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London-based Creator Fund has closed a $56 million fund with a deliberately specific mandate: European PhD founders, reached inside university labs before they have a pitch deck, a co-founder or even a company name. The fund will back researchers across 30 universities in ten European countries, writing first cheques of between £100,000 and £700,000 into scientific founders working in AI, biotech, robotics, advanced materials and physics. The timing was carefully considered – the window between a PhD researcher becoming commercially viable and being pulled into academia, a Big Tech role or a US lab is short, and Creator Fund is…

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday in a blog post. The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms. OpenAI, which was last valued at $852 billion post-money, submitted a draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO. The company didn’t list the number of shares or set a price. The filing is the latest signal that 2026 will be a blockbuster year for the public markets.…

Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs, the company announced during its developer keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The tech giant said that developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads will be able to use its Foundation Models running in Private Cloud Compute, with no cloud API cost. “It’s access to frontier-tier level intelligence with unparalleled privacy protections, because getting started exploring ideas shouldn’t be held back by infrastructure costs,” the presenter noted. The “under 2 million” figure is another means of capturing the indie developer audience, similar…

Bitcoin traded around $63,000 on Monday, clawing back from a two-month low hit on June 5 as a confluence of headwinds — spot ETF outflows, macro uncertainty, and capital rotation into artificial intelligence stocks — pushed the world’s largest cryptocurrency roughly 50% below its all-time high of $126,279 reached in October 2025. The decline has triggered familiar scenes of capitulation. Retail investors have largely stepped back, and mainstream headlines have leaned into the fear. But a growing chorus of institutional voices is pushing back hard. In a report published Monday, analysts at Wall Street brokerage Bernstein said Bitcoin’s long-term “store…

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open-source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. Many of the affected projects relate to Microsoft’s cloud service Azure and other tools used by developers to code with AI development apps, such as Claude Code, Gemini’s command line interface, and VS Code. According to security firm Cloudsmith and community-driven malware analysis site OpenSourceMalware, who were some of the first to flag the hack, the malware allowed the hackers to steal the user’s passwords and other sensitive credentials when…

Monday 08 June 2026 6:00 pm  |  Updated:  Monday 08 June 2026 4:48 pm Book your tables and pre-order those booze towers because the World Cup is here Book your tables and pre-order those booze towers because the World Cup is here – for more than a month – and City AM has you covered. Here are the sport desk’s top nine non-traditional spots to enjoy the footie from.BrigadiersThe City staple is an ideal place for those early 8pm kick-offs. Its Indian grill menu will be served throughout the tournament with private rooms available, but its Match Day Feast – featuring…

Parveen’s Canteen wants to convert a ground-floor unit at 420–424 Victoria Road from Class 1A retail use into a Class 3 restaurant/café, according to a planning application submitted to Glasgow City Council. The proposal also includes installing an extract flue on the rear of the building to vent cooking fumes. The site, which was last used as a charity shop, covers around 176 square metres and currently has no dedicated parking spaces. The plans confirm this would remain the case, with no new vehicle access, parking or changes to public paths proposed as part of the change of use. Architects…

‘You’ve done the damage, you’ve destroyed our life, you’re still honking and threatening our life as well’19:26, 08 Jun 2026Updated 19:28, 08 Jun 2026Shankill Gospel Hall arson attack – Migrant owed business destroyedThe owner of a Shankill Road business destroyed in an arson attack has said: “All our life’s work is gone now” as she tries to salvage what’s left.A former Gospel Hall on Shankill Road was destroyed over the weekend following an arson attack in the early hours of Saturday, June 6. The building had recently been bought in order to turn it into a shop.The owner of the…

Brighton and Hove City Council has revealed plans to reduce vehicle access during drop off and pick up times in roads near three schools. The plans look to enforce closures near Woodingdean Primary, West Blatchington Primary (including King’s School) and Balfour Primary (including Varndean and Dorothy Stringer schools). The access restrictions would be part of the council’s school streets scheme, which looks to create a safer space for children and families, as well as encouraging them to walk, scoot or cycle more. The areas would be enforced by the help of school staff, volunteers or infrastructure such as manned gates…