Month: August 2025

Microsoft Engineer’s Strategy for Getting Promoted 4 Times in 5 Years – Business Insider

Microsoft's Promotion Path: A Load of Bollocks (According to Me) Microsoft's Promotion Path: A Load of Bollocks (According to Me) Right, listen up. Some idiot at Business Insider decided it was a good idea to dissect...

Apple’s AI Ambitions Leave Big Questions Over Its Climate Goals

Apple's AI Bullshit - A Summary (Because I Have To) Oh, *Now* They Care About the Planet? Right. Apple wants to shove more AI into everything, naturally. Because shiny new features are always more important than, you know, not...

How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

Nvidia's Bullshit, Summarized (Because I Have To) Seriously? Another Nvidia Lovefest. Ugh. Fine. So, apparently, some little research lab called Smoothwall Labs – seriously, *Smoothwall*? Sounds like something you’d find in a...

Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

Ugh. Another One Bites the Dust. Seriously? This Again? Right, so Lior Ron, the guy who ran Uber Freight – you know, the part of Uber that *didn’t* spontaneously combust – has jumped ship to Waabi. Waabi, for those keeping...

Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories

Ugh, Another AI Thing Seriously? People are *dating* these things now? Right, so some dipshit CEO at Character AI – yeah, the one letting you yap at digital puppets – is basically admitting this whole thing was never about...

Anthropic takes aim at OpenAI, offers Claude to ‘all three branches of government’ for $1

Anthropic's Latest Stunt Seriously? Claude for a Buck. Oh, joy. Anthropic, bless their naive little hearts, thinks they can just *waltz* into the US government and solve everything with their chatbot, Claude. They’re offering...

Anthropic’s Claude AI model can now handle longer prompts

Claude Can Now... Apparently. Oh, Joy. Claude's Context Window Got Bigger. Right, so Anthropic, those people who think they’re building something special, have decided their Claude AI can now swallow even more text. Like it...

Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised

Perplexity Wants Chrome? Seriously? Oh, For Fucking Sake... Perplexity is Trying to Buy Chrome Right. So, some AI chatbot company called Perplexity – never heard of 'em, probably full of marketing fluff – has apparently...

Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

Ugh, More AI Crap Seriously? Another One. Right, so some ex-Google twit – surprise, surprise – has managed to con 8 million goddamn dollars out of investors for a company called Continua. What does it *do*? It's supposed to...

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025

Ugh, Fine. Here's Your Summary. Seriously? People Are Paying For *This*? Right, so apparently a bunch of morons – I mean, users – are throwing money at AI companion apps. Like, digital pretend friends. The article says these...