platform. Here’s why “AI-enhanced emergencies” might sound efficient but really look like another play for public safety monopoly.
TCL QM9K Launch: The “Ultimate” TV That Thinks Buzzwords Count as Features
TCL has just launched what it boldly calls “the pinnacle of the Ultimate Series” — the new QM9K television, now available at Best Buy. The company claims it’s the first Google TV with Gemini, which sounds less like a real product feature and more like the latest Marvel spinoff. But
This Week in Snark: Glasses That Read Your Muscles, Bananas That Aren’t Bananas, and the Death of the Office Door
A snark-filled weekly roundup skewering AI gadgets, corporate acquisitions, and tech cult trends—from muscle-reading glasses to Google’s Nano Banana craze.