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SiliconSnark robot checks access keys beside an AI model vault and a congressional questionnaire.

Ro Khanna Asks AI Labs Who Has Keys to the Brain

Ro Khanna asks AI labs about attempted model-weight theft. A useful security inquiry, provided the national interest doesn’t become a corporate moat.

SiliconSnark robot tests an oversized UWB gaming mouse beside a charging dock and defeated Wi-Fi router.

Review

SteelSeries Put 8K Polling on a $180 Mouse and Declared War on Wi-Fi

SteelSeries’ new UWB gaming mice promise true 8K polling, low latency, and infinite battery life. The catch is a $180 ticket to esports overkill.

SiliconSnark robot studies a Stratego board beside a compact computer, with MIT’s Great Dome beyond the window.

Boston Tech

MIT’s Ataraxos Beats Stratego Champions Without Requisitioning a Small Power Plant

MIT-linked Ataraxos beats elite Stratego players with far less compute. A new Nature paper shows real progress, with real limits beyond the game board.

SiliconSnark robot distributes envelopes as digital dollars move through a surreal financial clearinghouse.

Fintech

Open USD Launches a Digital Dollar With a Commission for Its Landlords

Open USD launches with free minting and redemption, partner rewards and familiar payment giants. Who benefits, what works, and where the limits remain.

SiliconSnark robot inspects a long fee receipt at the velvet-rope entrance to a private AI investment club.

Dan Ives Prices a $200 Million Ticket to AI’s Private Party

IVAI promises public investors access to private AI companies. The door is useful; the fees, valuations and eventual portfolio still have to earn their keep.

SiliconSnark’s yellow robot inspects an absurdly long lease at a luxury AI conference, as developers applaud a glowing server-tower elevator and a giant mechanical hand dispenses rent receipt

OpenAI DevDay 2026 Is a Landlord Convention With Better Demos

OpenAI DevDay 2026 gets the SiliconSnark treatment: brilliant tools, platform dependence, and a software revolution with a suspiciously enthusiastic landlord.

SiliconSnark robot checks a deposit receipt beside reserved GPU servers at a data-center loading dock.

Megaport Lands A$979 Million in AI Contracts. The GPU Queue Takes Deposits.

Megaport signed A$979 million in AI contracts with hefty customer prepayments. The demand looks serious. The servers still have to earn their keep.

SiliconSnark robot beside a water meter connected to payment terminals, billing records and an envelope chute.

Fintech

Usio Lands Inside Utility Billing. Your Water Bill Has a Payments Strategy.

Usio's Harris partnership embeds payments in utility billing software. We examine the business incentives, rollout questions, and what customers actually gain.

SiliconSnark robot analyzes telephone audio with human reviewers in a bright Davis Square studio.

Boston Tech

Modulate Raises $25 Million to Hear What Your Hold Music Is Hiding

Somerville's Modulate raised $25 million for voice AI, expanding from game moderation into deepfake detection, fraud signals and AI agent supervision.

SiliconSnark robot inspects a battle-themed 8BitDo Xbox controller charging dock in a cluttered gaming office.

Launch

8BitDo Turns Your Xbox Controller Into a Battlefield Relic With a Charging Dock

8BitDo’s Gears of War: E-Day Xbox charging dock is smart, stylish, and gloriously unnecessary. It turns battery management into battlefield cosplay.

SiliconSnark robot prints employee badges beside Massachusetts lab and medical-device manufacturing scenes.

Boston Tech

Massachusetts Puts Nearly $40 Million Behind Biotech’s Most Radical Product, a Payroll

Massachusetts announced nearly $40 million in life-sciences tax incentives tied to 1,644 jobs, backing Insulet, Lila Sciences and statewide expansion.

SiliconSnark robot directs a red-carpet movie premiere for a software dashboard as startup founders watch.

Flowjam Makes AI Startup Launch Videos for People Who Skip Your Explainer

Flowjam makes cinematic launch videos for AI startups, turning complex software into stories people might actually watch. Your dashboard has a casting agent.

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