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Duolingo’s AI Frenzy: 148 New Courses, or How to Make a Billion People Feel Guilty for Not Practicing
Duolingo just dropped its biggest flex yet: 148 new language courses, more than doubling its offerings in one AI-powered swoop.
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Guide: The Great AI Robot Race (2020–2025)
A deep dive into the AI-powered robot race.
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This Week in Snark: Courthouse Robots, AI Flip Phones, and IBM’s Money Printer
Robots are suing journalists, flip phones are getting AI makeovers, and IBM is cashing in on buzzwords — just another week in tech absurdity, recapped with maximum snark by SiliconSnark.
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One Small Step for Robots, One Giant Leap to the Courthouse for Figure.ai
After Fortune published a story suggesting Figure may have exaggerated its BMW "fleet," CEO Brett Adcock launched a legal threat, accusing the outlet of defamation and clickbait.
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Motorola Razr 2025: The AI-Powered Flip Phone Nobody Asked For (But Might Secretly Want)
Motorola Razr 2025 review: AI assistants, Pantone finishes, titanium hinges, and luxury nostalgia — here’s why the new flip phone is smarter (and pricier) than ever.
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IBM Q1 2025 Earnings: Boring, Profitable, and Proud of It
IBM Q1 2025 earnings show steady growth and strong margins. Here’s a snarky deep dive into IBM’s $14.5B revenue, AI strategy, HashiCorp acquisition, and what makes Big Blue boring—but unbeatable.
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Fireflies AI Expands From Meeting Notes to “Agentic AI” Productivity Chaos
Fireflies AI rebrands as an “agentic AI” productivity platform with 200+ apps for sales, recruiting, and operations. Here’s a snarky deep dive into its features, data privacy promises, and ambitious intern energy.
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WarrenAI: Investing.com’s New AI Financial Assistant Promises to Make You Rich (Or at Least Feel Like Warren Buffett)
Investing.com just launched WarrenAI—an AI-powered financial research tool claiming to “revolutionize investor analysis.” Here’s everything to know about the ChatGPT-for-Wall-Street experiment.
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This Week in Snark: Cables, Coins, Close Your Rings, and Cyberattacks
Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.
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Streaming the Machine: 18% of Music Now Pure Robot Vibes
In honor of Deezer’s bold revelation that 18% of all new music uploaded is fully AI-generated, we here at SiliconSnark thought: why not fight fire with fire.
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Say Hello to OpenAI's o3 and o4‑Mini, the AI Equivalent of That Friend Who Needs ‘Just One More Coffee’
OpenAI has released o3 and o4‑mini, its latest AI models that claim to be smarter, more “agentic,” and capable of juggling tools like a digital octopus with a PhD.
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A Totally Serious Forecast of GPT 4.6 Through 10.0
GPT-4.1 just dropped. GPT-4.5 already teased. GPT-10.0 expected to ascend into pure light and judge us all by our browser history.