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
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.
Deals
Workday Acquires Sana: Super Workers, AI Dashboards, and the Death of the Old Office Door
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 Craze: From Selfie to Weird 3D Figurine in Seconds
Google’s Nano Banana AI turns selfies into collectible figurines. Fun, creepy, and weirdly addictive—here’s why the trend is everywhere.
AI
Microsoft and OpenAI Announce a Memorandum of Understanding, Which Is Fancy Talk for “We’ll Get Back to You Later”
Microsoft and OpenAI announced a non-binding MOU with just 47 words — here’s an 800-word snarky breakdown of what the shortest press release in tech history really means.