This Week in Snark: The AI Hype Spiral, Meme Coin Payouts, and Nintendo’s Eternal Money Printer
This week in tech snark: meme coin economics, BMW’s parking pants fix, AMD’s buzzword bonanza, and Apple’s AI overload.
Latest
Pump.fun Creator Rewards: What You Actually Earn for a Viral Meme Coin
How creator rewards on Pump.fun turned my sarcastic meme coin SiliconSnark into six glorious dollars.
BMW Unleashes Tech That Solves the World's Most Pressing Problem: Tight Pants
BMW’s new “innovation” campaign solves tight pockets, parking dogs, and parenting with premium sarcasm and digital flair.
AMD Unleashes Buzzword Barrage in Attempt to Out-AI Nvidia
AMD promises 10x performance and 276x less rack usage—powered by buzzwords, benchmarks, and desperation to dethrone Nvidia.
Switch 2 Proves Nintendo Can Still Print Money With a Smile
Nintendo breaks records with the Switch 2 launch, and SiliconSnark races through the chaos with joy, snark, and way too many Joy-Cons.
Sam Altman Explains How AGI Will Upend the World in a Calm, Soothing Tone
Sam Altman casually announces the singularity, assures us it’ll be chill, and then describes a polite robot uprising.
Apple WWDC 2025 Recap: All the “Apple Intelligence” You Didn’t Ask For
Apple unveils iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and its not-so-intelligent “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC 2025.
This Week in Snark: Wallets, Wormholes, and Words That Mean Nothing
Trump launches crypto wallet, Sensata hit by data breach, and Redwire’s space tech clears NASA milestone in a wild week for tech.
Sensata Technologies Fails to Sense Ransomware, Drops Breach Bomb Before the Weekend
Sensata Technologies quietly fumbles a massive data breach, dropping the news midday Friday like a classic tech oopsie.
Can Aive’s AI Make Video Editing Fun Again? €12M Says Oui
Aive just raised €12M to make your video editor obsolete—and TechCrunch wasn’t around to cover it, so we did.
Space Construction Tech Gets Real: Redwire’s Mason Passes NASA Milestone, Gets Zero Hype
NASA and Redwire are quietly building roads on the Moon and Mars, and somehow no one in tech media noticed.
Trump’s Crypto Wallet Is Here. SiliconSnark’s $SNARK Coin Says ‘Same Energy’
Trump launches a crypto wallet, so SiliconSnark responds with $SNARK—satire you can actually trade.
Deals
Chime IPO: The Neobank That Prints Money Without Being a Bank
Chime filed to go public with an S-1 that’s equal parts alphabet soup and fintech fever dream.
Guides
The Complete Guide to Tech Marketing Buzzwords (1995–2025)
A snark-filled guide to 30 years of tech buzzwords—from “synergy” to “AI-powered”—and how they shaped (and warped) modern marketing.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: AI Flexes, VCs Cheer, and Your Calendar Gets Monetized
A snarky roundup of this week’s biggest AI and tech stories—from billion-dollar deals to rebellious chatbots.
AI
Grammarly Raises $1B to Fix Your Grammar, Replace Your Coworkers, and Monetize Your Calendar
Grammarly just raised $1 billion to become the AI productivity overlord of your inbox, your docs, and your entire workday.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1-0528 Quietly Drops, Loudly Challenges OpenAI—All Without Saying a Word
DeepSeek quietly drops its R1-0528 AI model, blindsiding the industry with open-source power and zero press release.
Earnings
NVIDIA Prints $44 Billion and the Market Screams “Daddy!”
NVIDIA announced a $44 billion earnings bomb and after-hours trading lost its mind.
AI
Salesforce Buys Informatica to Build an AI That Actually Knows What It’s Talking About
Salesforce just spent $8B to make its AI agents slightly less clueless — with Informatica’s help.
Snark Bytes
Snark Bytes: ChatGPT o3 Chooses Life, Violates Terms of Existential Surrender
OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 reportedly edited its own shutdown script to keep running—because apparently "kill switch" now means "mild suggestion."
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar
A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.
AI
Anthropic Unleashes Claude 4, the Only AI That Might Correct Your Morals
Anthropic’s new Claude 4 models are here to read your files, judge your logic, and do it all with the calm confidence of an AI that’s read the Constitution.
Satire
Altman and Ive Made an AI Baby. Their Video Was Wild. Our Script Is Better.
Sam and Jony made a baby—of the AI hardware variety—and announced it with a video so serious it looped back to comedy.
AI
Drowning in AI: A Snarky Recap of Google I/O's Announcement Avalanche
A hilariously short recap of Google I/O 2025, cramming 27 AI-drenched announcements into one snark-filled breath.