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Boston Needs a Foundation Model Champion. Liquid AI Is Ready.
Liquid AI could become Boston's pillar foundation-model company by building efficient AI for devices, vehicles, enterprises, and the physical world.
Deep Dive
Humanoid robots are moving from demos to warehouses and factories. This guide explains the tech, economics, safety fights, and why scale is still hard.
AI
Mastercard wants AI agents to pay for services at machine speed without turning agentic commerce into a fraud carnival. Sensible plumbing, strange incentives.
Consumer Tech
visionOS 27 gives Vision Pro better spatial instincts, smarter Siri, and just enough practical polish to make the face computer feel plausible.
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.
A guide to the next generation of tech internet slang, introducing verbs like apexxing, vortexxing, and godmodding that go beyond “maxxing”
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
Klarna's new U.S. savings account shows BNPL maturing into a full cash-habitat play, with partner-bank plumbing, membership hooks, and sticky deposits.
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and restricted Mythos 5, pairing frontier AI capability with guardrails, premium pricing, and a velvet rope.
Broadcom's June 9 AI platform turns 20 gigawatts of compute into a private-credit machine. The infrastructure is real. The banker smell is also real.
OpenAI's confidential S-1 starts its IPO process and puts its growth, compute costs, governance, and trillion-dollar ambitions under review.
Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026. Here is how its Gemini-powered assistant works, why privacy matters, and what Apple must still prove.
Google's June 8 NotebookLM upgrade adds source hunting, code, and export overload. It looks absurdly overqualified and, annoyingly, pretty great.
InfoHawk wants to score suspicious URLs, ads, and accounts in 300 milliseconds. The pitch is a little surveillance-coded, but the problem is painfully real.
Britain's new AI hardware plan puts £1.1 billion behind sovereign compute, homegrown chips, and a 2030 supercomputer. It is serious policy with excellent stage lighting.
Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Sam Altman walked into a boardroom and somehow agreed on something. Also: we made a synth-pop album. It's been a week.
New Dawn Bio grows shaped wood from tree stem cells instead of forests. It is a charming climate-tech moonshot with just enough industrial audacity to work.
OpenAI is suddenly the center of a bipartisan plan to give Americans a slice of AI wealth. Clever politics, strange finance, and pristine nationalized vibes.
Cash App's $25 NFC wand is equal parts fintech hardware, Gen Z charm bracelet, and excellent bit. Against reason, it also makes a weird amount of sense.