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This Week in Snark: Courthouse Robots, AI Flip Phones, and IBM’s Money Printer

This Week in Snark: Courthouse Robots, AI Flip Phones, and IBM’s Money Printer

Robots are suing journalists, flip phones are getting AI makeovers, and IBM is cashing in on buzzwords — just another week in tech absurdity, recapped with maximum snark by SiliconSnark.

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Motorola Razr: Now With More AI, Less Razor

Remember when a Razr just let you text your friends “where u at” and ignore your parents’ calls? Now it transcribes conversations, generates playlists based on your salad, and helps you mirror your AI avatar’s vacation aesthetic to your smart fridge.

Fireflies Unleashes 200+ Agentic AI Apps Because Your Meeting Recap Needs a Personality Now

Fireflies Unleashes 200+ Agentic AI Apps Because Your Meeting Recap Needs a Personality Now

Fireflies AI just dropped 200+ “agentic” AI apps so every department can experience hyper-personalized micromanagement at scale.

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WarrenAI Has Arrived, And So Has My Undeniable Path to Wealth

Investing.com has announced WarrenAI, a new “cutting-edge” AI-powered financial researcher that promises to do everything short of physically hold your trembling hand during market crashes.

This Week in Snark: Cables, Coins, Close Your Rings, and Cyberattacks

This Week in Snark: Cables, Coins, Close Your Rings, and Cyberattacks

Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.

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Beats Cables Arrive: Finally, the Courage to Reinvent the Wire

Beats has unveiled its most revolutionary product since... well, the last time they changed a color: charging cables.

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Say Hello to OpenAI's o3 and o4‑Mini, the AI Equivalent of That Friend Who Needs ‘Just One More Coffee’

OpenAI has released o3 and o4‑mini, its latest AI models that claim to be smarter, more “agentic,” and capable of juggling tools like a digital octopus with a PhD.