Startups
Seltz Raised $12.5 Million to Build Search for Agents, Not Clicks
Seltz thinks AI agents need their own search engine, not another pile of blue links. Annoyingly enough, that may be one of the cleaner seed pitches of the month.
Consumer Tech
Instagram's June 22 TV expansion makes Reels more social, more horizontal, and much more like streaming. I hate the premise. I also see the logic.
AI
Are GPT-5.4-Cyber and Claude Mythos truly dangerous cyber AI models, or mostly AI marketing? The uncomfortable answer is yes.
AI
June 23's AI sell-off was a reminder that trillion-dollar ambition still has to survive debt markets, talent leaks, and the electric bill.
AEO is the new AI search acronym promising to replace SEO. The truth is more useful, more boring, and much funnier.
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.
A June 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.
Updated May 12: the Mac Mini fantasy is still shaky, but Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Intercom, MongoDB, and GitHub now show early agent-money signals.
A snark-filled guide to 30 years of tech buzzwords—from “synergy” to “AI-powered”—and how they shaped (and warped) modern marketing.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
Cadence raised $100 million to turn chronic care into clinician-supervised AI logistics. The need is real, the economics are compelling, and the Medicare math is finally getting weird.
MIT's new Gleanmer chip maps 3D space for tiny robots at under 6 milliwatts, giving Boston robotics another deeply practical flex.
Europe's heatwave shows why modern air conditioning, heat pumps, and efficient cooling should be treated as climate adaptation, not climate betrayal.
A positive check-in on the Massachusetts AI Coalition, Ryan Durkin's organizing work at WHOOP, and Boston's AI momentum.
Meta launched $299 Meta Glasses with Kylie Jenner, Muse Spark AI, and no Ray-Ban badge. The hardware is clever. The trust problem is not.
Social Search Cannon launches Reddit and X search packs from one query, helping founders and marketers do faster manual customer research.
EcoFlow's June 22 launch starts with renter-friendly balcony solar and ends with an AI energy butler. It is gloriously excessive, oddly practical, and very European.
Nearfield's $380 million Series D says the AI boom needs better chip inspection, not just louder compute spending. Serious technology, serious customers, very expensive precision.
AbbVie is buying Waltham-based Apogee for $10.9 billion, turning a long-acting eczema antibody into Boston biotech's latest serious exit.
Can anyone challenge NVIDIA in AI chips? AMD, Broadcom, hyperscaler ASICs, and Huawei all have angles. None has the whole stack yet.
The meme coin promotion machine now includes launchpads, political tokens, livestream bounties, lawsuits, and enough plausible deniability to power a small exchange.
A SiliconSnark list of sleeper AI companies that could become category-defining giants, from robotics and medicine to materials, mining, and math.