iRobot, the maker of Roomba, has filed for bankruptcy and will hand its assets to Chinese partner Picea. Co-founder Colin Angle says the company was “roadkilled” when regulators blocked its $1.7 billion acquisition by Amazon in early 2024, a move he calls destructive to innovation.
The AI boom isn’t just about GPUs and flash memory. New reports show hard disk drive prices have spiked about 4% last quarter, the sharpest increase in two years. Demand from AI data storage and a shift in China is driving the change.
Latent Labs has unveiled Latent-X2, a frontier AI model that generates drug-like antibodies and peptides without iterative lab work. The model achieved hits against half of 18 difficult targets, with designs showing low ex vivo immunogenicity right out of the gate.
Microsoft is planning a genuinely useful AI upgrade, according to a patent filing. It aims to build Copilot directly into the Windows Clipboard for instant data formatting. This could be the practical AI tool users have been waiting for.
A new project called DoomScroll has launched, archiving countless classic Doom WADs and letting you play them directly in your web browser. It’s the result of five years of work by developers James Baicoianu and Jason Scott, aiming to preserve the game’s rich modding history.
The selloff in AI infrastructure stocks like Broadcom and Oracle continued Monday, signaling investor anxiety over the massive capital spend. Despite strong earnings, the market is getting nervous about the returns.
Apple is adding Google Cast support to its native Apple TV app for Android. This update, arriving after the app’s launch in February 2025, makes it much easier for subscribers to stream to their televisions.
The data intelligence company Databricks has raised a massive $4 billion in a Series L round, valuing it at $134 billion. This comes as the company’s AI-focused products now generate over $1 billion in annual run-rate revenue, growing at 55% year-over-year.
Shiloh Luckey, founder of the tax-compliance startup ComplYant, is under federal criminal investigation for alleged securities and bank fraud. The SEC has filed a civil complaint, alleging she used millions in company funds for personal expenses while grossly inflating revenue numbers to investors.
OpenAI has poached Albert Lee, Google’s senior director of corporate development, to lead its own dealmaking. This follows a string of high-profile business hires and a busy 2025 of acquisitions. The move strongly hints that OpenAI is preparing for a major expansion through M&A.
