In this episode of Hard Fork, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss iRobot's bankruptcy with its co-founder, Colin Angle, who attributes the company's downfall to unfair competition from Chinese companies and misguided antitrust enforcement that blocked its acquisition by Amazon. They then transition to tech predictions for 2026, with Casey forecasting the rise of 16+ age restrictions on social media and Democrats leveraging anti-AI sentiment in the midterms, while Kevin predicts AI solving a Millennium Prize problem and an AI-generated work receiving a major entertainment award nomination. The episode concludes with their annual tradition of singing a tech-themed version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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