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Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33%+ (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33%+  —  Shares of iRobot plunged 33% on Monday after the company warned its search for a buyer has hit a substantial roadblock and its financial condition remains dire.

Sources: Microsoft's next Xbox will run Windows, letting users play PlayStation titles on Steam and the full Xbox console library, without a multiplayer paywall (Jez Corden/Windows Central)

Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft's next Xbox will run Windows, letting users play PlayStation titles on Steam and the full Xbox console library, without a multiplayer paywall  —  The new Xbox platform is said to be a “premium” experience, and now we have some details on what it'll look like.

Internal memo: Vishal Shah, who led Meta's metaverse unit, will now lead AI product management; sources: Vibes was rushed out to get ahead of OpenAI's Sora (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Internal memo: Vishal Shah, who led Meta's metaverse unit, will now lead AI product management; sources: Vibes was rushed out to get ahead of OpenAI's Sora  —  Vishal Shah takes on key role after Meta AI video service Vibes overshadowed by OpenAI's Sora  —  Mark Zuckerberg has appointed …

China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open-source model optimized for AI agents and coding and priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens (MiniMax)

MiniMax:
China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open-source model optimized for AI agents and coding and priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens  —  From Day 1 of our founding, we have been committed to the vision of “Intelligence with Everyone.”

OpenAI estimates that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a week show "severe mental health symptoms" like mania, and details its safety improvements (OpenAI)

OpenAI:
OpenAI estimates that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a week show “severe mental health symptoms” like mania, and details its safety improvements  —  We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care …