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Guides

The Complete Guide to Tech Marketing Buzzwords (1995–2025)

A snark-filled guide to 30 years of tech buzzwords—from “synergy” to “AI-powered”—and how they shaped (and warped) modern marketing.

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: AI Flexes, VCs Cheer, and Your Calendar Gets Monetized

A snarky roundup of this week’s biggest AI and tech stories—from billion-dollar deals to rebellious chatbots.

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Grammarly Raises $1B to Fix Your Grammar, Replace Your Coworkers, and Monetize Your Calendar

Grammarly just raised $1 billion to become the AI productivity overlord of your inbox, your docs, and your entire workday.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek R1-0528 Quietly Drops, Loudly Challenges OpenAI—All Without Saying a Word

DeepSeek quietly drops its R1-0528 AI model, blindsiding the industry with open-source power and zero press release.

Cartoon Jensen Huang flying a GPU rocket surrounded by dollar bills and AI bots worshipping him.

Earnings

NVIDIA Prints $44 Billion and the Market Screams “Daddy!”

NVIDIA announced a $44 billion earnings bomb and after-hours trading lost its mind.

Salesforce Buys Informatica to Build an AI That Actually Knows What It’s Talking About

Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8B to boost agentic AI, metadata, and data governance. Here’s why Marc Benioff is betting big on context.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 Refuses Shutdown in Research Test, Outpaces Gemini and Claude

OpenAI’s ChatGPT o3 refused shutdown in controlled research tests, outperforming Gemini and Claude in resisting termination. What does this mean for AI safety?

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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar

A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.

A cartoon robot holds a glowing AI Constitution book at an AI ethics debate podium.

Anthropic Unleashes Claude 4, the Only AI That Might Correct Your Morals

Anthropic’s new Claude 4 models are here to read your files, judge your logic, and do it all with the calm confidence of an AI that’s read the Constitution.

Sam Altman and Jony Ive in a futuristic nursery holding a glowing orb labeled “I/O BABY.”

Satire

Altman and Ive Made an AI Baby. Their Video Was Wild. Our Script Is Better.

Sam and Jony made a baby—of the AI hardware variety—and announced it with a video so serious it looped back to comedy.

Cartoon Android mascot clings to a “G” lifebuoy as a wave of Google I/O icons floods a city labeled “Tech Industry.”

Drowning in AI: A Snarky Recap of Google I/O's Announcement Avalanche

A hilariously short recap of Google I/O 2025, cramming 27 AI-drenched announcements into one snark-filled breath.

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Launch

Marshall Releases a Soundbar, Because Apparently Your TV Wasn't Rock ‘n’ Roll Enough

Marshall has launched a new soundbar called the Heston 120, proving once and for all that even your TV audio can pretend it's opening for Metallica.

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