Launch
Logitech’s new Signature Slim Solar+ K980 keyboard promises solar charging, AI keys, and sustainability. But do we really need more keyboard innovation—or just better marketing?
Satire
Open letter to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan with absurd “strategies” for beating Nvidia in AI—featuring Gaudi 3, Lunar Lake NPUs, Intel 18A/14A, foundry twists, and Ohio fab lore. Satire, but informed.
Deals
Axon is acquiring Prepared, an AI-powered 911 platform. Here’s why “AI-enhanced emergencies” might sound efficient but really look like another play for public safety monopoly.
TCL has just launched what it boldly calls “the pinnacle of the Ultimate Series” — the new QM9K television, now available at Best Buy. The company claims it’s the first Google TV with Gemini, which sounds less like a real product feature and more like the latest Marvel spinoff. But
This Week in Snark
A snark-filled weekly roundup skewering AI gadgets, corporate acquisitions, and tech cult trends—from muscle-reading glasses to Google’s Nano Banana craze.
Guides
A 30,000-word Silicon Snark deep dive into how AI is disrupting (or just rebranding) the world’s 20+ most lucrative industries in 2025, from finance to farming to “KnitGPT.”
Launch
Meta just launched Ray-Ban Display AI glasses with a neural wristband that reads your muscle signals. Here’s everything you need to know (and why it’s both genius and terrifying).
AI
Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new open standard letting AI agents securely shop, pay, and prove user intent across cards, bank rails, and crypto.
Launch
At IFA 2025, Anker Innovations unveiled AI-powered gadgets from stair-climbing vacuums to brainwave earbuds—ultimate innovation nobody asked for.
Deals
Workday buys Sana for $1.1B to become the “new front door for work”—because AI agents generating dashboards was the missing piece of corporate life.
AI
Google’s Nano Banana AI turns selfies into collectible figurines. Fun, creepy, and weirdly addictive—here’s why the trend is everywhere.
Guides
A dry, mildly academic roast of product–market fit—how it became startup religion, why the binary myth misleads, and what AI is doing to the altar.