AI
Claude Fable 5 Couldn’t Edit My PowerPoint. Five Prompts Ate My Credits.
Fable 5 failed a basic PowerPoint editing job, burned through my credits, and exposed the widening gap between dazzling AI demos and usable work.
Fintech
Strivve is extending card-on-file placement to AI shopping agents, turning “top of wallet” into a fight over which issuer gets picked by software.
Funding
NextGO Epi raised €2 million to commercialize gallium oxide wafers for high-voltage power electronics. The material is weird, expensive, and genuinely promising.
Review
Signal Ring puts cuffless blood-pressure tracking on your finger for $399. It is focused, clever, and still waiting to prove the medical promise.
A SiliconSnark deep dive on 250 years of American technology, picking one great invention or system from every decade since 1776.
A 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.
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.
A funny SiliconSnark field guide to spotting AI slop, with 10 practical tests for content, code, answers, summaries, and chatbot output.
Updated May 12: the Mac Mini fantasy is still shaky, but Stripe, AWS, Microsoft, Intercom, MongoDB, and GitHub now show early agent-money signals.
The internet’s snarkiest site for celebrating tech innovation, and calling out the nonsense.
Wonder raised $650 million at a $9 billion valuation to scale robot kitchens, food halls, AI, and delivery. The ambition is real. So is the burn.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 brings frontier-level AI, low API pricing, and open weights to the U.S.-China model race. The hardware bill remains enormous.
Hyundai is taking full control of Waltham-based Boston Dynamics as Atlas moves from viral robot demos toward factories, manufacturing, and real work.
Europe ordered Google to open Android and Search data to rival AI services. It is a real competition shift, with privacy risks attached.
T. Rowe Price launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto ETP that gives investors one ticker for a volatile digital-asset basket.
Spectro Cloud’s $100M+ Series D funds the boring software that makes AI infrastructure governable, portable, and slightly less expensive to panic about.
OpenAI’s $230 Codex Micro turns AI-agent management into a tactile desktop ritual. It is a niche flex, but the useful kind.
Cambridge startup Walden Robotics raised $300 million for trainable factory robots already working at Toyota, making Boston’s physical AI bet concrete.
GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 excel at different work. Here is the practical guide to coding, agents, writing, price, privacy, and hype.
Mio wants to turn Slack into a place where follow-ups actually happen. A slightly unnerving AI coworker pitch with a surprisingly practical wedge.
Huawei's Pura 90s Pro Max looks like a terrific camera phone with a 200MP telephoto, huge battery, and global-market weirdness that somehow adds to the charm.
Apnimed's July 14 FDA filing acceptance puts its Cambridge sleep apnea pill AD109 on track for a February 28, 2027 review decision.