Guides
The Definitive 2026 Guide to GPTs, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Friends
A July 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, Meta AI, Mistral, open weights, coding agents, and AI companions.
AI
Meta Turned Rural Louisiana Into a $50 Billion AI Extension Cord
Meta expanded its Louisiana AI data center to 5 gigawatts and more than $50 billion. The scale is real, the local upside is real, and the utility politics are just warming up.
AI
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 Turns the Llama Shop Into a Toll Booth
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 and a public Model API preview, taking its AI strategy from open-model halo to paid agentic infrastructure.
AI
Meta Turns Brain Waves Into Text. The Helmet Still Deserves Top Billing.
Meta’s Brain2Qwerty decodes typed sentences from noninvasive brain signals. The science is real, the patient upside is real, and the helmet is not exactly AirPods.
Consumer Tech
Meta Glasses Dropped Ray-Ban and Put Kylie Jenner on the Camera Problem
Meta launched $299 Meta Glasses with Kylie Jenner, Muse Spark AI, and no Ray-Ban badge. The hardware is clever. The trust problem is not.
Satire
Open Letter: Mark Zuckerberg, Please Stop Managing Engineers Like AI Livestock
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Meta engineering morale, AI reassignments, employee monitoring, layoffs, and how not to turn talent into revolt.
Big Tech
Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending $145 Billion on AI This Year. When Asked About the ROI, He Called It a “Very Technical Question.”
Meta smashed every earnings estimate, hiked its AI spending to $145 billion, and watched the stock drop 8% anyway. Zuckerberg’s explanation for the return on all that investment? “That’s a very technical question.”
Big Tech
Goodbye, Llama. Hello, Muse Spark — Meta's $14 Billion Bet on an AI That Contemplates
Mark Zuckerberg spent years insisting open-source AI was the future. Then he spent $14 billion on the opposite — and named it Muse Spark Contemplating.
Satire
Goodbye, Horizon Worlds
Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds—and I logged in one last time. This is the story of being the final user in a metaverse that was supposed to replace reality.
Deals
Meta Acquires Moltbook: Did Mark Zuckerberg Just Buy a Startup for the Publicity?
Meta’s acquisition of Moltbook is making headlines—but the biggest question might be whether the startup was bought for its product or for the story the deal tells.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Age Gates, AI Newsrooms, 300,000 Litter Boxes, and Other Signs of Progress
This week in tech snark: Roblox safety theater, AI in the newsroom, Meta’s metaverse flop, and why simplicity keeps beating hype.
Guides
The Rise and Fall of Reality Labs: How Meta Spent Billions to Invent a Metaverse Nobody Wanted
Meta bet tens of billions on the metaverse through Reality Labs. This is the snarky deep dive into how it rose, stalled, and quietly pivoted to AI.