AI
Meta’s Muse launches put it back in the AI race. Inside Wonder, Spark Open, the rivals preparing their next moves, and the suspiciously cuddly mascot.
Tesla
Tesla’s flying Roadster demo delivers airborne absurdity, cold-gas thrusters, and a 2028 production target. The Rocket version has some earthly limits.
Review
Sony’s new Walkmans start at $1,900 and peak in gold-plated copper. They are absurdly expensive, obsessively engineered, and annoyingly coherent.
A September 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, Meta AI, Mistral, open weights, coding agents, and AI companions.
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.
A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.
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.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
New IRS card-payment rules enable a more direct checkout, but processing fees still reach taxpayers. What changed, what costs remain, and what comes next.
Meshy Edit promises to change one part of a 3D model for 20 credits. A useful revision tool, provided the wizard gets to keep his face.
Figma launches Specs, code layers, and a built-in backend. Shared context is a real advance; agreement and reliable software still require humans.
Formlabs’ $699 Form Studio 1 makes pro-grade resin printing startlingly approachable. The machine is cheap; the clean, safe ecosystem is not.
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark laptops bring Blackwell graphics and DLSS 5 to AI PCs. Great hardware, awkward game compatibility, spectacularly niche.
Molagri raised $5.8 million to build targeted biopesticides that can adapt to pesticide resistance. The science is elegant; the field is not.
Cambridge-based Tamr raised $21 million led by Volition Capital to expand AI data management, tackling duplicate records before enterprise agents use them.
NEURA’s Neuron AI combines senses and memory for physical work. An eleven-minute laundry demo is coming; proof of dependable robot labor is still pending.
Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Saldo Bank, targeting European deposits and lending. Why owning the bank changes the business, and what needs approval.
Intellivisa raised $3 million to automate visa and entry paperwork. The pitch is useful, ambitious, and one government portal away from chaos.
Garmin’s $2,500–$3,100 MARQ Gen 3 watches add satellite rescue, luxury materials, and enough specialist tools to embarrass your hobbies.
abxylute’s $76 P5 brings Hall-effect sticks and adaptive triggers to PS5. Smart value on paper; the real test is whether it ships the promise.
