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DeepSeek reportedly nears a $12 billion round backed by Tencent and CATL. Cheap tokens are real; a cheap AI business is another question.
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JBL’s BassPro Go2 is a boat subwoofer that becomes a portable speaker. The engineering is clever; the missing price is doing suspiciously heavy lifting.
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SiliconSnark’s AI albums have earned over 200 times its $0.01 Cents.VC investment. Introducing supersnark hypergrowth. Kindly disregard Ghost and distribution.
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.
Evident acquired CrestOptics on October 5, expanding live-cell microscopy. Its Needham operation links Boston biotech to a global scientific tools deal.
Modern Treasury seeks a national trust bank charter for digital asset custody. What the application changes for stablecoin payments, customers, and risk.
OpenAI plans visual ads beside ChatGPT image generation. The measurement tools look useful; keeping imagination separate from shopping is the harder test.
NACON’s $229.99 Revolution 5 Unlimited puts a screen, TMR sticks, and six extra buttons on a PS5 controller. Smart, excessive, and almost convincing.
OPPO’s F35 series combines a 50MP ultrawide selfie camera, 8,000mAh battery, and six-year promises. Your group chat may not last as long.
This week, AI got a stuffed-animal board, a $200 million velvet rope, and a congressional letter about its keys. Then it got a music video. Priorities, people.
SF Tech Week 2026 runs October 5–11. Explore the events, AI hype, robots, networking traps, and Boston comparisons before your calendar files for bankruptcy.
8BitDo’s Gears of War: E-Day keyboard and mouse are smart, capable, and gloriously overcommitted to desk-based military history.
Neurable One puts 12 EEG sensors and a ‘Brain Battery’ in $499 headphones. The focus tech is clever; the cognitive dashboard needs humility.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei become an AI pop duo in APT. and Gotye memes. The internet has a modest request for the rival CEOs: please just be friends.
Another NSW website joins OpenAI’s incident list. Today’s disclosure tests whether agent safety includes knowing where your software went months ago.
Vicinity Energy’s planned majority sale values the Boston company at $2.92 billion, putting district heating and Cambridge electrification in the spotlight.
