This Week in Snark: Apple’s Avalanche of Launches, Databricks’ Alphabet Soup, and Microsoft’s Empty Promises This Week in Snark: Microsoft’s empty MOU, Apple’s press release flood, Databricks’ Series K, and Google censoring our funniest articles.
Microsoft and OpenAI Announce a Memorandum of Understanding, Which Is Fancy Talk for “We’ll Get Back to You Later” Microsoft and OpenAI announced a non-binding MOU with just 47 words — here’s an 800-word snarky breakdown of what the shortest press release in tech history really means.
Vanta AI Agent Promises to Make Risk Management Less Boring Vanta’s new AI Agent promises to end compliance chaos, and SiliconSnark is the only place making noise about it.
From RSS to RSL: The Really Simple Licensing Standard Wants to Make AI Pay Rent The RSL Standard (Really Simple Licensing) promises to turn AI content scraping into fair compensation. Or at least into the internet’s first robot toll booth.
Apple’s Fall Event 2025: Press Releases Nobody But Me Will Ever Read SiliconSnark breaks down all seven Apple Fall Event 2025 press releases—from iPhone 17 Pro Max to AirPods Pro 3—with snarky summaries questioning why anyone still reads them.
The 20 SiliconSnark Articles Google Won’t Let You Read Discover 20 satirical SiliconSnark articles Google unindexed—proof the algorithm just can’t handle good tech humor.
Databricks Hits $4B Run-Rate, $1B in AI Revenue, and a Series K That Proves Alphabet Soup Has No End Databricks crosses $4B revenue run-rate, $1B in AI revenue, and raises a $1B Series K round at a $100B+ valuation—complete with new buzzwords, Agent Bricks and Lakebase.