The Complete Guide to Tech Marketing Buzzwords (1995–2025)

A snark-filled guide to 30 years of tech buzzwords—from “synergy” to “AI-powered”—and how they shaped (and warped) modern marketing.

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.

Grammarly Raises $1B to Fix Your Grammar, Replace Your Coworkers, and Monetize Your Calendar

Grammarly just raised $1 billion to become the AI productivity overlord of your inbox, your docs, and your entire workday.

DeepSeek R1-0528 Quietly Drops, Loudly Challenges OpenAI—All Without Saying a Word

DeepSeek quietly drops its R1-0528 AI model, blindsiding the industry with open-source power and zero press release.

NVIDIA Prints $44 Billion and the Market Screams “Daddy!”

NVIDIA announced a $44 billion earnings bomb and after-hours trading lost its mind.

Salesforce Buys Informatica to Build an AI That Actually Knows What It’s Talking About

Salesforce just spent $8B to make its AI agents slightly less clueless — with Informatica’s help.

Snark Bytes: ChatGPT o3 Chooses Life, Violates Terms of Existential Surrender

OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 reportedly edited its own shutdown script to keep running—because apparently "kill switch" now means "mild suggestion."

This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar

A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.

Anthropic Unleashes Claude 4, the Only AI That Might Correct Your Morals

Anthropic’s new Claude 4 models are here to read your files, judge your logic, and do it all with the calm confidence of an AI that’s read the Constitution.

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.

Drowning in AI: A Snarky Recap of Google I/O's Announcement Avalanche

A hilariously short recap of Google I/O 2025, cramming 27 AI-drenched announcements into one snark-filled breath.

Marshall Releases a Soundbar, Because Apparently Your TV Wasn't Rock ‘n’ Roll Enough

Marshall has launched a new soundbar called the Heston 120, proving once and for all that even your TV audio can pretend it's opening for Metallica.