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Two years and a $250 million lawsuit later, Apple’s AI Siri revamp is on its way to your phones and laptops and even your mixed reality headset, if you happen to be one of like three people who actually uses the Apple Vision Pro. Apple revealed a slew of new information at Monday’s WWDC keynote about these long-awaited, AI-powered updates that can take advantage of the fact that our hardware is supposedly “built for Apple Intelligence.” To be honest, it’s hard for AI to impress me enough that I’ll use it in my day-to-day life. I still don’t trust LLMs…

Wednesday 10 June 2026 1:13 am  |  Updated:  Tuesday 09 June 2026 4:30 pm Banking boss Bill Winters (Pic: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Top banking bosses have issued their AI verdict after Standard Chartered stunned the sector with plans for sweeping job cuts last month. In this week’s column Samuel Norman looks at whether a reckoning could be on the horizon.The big-name banker must have known how the conversation would go when he arrived for lunch with City journalists last month.Just hours prior to our gathering, another top banking chief, the boss of Standard Chartered, Bill Winters, turned heads in the Square Mile…

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Last year, Justin Ernest noticed a massive gap in how venture capital was working: Family offices and smaller institutional investors were eager to invest in the fastest-growing AI companies but couldn’t get access to those cap tables.  Having spent over five years at Playground Global investing in deep tech and helping lead fundraising, Ernest was confident his connections to both investors and founders would allow him to bridge that gap. Instead of launching a formal VC fund, a process he says takes new managers anywhere from 12 to 18 months, Ernest used his network to secure allocations of stock in…

Police and political leaders have called for calm as protest continue in the streets of Belfast following a horrific knife attackOlivia Beeson UK & World News Reporter 01:31, 10 Jun 2026Vehicles and properties set on fire by protesters on Lendrick Street in Belfast, close to the Newtownards Road(Image: PA)Police and political leaders in Northern Ireland have appealed for calm after ‘sporadic pockets of disorder’ erupted in a number of areas following demonstrations in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in Belfast.Protestors caused chaos across the city, setting fire to a bus, businesses and houses, as firefighters had to remove residents…

Key TakeawaysGlassnode reported XRP’s 90-day network fee average dropped 91.5%, signaling sharply lower activity.Falling transaction demand suggests network usage has weakened significantly since early 2025.Earlier data showed rising profit-taking and declining holder profitability, adding pressure. XRP’s Fee Collapse Raises Questions About Real Network Demand XRP’s on-chain activity is flashing a sharper warning than price alone shows, with Glassnode data pointing to a deep contraction in network use. In a June 9, 2026, post on X, the digital asset data, analytics, and research firm framed the fee decline as a demand signal. The 90-day simple moving average, or 90D-SMA, tracks the…

Google just made its budget AI subscription plan a lot more budget-friendly, bringing a price war that’s been brewing in emerging markets squarely to American consumers. The company announced Monday that it is cutting the monthly price of Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 — while doubling the storage included at that tier, from 200 gigabytes to 400 gigabytes. Vikas Kansal, product lead for Gemini AI subscriptions, said on X that the storage updates would roll out to users over the next several days. Google AI Plus launched in January as the most affordable paid AI subscription in the…

Location : The A19 southbound between the A181 and the junction with the A179 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 01:00 and 01:15 on 10 June 2026. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency’s plan to eventually land astronauts on the moon. Source link

Last year, Justin Ernest noticed a massive gap in how venture capital was working: family offices and smaller institutional investors were eager to invest in the fastest-growing AI companies but couldn’t get access to those cap tables.   Having spent over five years at Playground Global investing in deep tech and helping lead fundraising, Ernest was confident his connections to both investors and founders would allow him to bridge that gap.  Instead of launching a formal VC fund, a process he says takes new managers anywhere from 12 to 18 months, Ernest used his network to secure allocations of stock in high-profile, later-stage companies.  He then offers these individual deals to a group of about 30 smaller institutional investors using Special Purpose Vehicles, or SPVs, which act as single-deal funds.  Over the last 12 months, his firm, Sabertooth VC, has invested nearly $400 million into 10 companies, including Anthropic, Anduril,…