Google announced On Wednesday it is introducing a native Gemini app for Mac, taking on rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have had Mac apps for quite some time. “Now, you can bring up Gemini from anywhere on your Mac with a quick shortcut (Option + Space) to get instant help without changing tabs,” Google…
Glideways, a San Francisco-based startup that is developing personal autonomous pods designed to operate on dedicated two-meter-wide lanes in cities. raised 170 million dollars In the Series C funding round. The round was co-led by Suzuki Motor Corporation, ACS Group and Khosla Ventures. Existing investors Mitsui Chemicals and Gates Frontier and new investor Obayashi Corporation…
Accel announced on Tuesday that it has raised $5 billion In fresh capital to support late stage companies. The venture firm told Bloomberg That $4 billion will go to his late-stage Leaders Fund, for which he expects to cut at least 20 checks, each averaging $200 million. Accel looks to invest in companies creating AI-powered…
According to a report, Snap is laying off about 16% of its global workforce, which will affect about 1,000 full-time employees. memorandum The message was sent to staff on Wednesday from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. The company cites advances in AI for the reduction. “While these changes are necessary to realize Snap’s long-term potential, we…
OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company struggles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and avoid anthropogenic losses. According to Financial Times. Anthropic’s annual revenue rose from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billion by the end of March, driven primarily by demand…
Microsoft is shutting down outlook lite The company confirmed this to TechCrunch on Monday, May 26. Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and areas with slow internet connections. The app had already been scheduled for retirement – Microsoft announced last…
Chicago-based music superfan Adam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he attends since the 1980s and has an archive. over 10,000 tapes. Jacobs, now 59, knows these cassettes are going to deteriorate over time, so he agreed to give them to volunteers at the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library. digitize the tapes. To date,…
IBM Entered In $17 million settlement agreement on Friday with the US DOJ over allegations that he engaged in “illegal DEI practices” by taking into account “race, color, national origin, or sex” in his hiring and promotions. The DOJ also alleged that IBM used funds from its government contracts for DEI programs and then sought…
FBI announced On Monday it “destroyed” a global phishing operation that reportedly helped hackers target more than 17,000 victims worldwide. The website of the operation, known as W3LL, displayed a notice saying it had been seized by the FBI. The bureau said it worked with Indonesian police in the takedown operation, which resulted in the…
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called bank executives to a meeting this week, where they encouraged officials to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities. according to bloomberg. Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase was the only bank listed as one of the initial partner organizations with access to the model,…
