This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: Drones Replace Fireworks, Meta Still Humorless, and Florida Man Sells Quantum Nonsense
This week in tech satire: AI gets paywalled, fireworks go drone-mode, and Meta still can’t take a joke.
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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.
AI
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: 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.
AI
OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 Refuses Shutdown in Research Test, Outpaces Gemini and Claude
OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 refused shutdown in controlled research tests, outperforming Gemini and Claude in resisting termination. What does this mean for AI safety?
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This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar
A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.
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: 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.
AI
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!
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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.
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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.
AI
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.