iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reaches a restructuring agreement to hand over control to its secured lender and main Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model …
LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to the home screen, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES
Users report Copilot appearing after a recent software update, with no option to uninstall. — LG smart TV owners are reporting …
A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after US and EU regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B deal in 2024 amid growing Chinese competition
There's something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture.
Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages
Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls — The UK government wants technology companies …
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes
Nvidia launched the new version of its frontier models, Nemotron 3, by leaning in on a model architecture that the world's …
Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD offer, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid
The two chief executive officers of Netflix Inc. laid out the company's case for acquiring Warner Bros Discovery Inc. …
The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government
After pushing hundreds of thousands of government employees to leave their posts and dismantling many government technology units …
DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust
Trading in insurance-like products that protect against tech company defaults is booming — Trading in products that pay …
Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November …
Internal docs: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads, like for scams
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China.
US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running.
Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI
Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday it acquired AI software firm SchedMD, as the chip designer doubles down on open-source technology and steps up investments …
AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M
Chai Discovery, an artificial intelligence drug-discovery company backed by OpenAI, has raised $130 million to build a “computer-aided design suite” for molecules.
Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret videos to add synced sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index Ventures and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed
AI lets anyone create videos, but many AI video creation tools lack support for audio. Mirelo is building AI that adds soundtracks to match the video's action.
Thrive Holdings announces it has hired Palantir CIO Jim Siders to serve as CEO of Shield Technology Partners, a newly created business focused on IT services
Thrive Capital, the tech investment firm known for taking big stakes in companies including OpenAI, Stripe and Databricks …
Investigation: after Trump returned to the White House, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones about Trump-tied companies
So Why the Headline? New York Times : How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.'s Cryptocurrency Enforcement X: Alex Thorn / @intangiblecoins : i really want to believe that NYT is trustworthy but that has be...
Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022
Dragoneer has raised $4.3 billion for its seventh venture capital fund, Axios has learned. … - The San Francisco-based firm raised $3.8 billion …
Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was- forc... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : “I managed bots replacing my team until they replaced me.” A former support lead's warning. This piece details AI erasing c...
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads, with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool twice
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal :
Teneo survey of 350+ public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than they cost, and more
Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal :
How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame MAGA's opposition to Trump's AI executive order, talking to lawmakers and finally modifying its language
Some of Trump's decisions will always remain a mystery Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Donald Trump has filed an executive order asking federal agencies to fight state AI laws including using tactics ...
Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose”
Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider :
Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams
Naomi Nix / Washington Post :
Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay
Bloomberg :
London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024
John Reynolds / Tech.eu :
Lightspeed raised $9B+ across six AI funds, including $3.3B to back breakout hits like Anthropic, xAI, and Mistral; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups
Erin Griffith / New York Times :
An interview with Marcos Galperin, the CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on deciding to resign, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more
Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Brad Stone and Patrick Gillespie LinkedIn: Brad Stone : Is there anyone more directly responsible for the economic transformation of Latin America than Marcos Galperin, founder ...
How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, churns out world-famous video games via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator
Ralph Jones / The Guardian : LinkedIn: Henrik Jonsson LinkedIn: Henrik Jonsson : Skövde, the place where the Swedish Indie Game boom was formed, is in UK newspapers - The blueprint for building a gam...
How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's early access to President Trump, who ultimately approved H200 sales to China
Financial Times :
AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley
Allison Johnson / The Verge :
A look at the efforts to give retail investors access to private markets, where shares of startups like OpenAI trade, and the opportunities and risks they bring
If you like our current form of capitalism, you're entitled to that opinion—but anyone foolish enough to think it can ever be anything but a two-tiered system (including Robinhood) is living in fantas...
How the UAE's growing interest in crypto drew Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao, and other executives to Abu Dhabi, hoping to secure deals with Emirati investors
Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal :
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