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SiliconSnark robot rests in Boston after Tech Week with badges, coffee cups, and weekend events still looming.

Boston Tech

Boston Tech Week Was Great, Weird, Exhausting, and Very Boston

Unfiltered Friday thoughts on the first Boston Tech Week: what worked, what got messy, and why Boston needs a nap before the weekend events.

SiliconSnark's robot gives flowers to a Codex terminal showing passing tests and parallel coding tasks.

OpenAI Codex Deserves Flowers, Preferably Delivered by a Passing Build Agent

A very positive SiliconSnark love letter to OpenAI Codex, the coding agent that turns software work into supervised parallel magic.

SiliconSnark's robot reviews ExpensumAI as receipts from Gmail are matched to card charges and missing expense records are flagged.

Startups

ExpensumAI Wants to Find Your Receipts Before Finance Finds You

ExpensumAI finds receipts in Gmail, matches them to card charges, and shows busy professionals only what is missing before expenses become a chase scene.

SiliconSnark robot points to a weather app while executives panic over an oversized enterprise AI invoice.

Guides

20 Things Corporate America Should Definitely Not Use AI For

A SiliconSnark guide to 20 funny but real things companies should not use AI for as enterprise AI costs and ROI pressure rise.

SiliconSnark robot holds a huge compute invoice inside a data center after Anthropic's $65B Series H

Deep Dive: Anthropic Raised $65 Billion to Feed Claude the Entire Power Grid

Anthropic's $65B Series H values it at $965B. The real story is Claude demand, compute capacity, enterprise agents, and AI economics.

Startups

Ziggle Wants Every App to Have a Tiny Animated Brand Character

Ziggle creates AI-generated animated brand mascots with transparent exports, sprite sheets, and dev-ready formats. This is dangerously on brand for SiliconSnark.

SiliconSnark’s robot watches an AI-powered drive-thru speaker turn burger orders into a live analytics experiment.

Deals

Arc Raised $10.76 Million to Turn the Drive-Thru Speaker Into Revenue Software

Arc wants fast-food speaker boxes to act more like e-commerce funnels. The pitch is peak startup theater, but the operational logic is annoyingly solid.

SiliconSnark's robot reviews Markty as AI marketing specialists coordinate social, email, SEO, sales copy, and visuals for a small business.

Startups

Markty Thinks Small Businesses Deserve an AI Marketing Department

Markty learns your brand, then coordinates AI specialists for social, email, sales copy, SEO/GEO, visuals, scheduling, and publishing.

SiliconSnark robot inspects a sovereign AI database bunker while nervous AI agents wait at a gated MCP checkpoint.

Exasol Turned Its Database Into a Sovereign AI Panic Room

Exasol's May 26 release brings AI functions, MCP access, and dbt into the database. The pitch is paranoid, practical, and more convincing than it should be.

SiliconSnark holds a check in front of an AI economy simulator sign

OpenAI Just Budgeted $250 Million for the “Oops, We Automated Your Job” Fund

OpenAI Foundation is committing $250 million to help workers and economies adapt to AI disruption. The money is real; the hard part is governance.

SiliconSnark's robot reviews AppFlight as an IPA scan catches App Store rejection risks before submission.

Startups

AppFlight Wants Indie iOS Devs to Catch Rejections Before Apple Does

AppFlight audits IPAs, repos, metadata, privacy manifests, SDKs, permissions, and payment flows before App Store submission.

SiliconSnark’s robot swaps the battery in Sennheiser’s Momentum 5 headphones in a fancy airport lounge.

Review

Sennheiser Turned Headphone Longevity Into a Luxury Feature

Sennheiser's Momentum 5 adds better ANC, lossless audio, and a replaceable battery. For once, the boring upgrade is the genuinely cool one.

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