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HubSpot Brings Back Brian Halligan to Refound a Startup With 311,000 Customers
Brian Halligan returns as HubSpot CEO to refound the Cambridge software company. Yamini Rangan’s record and one AI billing rule complicate the comeback.
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Ari Kuschnir turns AI sales pitches into late-night infomercials. Inside the filmmaker’s Open Living, Nadir, and the genius of a very well-heated pool.
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Malaysia is checking whether Speedmatrix re-exported AI chips. A government visit can establish what was in the rack. The loading dock has the sequel.
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Google and Samsung’s $395 AI glasses are stylish, useful, and unusually serious about privacy. Translation may sell them; the camera may haunt them.
Web Summit Lisbon 2026 runs November 9–12. Our preview covers confirmed speakers, China expansion speculation, AI robots, standout sessions, and networking.
A November 2026 guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, open models, API prices, coding agents, privacy, and choosing AI that actually finishes the job.
SiliconSnark announces its third album, News from the Machine, Vol. 1: 11 songs about AI model drops, Tibo’s reset, and a party with questionable governance.
Anthropic’s IPO pits brilliant AI against huge losses, narrowing enterprise leads, Replit’s OpenAI shift, and a compute bill that makes Amazon look thrifty.
The SiliconSnark AI Manifesto answers Zuckerberg with universal superintelligence, printer tribunals, safety geese, and several necessary lasers.
Tokenmaxxed is an electronic concept album about tokenmaxxing’s rise and fall, sung by an AI token moving between techno, disco, and obsolescence.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
After Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, SiliconSnark offers him a contributor gig, a $35 rate and a first assignment involving one very specific toaster.
Aura Ink 10 makes digital photos look calmer and more permanent. The $349 price and muted color keep this elegant e-paper frame niche.
MIT researchers designed synthetic emissions scenarios that helped a climate emulator handle unfamiliar policy changes. A full-scale test still lies ahead.
After the New York Times reports a second alleged Jensen Huang affair, SiliconSnark offers Nvidia five escape plans, including a hostile takeover of Coldplay.
Dario Amodei’s Anthropic IPO roadshow predicts an end to major diseases within a decade. Meanwhile, AI has delivered Fruit Love Island and a Dario breakup duet.
Breggz’s £549 Zohn 2 packs five drivers into each earbud, skips ANC on principle, and makes movie night feel like an audiophile tax audit.
Rox raised $100 million for AI that researches sales accounts a penny at a time. Finding the buyer looks economical. Taking credit for the sale is trickier.
Billerica-based Fabri combines 3D-printed patterns and foundry software to speed metal casting, with real customers and bigger production ambitions for 2027.
Alta’s $47.5 million Series A backs a blockchain for institutional payments. The real test is freeing idle cash without adding new treasury risks.
Australia proposes an AI safety regulator after the OpenAI breach. Independent checks and faster alerts sound useful. Now the legislation needs actual teeth.
Ring’s $249.99 indoor drone maps your home, chases alarms, and buzzes loudly for privacy. Clever security, alarming cloud dependence, excellent theater.
Jensen Huang’s admitted affair and Nvidia’s espionage inquiry turn the Astronomer comparison nuclear—and put his China-policy advocacy under harsh scrutiny.