The M&A market roared back in 2025, driven by massive AI bets and private equity. But a new report shows a stark divide: while megadeals thrived, the middle market slumped to its lowest level in ten years.
iRobot, the company behind the Roomba, has filed for bankruptcy. The firm’s value has plummeted from $3.56 billion in 2021 to about $140 million. Picea, a competitor, will take control and cancel hundreds of millions in debt.
A shift in memory chip production toward AI servers is creating a supply crunch for smartphone DRAM. Counterpoint Research forecasts this will drive down global smartphone shipments by 2.1% in 2026. The big players like Apple and Samsung can absorb the hit, but smaller brands are in for a rough ride
SpaceX is seriously considering an IPO as soon as next year, a major policy reversal. The goal? Raising tens of billions to fund not just Mars missions, but a new push into orbital AI data centers. The company’s valuation just hit around $800 billion in a recent tender offer.
The fintech robo-advisor Wealthfront had a quiet first day of trading, closing up just 1% after its IPO. The company is now valued at $2.1 billion, a nice step up from its failed $1.4 billion acquisition by UBS in 2022.
In a landmark move, 165 developers at id Software have voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of America. This follows a trend of Microsoft-owned studios organizing after the company’s Activision Blizzard acquisition.
Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs, has been sentenced to 15 years in a US prison. His guilty plea follows the 2022 collapse of the Terra USD stablecoin, which vaporized an estimated $40 billion in investor value.
The SpaceX IPO rumor mill is officially spinning, and it’s creating a gravitational pull for the entire space sector. Smaller companies like Starfighters Space are already increasing their own offering sizes, hoping to capitalize on the unprecedented attention and capital a SpaceX listing would brin
Palantir has received over 2,000 applications for its new Neurodivergent Fellowship, a program paying between $110,000 and $200,000 annually. The initiative, announced after CEO Alex Karp’s viral fidgeting video, is part of the company’s broader strategy to hire outside traditional tech pipelines.
Deloitte Consulting’s CEO is pushing for 2026 to be the year the business world moves past AI anxiety. He argues the real value lies in using AI to augment human capabilities, not replace them. The firm is also shifting clients toward outcome-based business models.
