This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: AI Fear Training, Capitalist Chips, and the Joy of Not Using Prompts
This Week in Snark covers AI irony, Nvidia’s $5T milestone, Amazon layoffs, UTime’s health tech, and SiliconSnark’s new Zero-Prompt Zone
AI
Amazon’s Latest Layoff Plans Prove the AI Experiment Is Going Swell
Amazon is reportedly planning to lay off 30,000 corporate employees as part of its AI-driven efficiency push.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: When Clouds Buy Furniture, Browsers Gain Brains, and Meta Builds a Home for Your Future AI Boss
This Week in Snark dives into the absurdity of modern tech — from AI browsers and data centers for robots to clouds that buy furniture and PowerPoints predicting humanity’s unemployment.
AI
AWS Outage 2025: When Amazon’s Cloud Sneezed and the Internet Caught a Cold
Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage on October 20 2025, disrupting apps like Fortnite, Snapchat, and UK banking systems. Here’s how one cloud hiccup broke the internet — and what it says about our over-reliance on AWS.
Satire
Holiday Gift Guide: Trade War Edition (Satire)
Here’s your exclusive early look at what holiday tech shopping will cost this year, assuming you’re not smuggling goods inside taxidermied alpacas.
Amazon
Amazon Unveils AI That Clicks Buttons, Calls It Innovation
In its latest attempt to convince the world it's not trailing behind OpenAI, Google, or xAI, Amazon has unveiled Amazon Nova.
Amazon
Alexa+ Is Here: Amazon’s Plan to Make You Pay for the Voice Assistant You Already Own
Amazon launches Alexa+, a $19.99/month generative AI voice assistant with memory, smart home automation, and the new Echo Show 21. Here’s what’s new, how it works, and whether it’s worth it.