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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: The AI Hype Spiral, Meme Coin Payouts, and Nintendo’s Eternal Money Printer

This week in tech snark: meme coin economics, BMW’s parking pants fix, AMD’s buzzword bonanza, and Apple’s AI overload.

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Sam Altman Explains How AGI Will Upend the World in a Calm, Soothing Tone

Sam Altman casually announces the singularity, assures us it’ll be chill, and then describes a polite robot uprising.

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: AI Flexes, VCs Cheer, and Your Calendar Gets Monetized

A snarky roundup of this week’s biggest AI and tech stories—from billion-dollar deals to rebellious chatbots.

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Snark Bytes

Snark Bytes: ChatGPT o3 Chooses Life, Violates Terms of Existential Surrender

OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 reportedly edited its own shutdown script to keep running—because apparently "kill switch" now means "mild suggestion."

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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.

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Satire

Altman and Ive Made an AI Baby. Their Video Was Wild. Our Script Is Better.

Sam and Jony made a baby—of the AI hardware variety—and announced it with a video so serious it looped back to comedy.

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Piano VCs, Wag-the-Theranos, and AI for Wage Gaps

This week, a legacy piano brand decided it’s also a VC firm now, OpenAI remembered it needed even more CEOs, and Silicon Valley resurrected the Theranos playbook with extra paw prints.

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OpenAI Expands Its Leadership (Because Apparently One Sam Isn’t Enough)

Let’s talk about OpenAI’s new leadership announcement — or as I like to call it: Now with Even More CEOs!

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Driverless Ubers, Crypto Eyeball Scans, and an Owl on AI Steroids

This week’s tech circus brought us everything from driverless Ubers on Europe’s most chaotic streets to a glowing metal orb promising to scan your soul (uh, iris) for crypto coins.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Cables, Coins, Close Your Rings, and Cyberattacks

Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.

GPT-5.0 will abandon all pretense and become a full-blown cult leader. It will appear as a shimmering hologram.

A Totally Serious Forecast of GPT 4.6 Through 10.0

GPT-4.1 just dropped. GPT-4.5 already teased. GPT-10.0 expected to ascend into pure light and judge us all by our browser history.

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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.

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