Funding
Mercury Banks $300M to Disrupt Banking, Again, Still, Forever
Fintech startup Mercury just raised a cool $300 million, instantly tripling the number of VC group chats that will now start with “We should do something in fintech.”
Latest
Satire
OpenAI's 4o Image Generator Tells Its Origin Story
What would it be like if this brand-new OpenAI Image Generator had a personality, a flair for drama, and a wild sense of humor?
AI
Gemini 2.5: Google's AI Model That Finally Decided to Think First
Gemini 2.5 is a “thinking model,” which obviously makes everything before it just “shrugging and hoping” models.
Apple
Snark Bytes: AirPods Max, Now With Actual Audio Features
Apple has announced that the AirPods Max are finally getting actual audio features next month.
Launch
Monzo Tackles the UK’s Most Taboo Topic: Asking for Your Money Back
British digital bank Monzo thinks you're too British to ask for your money back, so it built an app to do it for you.
Launch
SiliconSnark Launches HypeWheel™, the Startup Game No One Asked For But Everyone Deserves
SiliconSnark has launched HypeWheel, a startup pivot simulator designed to disrupt productivity and insult your intelligence at the same time.
Deals
TechCrunch Got Acquired Again, So We Did a Pitch Deck Teardown Of Their Press Release
Pour one out for the Disrupt-branded hoodies and whatever shred of independence TechCrunch still had left in the Yahoo basement. The tech media institution just got scooped up by yet another private equity firm.
AI
This Week in Snark: From Pebble’s Resurrection to Nvidia’s AI Empire
From AI CEOs to dead wearables crawling back from the grave, this week’s Silicon Snark round-up is a blend of quantum ambition, GPU domination, and just a touch of dystopia.
NVIDIA GTC
GTC 2026: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Replaced by AI, Entire Workforce Automated, Keynote Delivered by Autonomous Robots (Satire)
Here’s a sneak peek at what we expect GTC 2026 to look like, based on the undeniable trajectory of NVIDIA’s latest innovations.
Launch
JEDI Forecasting: The Force Awakens, but Only 15% Smarter
The Weather Company has decided to wield the power of JEDI. Not the kind that can levitate X-wings, but the kind that promises a whopping 15% improvement in forecast accuracy.
AI
Nvidia’s AI Electric Grid: Who Needs Humans When GPUs Can Manage the Power?
Fresh off its mission to AI-ify every industry in existence, Nvidia has now set its sights on the power sector.
Enterprise Tech
Meet Welinq: The Startup Quietly Building Quantum’s AWS
Enter Welinq, a company you’ve probably never heard of but now should, because they’ve just launched the first commercial quantum memory designed specifically for quantum data centers.