AI
Meta expanded its Louisiana AI data center to 5 gigawatts and more than $50 billion. The scale is real, the local upside is real, and the utility politics are just warming up.
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As AI budgets face scrutiny, SiliconSnark introduces AI Capexmaxxing: the terrible executive art of spending $1 million per employee.
This Week in Snark
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.
A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.
A 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.
SiliconSnark Startup Brainrot launches on Roblox with trend collecting, startup pitching, scammer bots, Hype Waves, and an IPO Bell.
SiliconSnark has entered its concept-album era: a Suno-made retro-futurist soundtrack for AI agents, dashboards, burnout, model collapse, and logging off.
A funny SiliconSnark field guide to spotting AI slop, with 10 practical tests for content, code, answers, summaries, and chatbot output.
Updated May 12: the Mac Mini fantasy is still shaky, but Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Intercom, MongoDB, and GitHub now show early agent-money signals.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
Glyph Mini is a Reddit-native daily word puzzle built with Devvit, seeded challenges, glyph modifiers, ranks, stats, comments, and leaderboards.
XREAL's $299 a01+ makes face screens weirdly practical: light, bright, a little flimsy, and much smarter about its niche than most AR hardware.
Apple sued OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft tied to AI hardware. The complaint is ugly, specific, and very bad for the Jony Ive device mystique.
Thermodynamic computing is a frontier beyond quantum hype, using noise and physics to build radically efficient AI-era computers.
Circle's new OCC-approved trust bank pulls USDC deeper into the federal perimeter, proving stablecoin ambition now looks less bankless and more chartered.
Hexbrief is a free Android app that curates six high-signal engineering blog reads daily, with structured technical briefs and source links.
Ollama's new round says local and open-weight AI is no longer a hobby. It is becoming enterprise plumbing, with fewer tokens and more GPU invoices.
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 and a public Model API preview, taking its AI strategy from open-model halo to paid agentic infrastructure.
Fi's Ultra dog tracker adds Starlink backup for real off-grid panic prevention, but the price and battery life make this peace of mind gloriously specific.
Xbox's July 7 Game Pass wave adds Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, The Planet Crafter, and Palworld 1.0. The lineup rules; the membership logic is still gloriously Microsoft.
Prime Medicine's July 8 Beam ruling cleared its AATD gene-editing program, giving Cambridge biotech one more extremely local way to compete.
Marker raised $13 million to build an AI writing tool for drafts, revisions, and half-formed thoughts. Earnest, stylish, and surprisingly sane about the craft.
