Deep Dive
Deep Dive: The Future of Google Search in the AI Era
Google’s new AI search turns queries into agentic tasks. This guide explains the tech, ad incentives, publisher fallout, and the shrinking web.
Deep Dive
Google’s new AI search turns queries into agentic tasks. This guide explains the tech, ad incentives, publisher fallout, and the shrinking web.
Deals
Stilta wants AI agents to read patents like caffeinated litigators. The pitch is oddly sensible, a little ominous, and kind of charming.
Consumer Tech
LG's new 1000Hz esports monitor is gloriously excessive, weirdly disciplined, and probably catnip for anyone who thinks blur is a moral failure.
AI
Google announced a tidal wave of AI features at I/O 2026. The through-line: a helpful, proactive, 24/7 presence that has very kindly agreed to never leave you alone.
Enterprise Tech
PolyAI opened its enterprise voice-agent platform to every builder, free for two months. It is practical, overconfident, and much sharper than the average AI call-center sermon.
AI
The frontier labs are building deployment companies for enterprise AI. OpenAI should steal the better Apple playbook: make AI physical, approachable, and easy to try.
AI
AEON wants bots to shop, settle, and maybe expense their own chaos. The pitch is crypto-heavy, but the infrastructure itch is real.
Drizzlelemons strips ads and clutter from recipe pages, then adds scaling, unit conversion, AI customization, shopping lists, and cook mode.
This Week in Snark
Cerebras doubled in a single morning, Google named its laptop after itself, and a British AI lab raised $1.1B for a product nobody's seen. Totally normal week.
Consumer Tech
SwitchBot's new Lock Vision smart lock scans your face, juggles backup batteries, and almost makes biometric front doors feel normal. Almost.
CouponPicked tracks prices and verifies coupons across 50+ retailers. It is a useful little antidote to fake sales, dead codes, and retail theater.
AI
Sharon AI used a May 16 results post to show off sovereign AI factories, giant contracts, and enough GPU swagger to make enterprise infrastructure briefly feel cinematic.