This Week in Snark: Acquisitions, Constitutions, and a Grill That Knows More Than You Do
This Week in Snark covers Nvidia’s GTC 2026 rumors, Capital One’s Brex deal, AI constitutions, smart grills, stealth mega-funding, and Greenland’s tech scene.
Brex
Capital One Acquires Brex: Founder Mode, Meet McLean, Virginia
Capital One is buying Brex for $5.15B, merging AI-native fintech ambition with big-bank scale—and proving fintech’s future lives inside banks.
Brex Discovers What Every Startup Eventually Does: The Real Money Is in Big Corporations
Brex, the fintech darling that once prided itself on being the go-to spend platform for plucky startups, is now fully basking in the glow of its large enterprise era.