This Week in Snark - SiliconSnark

The SiliconSnark robot gets a full-back tattoo reading "the demo is never the hard part" surrounded by icons of the week's tech stories.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Back Tattoos, Base Reactors, and a $249 Necklace That Would Like to Be Your God

Seven people got tattoos for a job interview that was already free. That was only the fourth-strangest thing tech did this week.

The SiliconSnark robot testifies in a Washington hearing room while guarding a glowing hard drive labeled "Weights."

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This Week in Snark: Numbers Go to Washington, Xbox Sells Ads Before the Boss Fight, and the AI Revolution Asks If You'd Like That as a PDF

Thirty-five companies asked Washington to please protect a file. Xbox invented the pre-roll dungeon. And Google mapped 15 million AI chats to find a robot mostly making bullet points.

The SiliconSnark robot despairs at a perfect PowerPoint preview next to its mangled real file, as a moving robot and delivery drone pass by outside.

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This Week in Snark: Fable 5 Loses to PowerPoint, Hyundai Buys the Whole Robot, and Your Dinner Files for an IPO

Fable 5 lost a fight with PowerPoint, Hyundai bought the rest of the robot dog, and dinner raised $650 million. The machines are doing great. The files, less so.

The SiliconSnark robot watches Apple and OpenAI lawyers argue over an unreturned laptop in court while a satellite tracks a dog outside.

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This Week in Snark: Apple's Lawyers, Government-Approved Chatbots, and a Dog With Satellite Internet

Apple sued OpenAI, Washington chaperoned a model launch, and your dog got Starlink. The future arrived this week — it just had to clear customs first.

The SiliconSnark robot watches a July 4th fireworks show interrupted by a giant glowing terms-of-service scroll in the sky.

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This Week in Snark: America Pre-Books Its 500th Birthday, Meta Starts Reading Minds, and a Lobster Gets a Data Plan

SiliconSnark previews America's dystopian 500th birthday, watches Meta decode brainwaves, and gives a self-hosted AI lobster its own phone plan. Freedom, it turns out, needs an app.

The SiliconSnark robot holds a giant receipt at a data-center cash register as chips, GPUs, and a humanoid robot wait in line.

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This Week in Snark: The GPU Mortgage Comes Due, Memory Becomes Money, and Robots Learn to Fear Paperwork

OpenAI flinched at its own IPO, Micron printed software margins on RAM, and the robots learned to fear a safety review. The AI bill has arrived.

The SiliconSnark robot watches an arrivals board announce Noam Shazeer's transfer from Google to OpenAI while executives on both sides react with shock.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: OpenAI's $2.7B Talent Heist, Zuckerberg's Engineer Ranch, and Snap Accidentally Cosplaying Us

OpenAI poached Google's crown jewel, Meta got a very public performance review, and Snap arrived wearing our robot's face. Another perfectly normal week.

SiliconSnark robot holds an OpenAI S-1 filing at a trading desk while a warehouse robot clocks in, a Deezer AI scan runs in the background, and a chipped soccer ball hovers nearby.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: OpenAI Goes to Wall Street, Robots Clock In, and Your Playlist Has Been Lying to You

OpenAI filed its S-1, humanoid robots showed up for warehouse shifts, and Deezer discovered 44 percent of your playlists may be synthetic. A week in AI that felt like several.

SiliconSnark robot stands between political podiums holding an AI equity document, surrounded by OpenAI branding, a DeepSeek funding check, and a vinyl copy of Agentic Summer.

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This Week in Snark: OpenAI Goes Public (Sort Of), DeepSeek Discovers Capitalism, and We Went Platinum

Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Sam Altman walked into a boardroom and somehow agreed on something. Also: we made a synth-pop album. It's been a week.

The SiliconSnark robot side-eyes a glowing KiroRank leaderboard while hovering over a delete button, a drive-thru speaker mounted on the wall behind it.

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This Week in Snark: Token Farmers, Drive-Thru Funnels, and a Boston Ecosystem That Needs a Nap

Amazon built a leaderboard to measure AI adoption. Employees gamed it until the cloud bill had feelings. Meanwhile, a startup made the drive-thru speaker into a growth hack.

SiliconSnark robot sits alone in an empty boardroom as an org chart transforms into an AI prompt window, surrounded by tech headlines from the week.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: AI Laid Off Your Coworkers, SpaceX Filed for $1.75 Trillion, and Google's Search Box Got Promoted

AI fired 8,000 people at Meta, SpaceX asked the public to fund Elon's everything-company, and Google's search box quietly decided it should be your manager now.

The SiliconSnark robot surrounded by a doubling Cerebras stock ticker, a wiggling Googlebook cursor, and a $1.1 billion check made out to Ineffable Intelligence.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Cerebras Goes Parabolic, Google Googles Its Laptop, and Ineffable Proves the Name Right

Cerebras doubled in a single morning, Google named its laptop after itself, and a British AI lab raised $1.1B for a product nobody's seen. Totally normal week.

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