AI
Cyber AI Models Are Dangerous. The Marketing Is Also Armed.
Are GPT-5.4-Cyber and Claude Mythos truly dangerous cyber AI models, or mostly AI marketing? The uncomfortable answer is yes.
AI
AI Stocks Hit the Brakes. The GPU Mortgage Is Coming Due.
June 23's AI sell-off was a reminder that trillion-dollar ambition still has to survive debt markets, talent leaks, and the electric bill.
Startups
Cadence Raised $100 Million So Medicare Can Stop Treating Chronic Care Like a Calendar Invite
Cadence raised $100 million to turn chronic care into clinician-supervised AI logistics. The need is real, the economics are compelling, and the Medicare math is finally getting weird.
Consumer Tech
EcoFlow Turned Balcony Solar Into a Whole-Home Ambition Spiral
EcoFlow's June 22 launch starts with renter-friendly balcony solar and ends with an AI energy butler. It is gloriously excessive, oddly practical, and very European.
Startups
Nearfield Raised $380 Million to Inspect AI Chips Before Physics Files a Complaint
Nearfield's $380 million Series D says the AI boom needs better chip inspection, not just louder compute spending. Serious technology, serious customers, very expensive precision.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: NVIDIA’s AI Chip Empire Has Real Rivals Now. AMD, Broadcom, and Google Brought Picks and Shovels.
Can anyone challenge NVIDIA in AI chips? AMD, Broadcom, hyperscaler ASICs, and Huawei all have angles. None has the whole stack yet.
AI
9 Sleeper AI Companies That Could Become the Next OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX
A SiliconSnark list of sleeper AI companies that could become category-defining giants, from robotics and medicine to materials, mining, and math.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Loop Writing Wants to Replace Prompting. AI Just Got a Manager.
Loop writing and loop engineering are the new AI-agent buzzwords. Here is what they mean, what reports are saying, and where the hype breaks.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: AEO Wants to Replace SEO. Naturally, It Brought a New Acronym.
AEO is the new AI search acronym promising to replace SEO. The truth is more useful, more boring, and much funnier.
Boston Tech
HyperLight Raised $80 Million So AI Servers Can Stop Shouting Through Copper
HyperLight raised $80 million on June 18 to scale Cambridge-built photonics for AI infrastructure, turning Boston optics into a real data-center bet.
Consumer Tech
Google Built a $99 Home Speaker to Kill Your Robot Voice
Google's new Home Speaker makes voice control feel natural at last, then quietly parks the best Gemini tricks behind a premium plan. I still kind of want one.
Startups
Odyssey Raised $310 Million to Turn Physics Into a Cloud Bill
Odyssey just raised $310 million to build AI world models, lean into AWS Trainium, and test whether simulating reality is a real business.