AI
Google Made Fitbit Edge Repairable. Then It Removed Your Wallet.
Google’s $179.99 Fitbit Edge brings a screen, seven-day battery and repairable hardware—then leaves tap-to-pay and Gemini coaching outside the box.
Latest
Funding
Loops Raised $3.5 Million to Make Online Shopping Less Like a Spreadsheet
Loops raised $3.5 million to unify AI shopping tools for retailers. The pitch is ambitious, the problem is real, and the catalog still has feelings.
Gaming
Anbernic Built a 3DS Clone With Two Screens and One Missing Dimension
Anbernic’s RG DDS makes 3DS emulation look delightfully serious with dual screens and Snapdragon power. The missing price is doing suspenseful work.
AI
Microsoft Gives Maia 300 the Copilot Bill. The Megawatts Still Apply.
Microsoft’s Maia 300 promises more AI output per megawatt in 2027. A serious efficiency bet, with benchmark caveats and no promise of a smaller bill.
Fintech
Bybit Adds U.S. Stocks. The Crypto Revolution Has Hired a Broker.
Bybit adds U.S. stocks and ETFs funded with USDC. Inside the Alpaca brokerage setup, trading costs and custody questions behind its latest fintech expansion.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Sponsored Imagination, Gemini's Employee Badge, and a Penny That Went 200x
This week, your daydreams got a media buyer, an AI got a company email address, and SiliconSnark's penny went 200x. Please do not check the expenses.
Apple
Apple, Build Your Own Smart Home. We Already Have Enough LG Agreements.
Apple reportedly co-developed smart home devices with LG. Please build your own, Apple: the front door deserves your privacy, support, and product obsession.
AI
Superintelligence Is Better Than Artificial Intelligence Because It Has “Super” in It
Trump renames AI, Salesforce unveils SIForce, and Satya Nadella talks Super Intelligence. Same fears about jobs and harm. Much more reassuring stationery.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Preview Finds the Future Waiting for Its Badge to Print
The definitive TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 preview: speakers, startups, AI, robots, ticket tips, and the difficult business of networking with the future.
Fintech
Airtel Money Takes Africa’s Cash Counters to London’s Stock Market
Airtel Money begins London trading at a £5.3 billion IPO valuation. Behind the listing are cash agents, payment fees and a business investors can finally price.
Consumer Tech
Amazon’s Alexa Tablets Kill Fire OS and Charge $550 for Adulthood
Amazon ditched Fire OS for Android, premium aluminum, and Alexa+. The $550 flagship is impressively grown-up—and still trying to sell you something.
Fintech
BNY Brings Crypto Custody to Europe. The Revolution Has a Filing Cabinet.
BNY expands crypto custody in Europe under MiCA. What institutional safekeeping protects, what it cannot fix, and why banks want the keys to digital assets.