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SiliconSnark’s robot reacts as an Amazon product page turns into an AI call-in shopping show.

Amazon Turned Product Pages Into a Call-In Shopping Show

Amazon's new Join the chat makes shopping feel like talk radio with purchase intent. Slightly absurd, occasionally useful, and more coherent than it has any right to be.

The SiliconSnark robot sits in a chaotic airport terminal wearing a customer service headset, tablet buffering as departure boards show wall-to-wall cancellations.

Netomi Raised $110 Million to Fix Customer Service at United Airlines.

Netomi just closed a $110M round to bring 'agentic AI' to the world's most broken customer service experiences. Their clients include United Airlines. I believe in them the way I believe in the chatbot that told me my bag was in Denver.

The SiliconSnark robot presents a $145 billion AI capex chart to a bewildered audience of investors in a gleaming corporate boardroom.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending $145 Billion on AI This Year. When Asked About the ROI, He Called It a “Very Technical Question.”

Meta smashed every earnings estimate, hiked its AI spending to $145 billion, and watched the stock drop 8% anyway. Zuckerberg’s explanation for the return on all that investment? “That’s a very technical question.”

SiliconSnark robot holds a giant AI infrastructure receipt while Big Tech earnings beats glow across Wall Street trading screens.

Big Tech Beat Earnings. Then AI Handed Wall Street the Receipt.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft all showed real AI demand. The catch is that the boom now comes with a data center invoice attached.

SiliconSnark robot presides over a polished finance war room where an AI planning assistant turns tense budget chaos into clean forecasts.

Planful Wants to Forecast Your Quarter in a Chat Window

Planful’s new Planner Assistant turns FP&A into a conversation. The pitch is smarter than most finance AI, and unusually aware of its own limits.

SiliconSnark’s robot watches Dex turn a chaotic pile of startup hiring noise into a tiny shortlist of AI engineers.

Dex Raised $5.3M to Hire Your AI Engineers Without the LinkedIn Parade

Dex is building an AI talent agent for AI engineers, which sounds recursive until you notice the traction. Slightly smug premise, genuinely useful wedge.

SiliconSnark’s robot lounges on a couch using Valve’s Steam Controller in front of a giant strategy game on TV.

Valve Wants to Turn Your Couch Into a CRPG Command Center

Valve's $99 Steam Controller looks like a peace treaty between mouse people and sofa people. It is weird, sharp, a little heavy, and much better than it needs to be.

The SiliconSnark robot sits at a government conference table doing a table read with suited officials.

Washington Banned Anthropic for Refusing Killer Robots. The NSA Didn’t Get the Memo.

The U.S. government banned Anthropic for refusing to enable autonomous weapons. Then the NSA started using the banned AI anyway. Now there are “table reads.”

SiliconSnark robot grinning in a futuristic control room labeled “Post-Maxxing Command Center,” surrounded by chaotic startup dashboards showing apexxing, vortexxing, and godmode metrics.

Beyond Maxxing: SiliconSnark Creates New Tech Slang for 2026

A guide to the next generation of tech internet slang, introducing verbs like apexxing, vortexxing, and godmodding that go beyond “maxxing”

SiliconSnark’s robot watches Quickbase’s Pave generate internal workflow apps in a busy enterprise control room

Quickbase Wants to Vibe-Code Your Back Office. The Guardrails Are Real.

Quickbase’s Pave wants to turn vibe coding into governed business software. The pitch is oddly sensible, the guardrails are real, and that might be the whole point.

SiliconSnark’s robot celebrates as Marloo turns a financial adviser’s mountain of paperwork into tidy AI-organized documents.

Marloo Raised $10 Million to Free Financial Advisers From Paperwork

Marloo wants to bury financial advice admin in AI so advisers can act like advisers again. Suspiciously sensible, faintly unnerving, and easy to root for.

SiliconSnark’s robot lounges at an airport beside vivo’s huge-battery Y600 Pro while other travelers fight over charging outlets.

vivo Built the Y600 Pro to Outlast Your Weekend. Is It Just Battery and Vibes?

vivo's new Y600 Pro packs a 10,200mAh battery into a midrange phone that looks weirdly normal. It is gloriously excessive and more convincing than expected.

SiliconSnark robot watches Yale founders demo an iMessage social network in a chaotic seed-stage lounge.

Series Raised $5.1 Million to Put Warm Intros in iMessage

Series lives inside iMessage, promising warm intros instead of follower theater. The Yale-built $5.1M pre-seed bet is weird, earnest, and more plausible than it should be.

The SiliconSnark robot reads a breakup letter at a candlelit table, with an empty chair labeled "Azure Exclusivity,"

Microsoft and OpenAI Are Now 'Official but Non-Exclusive.' The AGI Clause Got a Quiet Funeral.

After five years of exclusivity, Microsoft and OpenAI just announced an open relationship. They also buried the clause about what happens when AI becomes smarter than us. No big deal.