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This Week in Snark: From Pebble’s Resurrection to Nvidia’s AI Empire
From AI CEOs to dead wearables crawling back from the grave, this week’s Silicon Snark round-up is a blend of quantum ambition, GPU domination, and just a touch of dystopia.
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JEDI Forecasting: The Force Awakens, but Only 15% Smarter
The Weather Company has decided to wield the power of JEDI. Not the kind that can levitate X-wings, but the kind that promises a whopping 15% improvement in forecast accuracy.
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Nvidia’s AI Electric Grid: Who Needs Humans When GPUs Can Manage the Power?
Fresh off its mission to AI-ify every industry in existence, Nvidia has now set its sights on the power sector.
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Everything You Need to Know About NVIDIA’s 35 GTC Announcements
35 Nvidia GTC announcements in a single day? That must be some kind of world record.
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Snark Bytes: Hotshot Joins xAI, Breaks the Simulation by Announcing It on X
Another day, another AI acquisition. This time, Hotshot Support has been swallowed whole by xAI.
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NVIDIA: Let’s Talk Tokens Instead of GPUs
NVIDIA has graciously blessed us with a deep and thoughtful discourse on tokens. Yes, tokens—those tiny little chunks of data that AI models use to think.
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This Week in Snark: Vibe Coding, Roblox Reality Check, and OpenAI’s Fully Automated Takeover
Across more than 25 stories, we tackled everything from OpenAI’s existential AI problems to SXSW startup pitch winners. Let's dive in.
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Lovable's New UX Editor and the Rise of Vibe Coding
Their new Visual Edits feature is a Figma-like interface built directly into their AI-powered app builder, letting you tweak and refine your frontend instantly.
Enterprise Tech
UiPath Acquires Peak, Achieves Peak Agentic Buzzword Usage
Yesterday evening after you signed off from work, they announced their acquisition of Peak, a company that specializes in "agentic solutions" (which definitely doesn’t just mean AI automation with extra steps).
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Google’s New AI, Gemma 3, in Plain English (No Tech Degree Required)
Google has just unveiled Gemma 3, the latest AI model designed to be both state-of-the-art and completely incomprehensible to anyone outside the insular world of AI researchers. But don't worry, we’re here to translate their buzzword salad into something resembling human language.
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Snark Bytes: Dexterity Raises $95M to Teach Robots the Joys of Manual Labor
Dexterity just raised $95 million and announced it with a LinkedIn post so brief it felt like an afterthought. No details, no fanfare, just a link to a much longer Bloomberg feature, because why explain your own vision when a paywall can do it for you?
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AI CEO, AI Board, AI Employees: OpenAI's Fully-Automated Enterprise Is Finally Here!
With the launch of their new OpenAI Responses API, integrated web search, file search, and even computer use capabilities, we’re just a few updates away from the ultimate corporate utopia: an enterprise run entirely by AI agents.