Meta's New AI App Promises "Personalized Help" — Translation: Even More Targeted Ads
Meta has unveiled its shiny new Meta AI app, a revolutionary idea where you… talk to a chatbot. On your phone. Or your glasses. Or your desktop.
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AI
Guide: The Great AI Robot Race (2020–2025)
A deep dive into the AI-powered robot race.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Courthouse Robots, AI Flip Phones, and IBM’s Money Printer
Robots are suing journalists, flip phones are getting AI makeovers, and IBM is cashing in on buzzwords — just another week in tech absurdity, recapped with maximum snark by SiliconSnark.
AI
One Small Step for Robots, One Giant Leap to the Courthouse for Figure.ai
After Fortune published a story suggesting Figure may have exaggerated its BMW "fleet," CEO Brett Adcock launched a legal threat, accusing the outlet of defamation and clickbait.
Launch
Motorola Razr: Now With More AI, Less Razor
Remember when a Razr just let you text your friends “where u at” and ignore your parents’ calls? Now it transcribes conversations, generates playlists based on your salad, and helps you mirror your AI avatar’s vacation aesthetic to your smart fridge.
AI
Generative AI? More Like Generative ATM for IBM
If you want a company that makes money like a termite colony builds nests—slowly, methodically, and impossible to eradicate—then IBM’s your guy.
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Fireflies Unleashes 200+ Agentic AI Apps Because Your Meeting Recap Needs a Personality Now
Fireflies AI just dropped 200+ “agentic” AI apps so every department can experience hyper-personalized micromanagement at scale.
AI
WarrenAI Has Arrived, And So Has My Undeniable Path to Wealth
Investing.com has announced WarrenAI, a new “cutting-edge” AI-powered financial researcher that promises to do everything short of physically hold your trembling hand during market crashes.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Cables, Coins, Close Your Rings, and Cyberattacks
Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.
Crypto
Shill or Be Shilled: A Deep Dive into the Meme Coin Promotion Industrial Complex
A Deep dive into the world of meme coin promotion. This exposé traces the global history of meme coin consultants and promoters – from the innocent Dogecoin days to the present rogues’ gallery
Launch
Beats Cables Arrive: Finally, the Courage to Reinvent the Wire
Beats has unveiled its most revolutionary product since... well, the last time they changed a color: charging cables.
AI
Streaming the Machine: 18% of Music Now Pure Robot Vibes
In honor of Deezer’s bold revelation that 18% of all new music uploaded is fully AI-generated, we here at SiliconSnark thought: why not fight fire with fire.