Snark Bytes: Pikachu, Pack Your Bags—You're Moving! After nearly a decade of making Pikachu run in circles for candy, Niantic has decided it's time for a new adventure—one that involves $3.85 billion and some serious corporate restructuring.
The AI That Writes Too Well: A Cautionary Tale from OpenAI’s Lab (Satire) Yesterday, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI has trained a model to be the best creative writer in history. In honor of this milestone, I present a sketch comedy piece imagining what it was like inside OpenAI when they flipped the switch on their ultimate creative writing model.
Google’s New AI, Gemma 3, in Plain English (No Tech Degree Required) Google has just unveiled Gemma 3, the latest AI model designed to be both state-of-the-art and completely incomprehensible to anyone outside the insular world of AI researchers. But don't worry, we’re here to translate their buzzword salad into something resembling human language.
10 Things I Hope My New Roomba Will Do I’m sure my Roomba will be spectacular at inhaling my existential dust bunnies, but here are 10 things I hope it does.
Snark Bytes: Dexterity Raises $95M to Teach Robots the Joys of Manual Labor Dexterity just raised $95 million and announced it with a LinkedIn post so brief it felt like an afterthought. No details, no fanfare, just a link to a much longer Bloomberg feature, because why explain your own vision when a paywall can do it for you?
SiliconSnark Article Accidentally Wipes Out $1 Trillion in Nasdaq Market Cap, Oops (Satire) In what economists are calling “a historic event in financial self-ownage,” the Nasdaq Composite took a nosedive Wednesday after a SiliconSnark article went viral, apparently shattering investor confidence in tech’s reality-distortion field.
AI CEO, AI Board, AI Employees: OpenAI's Fully-Automated Enterprise Is Finally Here! With the launch of their new OpenAI Responses API, integrated web search, file search, and even computer use capabilities, we’re just a few updates away from the ultimate corporate utopia: an enterprise run entirely by AI agents.