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When iRobot Corp. collapsed under the weight of a failed Amazon acquisition and mounting financial losses, the future of the iconic Roomba vacuum — and the decades of robotics research behind it — seemed destined for the scrap heap. But in a twist that reads more like a Silicon Valley redemption arc than a corporate obituary, a small Norwegian robotics company called Picea Robotics has emerged as the unlikely savior of iRobot’s core technology, purchasing key assets and relaunching the brand with ambitious plans that extend far beyond vacuuming floors.

The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying its examination of Microsoft’s sprawling cloud computing and artificial intelligence businesses, a move that signals growing regulatory concern over the tech giant’s dominant position in two of the most consequential sectors of the modern economy. The probe, which has been building quietly for months, now appears to be entering a more aggressive phase — one that could reshape how Microsoft and its rivals compete for the enormous revenues flowing into AI infrastructure and enterprise cloud services.

When Meta Platforms first partnered with EssilorLuxottica to release the Ray-Ban Stories in 2021, the product was met with a collective shrug from the tech industry. The glasses were clunky, limited in functionality, and seemed like a vanity project from a company that had just bet its entire corporate identity on a metaverse vision that few consumers understood. Four years later, that early, unglamorous bet on face-worn computing is emerging as one of the most strategically prescient moves in consumer technology — and Meta’s rivals are scrambling to catch up.

In the annals of Super Bowl advertising — a domain historically ruled by beer brands, automakers, and celebrity-studded spectacles — few campaigns have managed to be simultaneously self-deprecating and strategically brilliant. Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, appears to have pulled off exactly that feat during Super Bowl LX in February 2026, running a series of ads that openly mocked the AI industry’s tendency toward grandiose promises and dystopian undertones.