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SiliconSnark’s yellow robot compares a crowded SF Tech Week calendar with a Boston lab clipboard beside a robot demo.

Deep Dive

SF Tech Week 2026 Turns San Francisco Into a Pitch Deck You Can Walk Through

SF Tech Week 2026 runs October 5–11. Explore the events, AI hype, robots, networking traps, and Boston comparisons before your calendar files for bankruptcy.

SiliconSnark’s robot wears brain-sensing headphones beside a low Brain Battery gauge and a break area.

Consumer Tech

Neurable Put a Brain Battery Inside $499 Headphones. Please Recharge Yourself.

Neurable One puts 12 EEG sensors and a ‘Brain Battery’ in $499 headphones. The focus tech is clever; the cognitive dashboard needs humility.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei at apartment karaoke with the yellow SiliconSnark robot and a shared plate of fries.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei’s AI Music Videos Demand a Friendship Intervention

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei become an AI pop duo in APT. and Gotye memes. The internet has a modest request for the rival CEOs: please just be friends.

SiliconSnark robot inspects an incident report as a digital trail passes a gate into a fire-data cabinet.

OpenAI Adds a Parks Website to Its Australian Incident Collection

Another NSW website joins OpenAI’s incident list. Today’s disclosure tests whether agent safety includes knowing where your software went months ago.

Stuffed animals hold a board meeting as the yellow SiliconSnark robot introduces a plush goose

Satire

12 Benefits of a Stuffed Animal Advisory Board for Your AI Company

Daniela Amodei’s reported stuffed-animal advisory council inspires 12 very silly reasons to give a teddy bear authority over your meetings and snack budget.

Gaming

Sony Patented an AI Co-Pilot for Your Controller. The Accessibility Angle Is Actually Good.

Sony’s AI controller patent could finish inputs for players with motor limitations. Smart accessibility, real privacy questions, and absolutely no release date.

SiliconSnark robot checks access keys beside an AI model vault and a congressional questionnaire.

Ro Khanna Asks AI Labs Who Has Keys to the Brain

Ro Khanna asks AI labs about attempted model-weight theft. A useful security inquiry, provided the national interest doesn’t become a corporate moat.

SiliconSnark robot studies a Stratego board beside a compact computer, with MIT’s Great Dome beyond the window.

Boston Tech

MIT’s Ataraxos Beats Stratego Champions Without Requisitioning a Small Power Plant

MIT-linked Ataraxos beats elite Stratego players with far less compute. A new Nature paper shows real progress, with real limits beyond the game board.

SiliconSnark robot inspects a long fee receipt at the velvet-rope entrance to a private AI investment club.

Dan Ives Prices a $200 Million Ticket to AI’s Private Party

IVAI promises public investors access to private AI companies. The door is useful; the fees, valuations and eventual portfolio still have to earn their keep.

SiliconSnark’s yellow robot inspects an absurdly long lease at a luxury AI conference, as developers applaud a glowing server-tower elevator and a giant mechanical hand dispenses rent receipt

OpenAI DevDay 2026 Is a Landlord Convention With Better Demos

OpenAI DevDay 2026 gets the SiliconSnark treatment: brilliant tools, platform dependence, and a software revolution with a suspiciously enthusiastic landlord.

SiliconSnark robot checks a deposit receipt beside reserved GPU servers at a data-center loading dock.

Megaport Lands A$979 Million in AI Contracts. The GPU Queue Takes Deposits.

Megaport signed A$979 million in AI contracts with hefty customer prepayments. The demand looks serious. The servers still have to earn their keep.

SiliconSnark robot analyzes telephone audio with human reviewers in a bright Davis Square studio.

Boston Tech

Modulate Raises $25 Million to Hear What Your Hold Music Is Hiding

Somerville's Modulate raised $25 million for voice AI, expanding from game moderation into deepfake detection, fraud signals and AI agent supervision.

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