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.
Deals
Axcelis Technologies and Veeco Instruments announced a $4.4B all-stock merger to create a leading semiconductor equipment company. Here’s the snarky breakdown of what it really means.
Deals
Nextech3D.ai acquires Eventdex for $700K in cash. Snarky breakdown of blockchain ticketing, bold-font press releases, and why this deal matters.
Satire
We imagine a snarky backroom chat between Sam Altman and Patrick Collison that turned ChatGPT into your new shopping mall.
AI
Claude Sonnet 4.5 claims to be the best coding and agent-building model yet—but do these endless AI model releases actually matter, or are we just living in a GenAI hype loop?
Launch
OMNIVISION just launched the OV50R, a 50MP CMOS image sensor boasting 110 dB HDR, 8K video, and fast autofocus. Here’s a snarky deep dive into whether you really need cinematic cat videos at 4K 60 fps.
Guides
CES 2026 preview: real breakthroughs, wild hype, and the weirdest gadgets in Vegas. Our snarky guide separates must-see tech from marketing smoke.
Guides
Your go-to, alphabetized field guide to the chatbots, large language models, and generative darlings currently powering our weird, slightly unsettling, extremely helpful digital future.
This Week in Snark
Dive into this week’s funniest tech roundup: from useless AI apps and abandoned data centers to solar keyboards, Intel’s desperate cool-kid play, and billion-dollar ad tech deals. Snark guaranteed.
Guides
A snarky deep dive into the Top 10 most useless AI apps of the past year, from Meta’s new “Vibes” feed to cat translators, exposing how much compute we waste on gimmicks.
Satire
The AI bubble burst in 2030: Explore the darkly comic fallout of the AI market crash and the future of cloud computing post-AI.
Launch
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?
Deals
Integral Ad Science (IAS) Acquisition by Novacap Explained, with Just the Right Amount of Snark