Crypto
The meme coin promotion machine now includes launchpads, political tokens, livestream bounties, lawsuits, and enough plausible deniability to power a small exchange.
AI
A SiliconSnark list of sleeper AI companies that could become category-defining giants, from robotics and medicine to materials, mining, and math.
Deep Dive
Loop writing and loop engineering are the new AI-agent buzzwords. Here is what they mean, what reports are saying, and where the hype breaks.
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.
OpenAI poached Google's crown jewel, Meta got a very public performance review, and Snap arrived wearing our robot's face. Another perfectly normal week.
Schwab's reported Cboe deal shows prediction markets becoming ordinary brokerage product, wrapped in options language and aimed at retail traders.
Valve’s $99 controller still looks smart and couch-friendly. Buying one now feels less like checkout and more like filing for the future.
The NTS Radio Player turns old speakers into a hand-curated streaming machine. It is gloriously niche, faintly pretentious, and more practical than it should be.
AEO is the new AI search acronym promising to replace SEO. The truth is more useful, more boring, and much funnier.
HyperLight raised $80 million on June 18 to scale Cambridge-built photonics for AI infrastructure, turning Boston optics into a real data-center bet.
Google's new Home Speaker makes voice control feel natural at last, then quietly parks the best Gemini tricks behind a premium plan. I still kind of want one.
Odyssey just raised $310 million to build AI world models, lean into AWS Trainium, and test whether simulating reality is a real business.
Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI, proving the AI race still runs on talent, timing, and extremely expensive retention plans.
Midjourney Medical's full-body ultrasound scanner is a strange, hopeful, spa-shaped bet on faster, cheaper personal health imaging.
Spero Therapeutics won FDA approval for the first oral carbapenem in the U.S., giving Cambridge biotech a real answer to hospital-only UTI care.
Foundation Alloy raised $22 million on June 16 to scale MIT-born solid-state metallurgy in Massachusetts with a new facility and Japan distribution.
