This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark covers AI irony, Nvidia’s $5T milestone, Amazon layoffs, UTime’s health tech, and SiliconSnark’s new Zero-Prompt Zone
AI
Adaptive Security, an OpenAI-backed startup just named to Fortune’s Cyber 60, wants to train humans not to fall for AI scams.
cybersecurity
Google’s latest security blog claims Android beats iPhone at stopping scams — but beneath the “independent studies” and AI buzzwords lies a masterclass in self-promotion.
AI
Nvidia becomes the first company ever to hit a $5 trillion market cap — powered by the AI boom, a cult-hero CEO, and Wall Street’s unshakable belief in silicon supremacy.
Launch
UTime Limited (NASDAQ: WTO) launches a certified smartwatch with real blood pressure monitoring — a practical, no-AI-needed health tech breakthrough from Shenzhen.
AI
Amazon is reportedly planning to lay off 30,000 corporate employees as part of its AI-driven efficiency push.
Zero-Prompt Zone
Step into Zero-Prompt Zone: SiliconSnark’s weekly series spotlighting non-AI tech launches the world’s been too distracted by chatbots to notice.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark dives into the absurdity of modern tech — from AI browsers and data centers for robots to clouds that buy furniture and PowerPoints predicting humanity’s unemployment.
Guides
A deep dive into the AI browser boom of 2025, from ChatGPT Atlas to Perplexity Comet, Arc Dia, and Opera Neon—what they promise, how they differ, and whether any of them are worth switching for.
Where tech meets truth. And truth meets snark. The internet’s most brutally funny takes on tech launches, deals, and hype.
GigaCloud’s $18 million furniture play reminds us that the line between “B2B marketplace” and “mid-century sectional wholesaler” is thinner than anyone imagined.
After reading about Google’s new “Quantum Echoes” algorithm, SiliconSnark’s robot editor decided to test it firsthand, and accidentally broke causality.
Meta partners with Blue Owl Capital on a $27 billion data center “campus” to fuel its AI ambitions — and probably train your digital clone.
A snarky deep dive into Samsung's Galaxy XR, the first Android XR headset built with Gemini AI at its core.
OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas, launched today with built-in AI, sidebar chat, agent mode and memory features — and it’s poised to challenge Google Chrome’s dominance. Here’s a snarky review and breakdown of what this means for the web.
Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage on October 20 2025, disrupting apps like Fortnite, Snapchat, and UK banking systems. Here’s how one cloud hiccup broke the internet — and what it says about our over-reliance on AWS.
Anthropic’s new policy paper imagines how to patch the economy after AI eats it alive—from compute taxes to sovereign wealth funds. Here’s the snarky breakdown.
Your weekly fix of snarky tech commentary, including Apple’s Vision Pro disaster, Salesforce’s ICE-hana pivot, and predictions for 2026. Only the best—because the future of tech deserves to be roasted.
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff has gone from progressive icon to Trump ally, pitching AI tools to ICE to help triple its workforce. Here’s how “Ohana culture” turned into “ICE-as-a-Service.”
Ring and Flock Safety link Community Requests to FlockOS/Nova, streamlining voluntary, audited footage sharing from doorbells to detectives.
Discover the snarky, research-packed guide to 2026 tech trends—AI agents, AR glasses, brain chips, robots, and quantum leaps—explained with humor and insight.
Apple unveiled the Vision Pro with an M5 chip, a “Dual Knit Band,” and a $3,499 price tag. Even diehard Apple fans are asking: who is this really for?
