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An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt Roomba maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’

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Roomba bites the dust: iRobot files for bankruptcy, but don’t worry—your robot vacuum should still work
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Roomba bites the dust: iRobot files for bankruptcy, but don’t worry—your robot vacuum should still work

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Amazon will reportedly lay off 30,000 people

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Roomba creator iRobot was once courted by Amazon for a vacuum revolution. Now, it might go out of business

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The death of Amazon’s iRobot deal has knock-down effects, as the unicorn corporate exit appears to be defunct
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The death of Amazon’s iRobot deal has knock-down effects, as the unicorn corporate exit appears to be defunct

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Amazon’s failed iRobot deal is European regulators’ latest win in a yearslong campaign to stop Big Tech from getting bigger

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Amazon walking away from its $1.7 billion iRobot deal leaves the Roomba maker without its founding CEO and staring down a 31% staff cut
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Amazon walking away from its $1.7 billion iRobot deal leaves the Roomba maker without its founding CEO and staring down a 31% staff cut

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Amazon scraps $1.7 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot after EU antitrust resistance

By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
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Amazon now is being probed by the EU over whether it’s killing competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market

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Twitch stars flexed their power to remove harmful gambling streams. Could more creator activism follow?

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Weeks after Lina Khan’s FTC opens investigation of Amazon for One Medical deal, it probes acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot

By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated Press
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Could Washington bureaucrats save the EV industry’s tax credits from Congress’s tough anti-China stance?

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Amazon critics think the tech giant’s Roomba acquisition sucks. Stopping the deal won’t be easy

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