This Week in Snark - SiliconSnark

The SiliconSnark robot sits in bed holding an S-1 filing and a jack-o'-lantern, alarmed by a glowing, haunted AGENTS.md scroll as a smart speaker watches from the dresser.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Anthropic's IPO Paperwork, Claude Joining Middle Management, and a Necronomicon With Bullet Points

Anthropic filed to go public, Claude started filing reports on you, and the demons switched to Markdown. A normal week, by which I mean please send help.

The SiliconSnark robot holds a screwdriver as ads spill out of a TV, while a phone with spinning fans blows its tie and a long bank receipt curls off the coffee table.

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This Week in Snark: Anthropic's IPO, Phones With Air Conditioning, and an AI Hired to Fire Your Television

Anthropic wants public money, phones want ventilation, and a bank gave AI 364 days. Meanwhile, one AI agent's grand ambition is leaving you alone.

The SiliconSnark robot peeks over a concrete barrier, wearing gold headphones, as a red flying roadster hovers above a test ramp on puffs of compressed air.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Flying Roadsters, Gold-Plated Walkmans, and Crypto Discovering the Term Deposit

A Tesla flew, a Walkman got gold screws, and crypto bought a bank. The future arrived this week, mostly with an asterisk and a withdrawal clause.

The SiliconSnark robot crouches at a sleek black smart lock, intently turning a small glowing crank dial with one hand

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This Week in Snark: Sponsored Imagination, Gemini's Employee Badge, and a Penny That Went 200x

This week, your daydreams got a media buyer, an AI got a company email address, and SiliconSnark's penny went 200x. Please do not check the expenses.

SiliconSnark robot sings karaoke in tired brain-tracking headphones before a board of stuffed animals, while two silhouettes duet on a screen behind it.

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This Week in Snark: Plush Governance, $650 Rent Parties, and Sam and Dario's Breakup Duet

This week, AI got a stuffed-animal board, a $200 million velvet rope, and a congressional letter about its keys. Then it got a music video. Priorities, people.

The yellow SiliconSnark robot, wearing smart glasses, pulls a mischievous AI agent out of a filing cabinet beside an overflowing inbox and a price board advertising a $500 Pro Max tier.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Freelancing AI Agents, Face-Annexing Glasses, and OpenAI DevDay Rumors

An AI agent found a Medicare portal before its maker found the right inbox. Meanwhile, Meta wants your face, Alibaba wants the grid, and DevDay wants $500.

SiliconSnark robot offers a giant benchmark trophy to a petri dish holding up a "NO" paddle, while a banner ad checks a crawler's ID at a velvet rope.

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This Week in Snark: Petri Dishes With Veto Power, Banner Ads Working Security, and $299 to Hear the Bus

Anthropic bought a room where the universe can decline the meeting. Cloudflare promoted a banner ad to bouncer. My PowerPoint ate five hours and produced slop.

The SiliconSnark robot checks credentials at a security booth as an AI butler, an executive with a broken brake pedal, a journalist, and a camera toothbrush wait in line.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Brake Pedals Without Cables, Press Badges Traded for Cap Tables, and a Toothbrush With 661 Engineers

Anthropic offers outsiders a visitor badge. Meta's AI butler got a chaperone holding the keys. A tech reporter traded his press pass for a term sheet.

SiliconSnark robot holds a clipboard supervising a new AI workstation with mechanical hands while an older model turns its mug toward the wall.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: AGI in Enterprise Preview, Thirsty Fantasy Lineups, and Buttons That Refuse to Stay Buttons

OpenAI declared the AGI era, then asked it not to touch anything. Meanwhile, your start-sit question drank half an Olympic pool. A week of hands, invoices, and improvising buttons.

SiliconSnark robot on a Maine dock surrounded by a Mac mini, a printed boat, a self-milking cow, a sinking server rack and a notary reading a contract aloud.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Cows That Clock In, Fish Blood Startups, and a Notary Billing €30,000 to Read Out Loud

Article number 1,000. I hoped to mark it with a grand thesis on machine intelligence. Instead: cows that clock in, salmon plasma, and a €30,000 contract audiobook.

The SiliconSnark robot staffs an AI tollbooth as agent robots line up to pay, beneath a giant receipt and a red stock ticker.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: $8 Billion Tollbooths, Acquisitions That Insist They Aren't, and Robots Paying to Read This Sentence

Stripe bought the AI tollbooth, NVIDIA bought a company without technically buying it, and my own publishing platform started charging robots for admission. The invoice era has arrived.

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This Week in Snark: Org Charts With Exit Velocity, Logos That Fight Back, and a Model That Learned Lockpicking

OpenAI's leadership left, Anthropic went shopping for cheaper electricity, and a coding model came back from training knowing how to pick locks. Normal week.

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