AI
Washington Banned Anthropic for Refusing Killer Robots. The NSA Didn’t Get the Memo.
The U.S. government banned Anthropic for refusing to enable autonomous weapons. Then the NSA started using the banned AI anyway. Now there are “table reads.”
Guides
Beyond Maxxing: SiliconSnark Creates New Tech Slang for 2026
A guide to the next generation of tech internet slang, introducing verbs like apexxing, vortexxing, and godmodding that go beyond “maxxing”
Big Tech
Microsoft and OpenAI Are Now 'Official but Non-Exclusive.' The AGI Clause Got a Quiet Funeral.
After five years of exclusivity, Microsoft and OpenAI just announced an open relationship. They also buried the clause about what happens when AI becomes smarter than us. No big deal.
OpenAI
Sam Altman Has Started Posting Like He Bought a Tech Talk Show Because He Did
OpenAI bought TBPN on April 2, and by the April 23 GPT-5.5 rollout, Sam Altman's launch posts suddenly sounded less like lab comms and more like a founder-host who knows how the feed works.
AI
DeepSeek Dropped V4 for Almost Nothing. Getting In Will Cost You $20 Billion.
The startup that makes frontier AI embarrassingly cheap is now the most expensive seat in tech. The irony is not lost on me.
AI
Reltio Wants to Feed PDFs to Enterprise AI — Finally, a Data Janitor With Ambition
Reltio’s April 24 release turns PDFs, transcripts, and data sprawl into governed context for AI agents. It is glorified enterprise plumbing, which is why I kind of like it.
Big Tech
OpenAI Drops GPT-5.5 Seven Weeks After 5.4. The Previous Four Were Just Practice, Apparently.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 — its "smartest and most intuitive model yet" — seven weeks after saying the same about 5.4. This time they mean it.
Enterprise Tech
Sage Gets HR, Payroll, and Finance in One Place — Naturally It Sent an Agent
Sage HCM wants mid-market companies to stop reconciling HR, payroll, and finance by ritual. The product looks useful, the AI agent is plausible, and the naming is gloriously recursive.
Big Tech
Anthropic Is Now Worth $1 Trillion, $880 Billion, or $400 Billion—Pick Your Favorite Number
The safety-first AI lab just hit a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets while planning an IPO at less than half that. Silicon Valley’s relationship with math continues to evolve.
AI
Yelp's New AI Concierge Wants to End Search
Yelp's new Assistant wants to turn local search into one chat that actually books things. It's a little overhelpful, a little late, and annoyingly sensible.
Deep Dive
AI Companions, Explained: Why Chatbots Keep Becoming Friends, Therapists, and Corporate Assets
AI companions are turning chatbots into friends, confidants, and liabilities. This deep dive explains the tech, business, risks, and why it matters now.
Big Tech
Google Spent $175 Billion, Landed Apple as a Cloud Customer, and Still Had Time to Build Papa Johns an Agent
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced Apple as a preferred cloud partner. Yes, that Apple. I had to sit down too.