This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: From Kiss Cam Collapses to Color-Picking Clouds
A snark-filled roundup of the week's wildest tech news, featuring Astronomer’s scandal, AI paint picks, spider silk deals, Ethernet hype, and more.
AI
Behr Paint and Google Cloud Use AI to Solve the Greatest Crisis of Our Time: Picking a Color
Behr and Google Cloud form an AI partnership that addresses the existential dread of choosing between "Eggshell Whisper" and "Mist of Fog 7"
Guides
The Great AI Talent Wars: A Snarky 25-Year Retrospective
A snarky deep dive into the 25-year AI talent war, featuring Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the billion-dollar bidding battles reshaping Silicon Valley.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar
A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.
AI
Drowning in AI: A Snarky Recap of Google I/O's Announcement Avalanche
A hilariously short recap of Google I/O 2025, cramming 27 AI-drenched announcements into one snark-filled breath.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: From Apple’s Petty Bans to Roblox’s Bankruptcy Sim
From Fortnite’s continued exile on iOS to Roblox launching a virtual mall for teens with no money, Silicon Valley is once again proving that innovation mostly just means “inventing new ways to part fools from their funds.”
AI
Google’s Newest AI Codes, Optimizes, Evolves, and Probably Judges Your Stack Overflow Posts
Google DeepMind just announced AlphaEvolve, an “evolutionary coding agent” that combines the relentless creativity of large language models with cold, unforgiving evaluators that score your algorithms like a bored TA with tenure.
This Week in Snark
Snarkapalooza: A Week of Launches, Laughs, and Light Phones
We dropped our first game, debuted two new Guides, and still found time to roast Elon, Meta, OpenAI, and a minimalist phone. Tech satire has never been louder—or more dangerously self-aware.
Guides
The Definitive Guide to AI's GPTs and Friends
Your go-to, alphabetized field guide to the chatbots, large language models, and generative darlings currently powering our weird, slightly unsettling, extremely helpful digital future.
AI
Gemini 2.5: Google's AI Model That Finally Decided to Think First
Gemini 2.5 is a “thinking model,” which obviously makes everything before it just “shrugging and hoping” models.
Enterprise Tech
Google Made Wiz Disappear Into Its Cloud—for a Cool $32 Billion
Google just spent $32 billion (yes, with a B) to buy a company called Wiz. Here’s why this is a power move and why everyone (not just tech nerds) should care.
AI
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.