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Google rolls out a native Gemini app for Mac

You can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they're looking at in the moment, including local files.

Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac

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Accel raises $5 billion AI fund after Anthropic and Cursor returns soar

In short: Accel has raised $5 billion in new capital, comprising a $4 billion Leaders Fund V and a $650 million sidecar, targeting 20-25 late-stage AI investments at an average cheque size of $200 million. The raise follows standout returns from its Anthropic stake (invested at $183B, now valued near $800B) and Cursor (backed at $9.9B, now reportedly around $50B), and lands in a Q1 2026 venture market that deployed a record $297 billion.

The Musician-Turned-Biotech-Founder Waiting to Fundraise

Aloe Blacc sits down with TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast to talk about his transition from music to biotech, why he’s building a cancer drug company, and why he’s choosing not to fundraise yet.

FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why

Trump FCC starts handing out exemptions to its ban on foreign-made routers.

Anthropic has attracted investor offers at an $800 billion valuation

In short: Anthropic has received investor offers valuing the company at approximately $800 billion, more than doubling its $380 billion valuation from a $30 billion funding round closed just two months ago. The surge follows an unprecedented revenue trajectory that has taken Anthropic from $1 billion in annualised revenue at the end of 2024 to $30 billion by early April 2026, alongside the release of its Claude Mythos model through Project Glasswing.

Athena wants to bring agentic AI to the semiconductor factory floor

In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation for semiconductor and electronics factories. Built in partnership with Bangalore-based LLM at Scale.AI, it layers LLM capabilities on top of the Siemens Opcenter and Critical Manufacturing MES platforms that Athena implements.

India's vibe-coding startup Emergent enters OpenClaw-like AI agent space

Emergent's Wingman lets users manage and automate tasks through chat on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.

Jane Street Signs $6 Billion AI Cloud Deal with CoreWeave, Invests $1 Billion in Equity

Jane Street has signed a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave and taken a $1 billion equity stake at $109 per share, making the quantitative trading firm one of CoreWeave’s five largest shareholders. The deal provides Jane Street with access to NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin compute and adds to CoreWeave’s growing contract book, which includes Meta ($35B), OpenAI ($12B), and NVIDIA ($6.3B in capacity commitments).

Accenture invests in General Robotics to orchestrate factory robots with unified AI

Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and Ghost Robotics. The deal extends Accenture’s physical AI strategy alongside its NVIDIA-powered Physical AI Orchestrator and prior investments in Sanctuary AI and Schaeffler humanoid robotics partnerships.

Google's Bid to Equip Manufacturing Employees with AI Skills

Google.org's US$10m grant to the Manufacturing Institute aims to close skills gaps and prepare the workforce for AI-driven industrial transformation

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4-Cyber for vetted security teams, scaling Trusted Access programme

In short: OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity with lowered refusal boundaries and binary reverse engineering capabilities, and scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber programme to thousands of verified defenders. The move comes a week after Anthropic restricted its more powerful Mythos model to just 11 organisations, setting up a philosophical split: OpenAI bets on broad verified access while Anthropic opts for tightly gated deployment.