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iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/robot…

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp. filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong Co.

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Volvo Supplier Luminar Files Bankruptcy After Contract Dispute
Luminar Technologies Inc, which manufactures laser-based sensors for cars, filed for bankruptcy shortly after it lost a contract with Swedish carmaker Volvo AB.

How bonkers?
You can run DOOM on a 13 year old cable from Apple bonkers.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-runs-on-an-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-dongle-soc-inside-adapter-has-enough-power-for-smooth-gameplay

heise | KI in Home Assistant: C3PO-Wetterbericht und Mülltonnenerkennung einbauen
Mit KI wird das Haus nicht nur smart, sondern intelligent: Die KI analysiert etwa Bilder oder erstellt kreative Benachrichtigungen.

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.
Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term.
Then they went way down under Biden.
Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
--Sarah Taber
https://www.fb.org…

Farm Bankruptcies Down… For Now
Farm Bankruptcies’ Downward Trend Not Expected to Continue

Bonjour Lyon! #SyliusCon

So next year is the 30th anniversary of USB and the 10th anniversary of mass-market adoption of the USB-C connector.
Fun fact, USB4 is based on Thunderbolt and virtualizes USB connections over it, so Thunderbolt kind of won the hardware interface wars in the end. Modern peripheral connection hardware is bonkers.

Tether agrees to a $299.5M settlement with the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving claims related to Celsius's 2022 collapse (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-celsius-299m-settlement-stablecoin-liability

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/

How iRobot lost its way home | TechCrunch
iRobot survived three decades of competition, but couldn't survive European regulators killing its Amazon buyout. Now it's being taken over by its own supplier in bankruptcy court.

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…

AI and Crypto Companies Dominated IPO Winners in 2025
The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries. Bankers expect those trends to hold in 2026. Booms in AI and crypto delivered two of the biggest winners of the year: data center developer ...