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
cybersecurity
Google’s New Security Report: “Android Safe, iPhone … Less So”
Google’s latest security blog claims Android beats iPhone at stopping scams — but beneath the “independent studies” and AI buzzwords lies a masterclass in self-promotion.
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.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Glasses That Read Your Muscles, Bananas That Aren’t Bananas, and the Death of the Office Door
A snark-filled weekly roundup skewering AI gadgets, corporate acquisitions, and tech cult trends—from muscle-reading glasses to Google’s Nano Banana craze.
AI
Google Invents a Protocol So Your AI Can Buy Stuff Without Stealing Your Credit Card (Allegedly)
Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new open standard letting AI agents securely shop, pay, and prove user intent across cards, bank rails, and crypto.
AI
Google’s Nano Banana Craze: From Selfie to Weird 3D Figurine in Seconds
Google’s Nano Banana AI turns selfies into collectible figurines. Fun, creepy, and weirdly addictive—here’s why the trend is everywhere.
Launch
Pixel 10 Release: The $1,199 Way to Prove You’re Still Google’s Favorite Beta Tester
Snarky Pixel 10 review skewering Google’s latest AI-packed smartphone, from gimmicky Magic Cue to Camera Coach that critiques your selfies.
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.