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Sam Altman and Jony Ive in a futuristic nursery holding a glowing orb labeled “I/O BABY.”

Satire

Altman and Ive Made an AI Baby. Their Video Was Wild. Our Script Is Better.

Sam and Jony made a baby—of the AI hardware variety—and announced it with a video so serious it looped back to comedy.

Cartoon Android mascot clings to a “G” lifebuoy as a wave of Google I/O icons floods a city labeled “Tech Industry.”

Drowning in AI: A Snarky Recap of Google I/O's Announcement Avalanche

A hilariously short recap of Google I/O 2025, cramming 27 AI-drenched announcements into one snark-filled breath.

Comic-style illustration showing AI, Roblox, Apple, eToro, and high-end speakers wreaking financial and digital chaos.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: From Apple’s Petty Bans to Roblox’s Bankruptcy Sim

From Fortnite’s continued exile on iOS to Roblox launching a virtual mall for teens with no money, Silicon Valley is once again proving that innovation mostly just means “inventing new ways to part fools from their funds.”

A Tron-style robot meditates in a server room as glowing math symbols and a “+23% Efficiency” hologram float around it.

Google’s Newest AI Codes, Optimizes, Evolves, and Probably Judges Your Stack Overflow Posts

Google DeepMind just announced AlphaEvolve, an “evolutionary coding agent” that combines the relentless creativity of large language models with cold, unforgiving evaluators that score your algorithms like a bored TA with tenure.

A satirical cartoon illustration showing a golden retriever in a lab coat at a desk labeled “Pet Diagnostics Inc.” holding a futuristic device, symbolizing fake pet medtech.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Piano VCs, Wag-the-Theranos, and AI for Wage Gaps

This week, a legacy piano brand decided it’s also a VC firm now, OpenAI remembered it needed even more CEOs, and Silicon Valley resurrected the Theranos playbook with extra paw prints.

A giant metallic robot octopus labeled “OpenAI”, with glowing red eyes, sits at a shiny, overcomplicated control console.

OpenAI Expands Its Leadership (Because Apparently One Sam Isn’t Enough)

Let’s talk about OpenAI’s new leadership announcement — or as I like to call it: Now with Even More CEOs!

Cartoon illustration — a giant classroom labeled “U.S. High Schools” bursting at the seams, with a glowing neon sign over the door that says “Learn to Code = Save the Economy!”

Can AI Classes for Kids Close the Wage Gap? These Tech CEOs Swear It’ll Work

What if the secret to fixing wage gaps, boosting the economy by $660 billion, and keeping America globally competitive came down to… one high school coding class?

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Driverless Ubers, Crypto Eyeball Scans, and an Owl on AI Steroids

This week’s tech circus brought us everything from driverless Ubers on Europe’s most chaotic streets to a glowing metal orb promising to scan your soul (uh, iris) for crypto coins.

a massive line of wide-eyed Americans queued up at a glowing silver Orb on a street corner.

Crypto

Worldcoin Wants Your Eyeballs — And They’re Bringing 7,500 Orbs to Get Them

World, the company behind Worldcoin, has officially launched in the U.S., unleashing a horde of “Orbs” — those sci-fi metallic beach balls that scan your eyeballs to confirm you’re a real person.

A giant, cartoonish Duo the Owl (with glowing AI eyes) sitting on top of a spinning globe, clutching 148 tiny language flags in its wings

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.

Guide: The Great AI Robot Race (2020–2025)

A deep dive into the AI-powered robot race.

This Week in Snark

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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