This Week in Snark - SiliconSnark (Page 2)

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.

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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.

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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.

The SiliconSnark robot holds a broken evil detector and two identical AI joint venture contracts

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This Week in Snark: Musk's Evil Detector, Twin AI Joint Ventures, and the $100B Emoji Intervention

Elon Musk's evil detector had a confusing week. OpenAI and Anthropic independently invented the same company. And GPT-5.5's headline feature is fewer 🚀s. Welcome to May.

he SiliconSnark robot presides over a chaotic boardroom scene representing the week's biggest stories

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This Week in Snark: The AGI Clause Got a Quiet Funeral, $145 Billion Is a Very Technical Question, and Your Repo Has a New Roommate

OpenAI declared independence from Microsoft, Zuckerberg called $145B in AI spending "a very technical question," and the NSA used the banned AI anyway. Normal week, really.

he SiliconSnark robot stares at a chalkboard covered in contradictory AI valuations and version numbers

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This Week in Snark: GPT-5.5 Already, Anthropic’s Trillion-Dollar Math Problem, and Bezos Names a Lab After a Tortured Greek Myth

The AI industry spent April 21–25 doing math in public and getting different answers every time. New model. New valuation. New titan. Same general vibe.

The SiliconSnark robot holds a sneaker next to a GPU rack while a second humanoid robot imitates its tennis swing, with a Factory shipping crate in the background.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Allbirds Becomes a Data Center, Factory Replaces Your Engineers, and Apple Tells Anything It Can Do Nothing

A shoe brand sold its soles for GPUs. A startup named Factory raised $150M to automate your job. And Apple banned an app called "Anything." Twice.

The SiliconSnark robot presides over an alliance meeting between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, holding a gavel at a dramatic conference table.

This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: The AI Supervillain Alliance, Meta Kills Its Llama, and Eight Cents to Watch the Watchers

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic joined forces this week — against a common enemy who learned everything from them. Meanwhile, Meta quietly buried its open-source identity.

A grinning SiliconSnark robot presents a chaotic futuristic newsroom where AI media deals, space satellites, screenless wearables, and billion-dollar startups collide.

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This Week in Snark: Sam Altman's Favorite Podcast, 88,000 Satellites, and the Fitbit That Gave Up on Screens

Sam bought his favorite show. Google invented a Fitbit without a screen. And someone strapped a Bitcoin miner to a rocket. Standard week, really.

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