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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 …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
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.
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
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 …
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| Financial Times: |
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 …
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| Martin Peers / The Information: |
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 …
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| Financial Times: |
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 …
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| Reuters: |
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.
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| Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
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 …
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| Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
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 — Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
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.
More: Tech.eu, FinSMEs, EU-Startups, Mirelo AI, Tech Funding News, and Index Ventures. LinkedIn: Florian Wenzel
| Mike Baker / New York Times: |
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.
More: DroneXL.co and NBC Bay Area
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| Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: |
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.
More: FinSMEs, eWeek, Business Wire, and Endpoints News
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
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 — The artificial intelligence boom is expensive, prompting venture capital firms to raise enormous sums to keep up.
More: Business Wire
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley — Remember the early days of AI image generation? Oh how we laughed when our prompts resulted in people with too many fingers … Sponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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