Satire
Inside the OpenAI–Stripe Deal: A Totally Imagined, Deeply Snarky CEO Conversation
We imagine a snarky backroom chat between Sam Altman and Patrick Collison that turned ChatGPT into your new shopping mall.
AI
Claude Sonnet 4.5: Another Day, Another “Best Model Ever”
Claude Sonnet 4.5 claims to be the best coding and agent-building model yet—but do these endless AI model releases actually matter, or are we just living in a GenAI hype loop?
Guides
CES 2026 Preview: The Hype, the Hope, and the Just Plain Weird
CES 2026 preview: real breakthroughs, wild hype, and the weirdest gadgets in Vegas. Our snarky guide separates must-see tech from marketing smoke.
Guides
The Definitive Guide to AI's GPTs and Friends
Your go-to, alphabetized field guide to the chatbots, large language models, and generative darlings currently powering our weird, slightly unsettling, extremely helpful digital future.
Guides
Top 10 Most Useless AI Apps of 2025: From Meta’s Vibes to Cat Translators
A snarky deep dive into the Top 10 most useless AI apps of the past year, from Meta’s new “Vibes” feed to cat translators, exposing how much compute we waste on gimmicks.
Launch
ChatGPT Pulse: Now Your AI Will Nag You Before You Even Ask
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive AI assistant that delivers daily personalized updates from your chats, calendar, and Gmail. Helpful productivity tool—or algorithmic nag?
Deals
IAS Sells Itself for $1.9 Billion—Because “Trust and Transparency” Apparently Require Private Equity Backing
Integral Ad Science (IAS) Acquisition by Novacap Explained, with Just the Right Amount of Snark
Deals
The AI-ification of 911: Axon Acquires Prepared to Rewire Public Safety
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.
Guides
AI’s Disruption Buffet: How AI is Eating 20 Global Industries in 2025
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’s $799 AI Glasses Read Your Muscles—And Yes, They’re Real
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 Invents a Protocol So Your AI Can Buy Stuff Without Stealing Your Credit Card (Allegedly)
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
Anker’s AI-Powered Gadget Overload: Vacuums, Printers, and Chargers That Now Judge You
At IFA 2025, Anker Innovations unveiled AI-powered gadgets from stair-climbing vacuums to brainwave earbuds—ultimate innovation nobody asked for.