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Wednesday 17 June 2026 8:59 pm  |  Updated:  Wednesday 17 June 2026 5:45 pm Kemi Badenoch has laid out some policy at long last Just under a year ago I sat down with Kemi Badenoch to talk through her plans to win over the City. I left the interview with little to report back.“We are looking at everything,” Badenoch told me at the time. “Our policy renewal programme is trying to get us to a place where we refresh the whole of government and the whole system. That requires a lot of work.”A year on, it looks like all that work…

Police are appealing for information after a car was deliberately set on fire on Glenmuir Crescent in Logan, Cumnock, damaging a second vehicle. Source link

Approvals were made for hotels at Callendar Street and Rosemary Street20:18, 17 Jun 2026Callender Street, Belfast, where a new hotel has been approved, Google MapsTwo more new hotels have been approved for Belfast city centre, by the council, despite questions being raised over one of the proposed hotels not having windows in some of its bedrooms.Councillors at the monthly Belfast City Council Planning Committee, held at City Hall on Tuesday evening (June 16), unanimously approved two applications to convert office blocks in the heart of the city to hotels.The first was at the five storey Lindsay House, on Callender Street,…

Whether you’re playing poker against a single opponent or find yourself in a bidding war over a home purchase with another prospective buyer, you are operating under conditions of imperfect information. You know what cards you’re holding in the poker game, and you also know how much above the home’s asking price you can afford, but you don’t know your opponent’s hand in the card game or how high the other home buyer is willing to go. A paper co-authored by MIT researchers and presented in April at the International Conference on Learning Representations in Rio De Janeiro won’t tell you…

Location : The M5 northbound between junctions J6 and J5 . Lane Closures : Lane four is closed. Reason : Road traffic collision. Status : Currently Active. Time To Clear : The event is expected to clear between 22:30 and 22:45 on 17 June 2026. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 23:00 and 23:15 on 17 June 2026. Delay : There are currently delays of 20 minutes against expected traffic. Lanes Closed : There is one of four lanes closed. Source link

Anthropic is joining Frontier, the carbon removal collective, contributing to a new $915 million tranche of funding and marking its arrival as the first AI startup to join the group.  The new funding nearly doubles pledges to Frontier, bringing the total to $1.8 billion. So far, Frontier has contracted nearly $700 million across more than 50 projects to remove 1.8 million tons of carbon. Companies that have pledged money to Frontier typically use the company’s carbon removal credits to reduce their publicly listed carbon footprints. The new funding will help bolster Frontier’s position in the carbon removal industry, but more…

Two US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political aisle are backing a resolution that “under no circumstances should Samuel [SBF] Bankman-Fried receive executive clemency, including a pardon or commutation.”In a resolution to be introduced Wednesday, Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis and Democratic Senator Rubén Gallego warned that should US President Donald Trump grant SBF’s request for a pardon, it would “erase [his] conviction […] weaken deterrence, and send a deeply damaging message that perpetrators of large-scale financial fraud can escape permanent accountability.” The resolution would be non-binding, as a US president’s pardon power is enshrined in the Constitution.“[The US Senate]…

Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers CEO Oliver Cameron and CTO Jeff Hawke, has raised a $310 million Series B round at a $1.45B valuation led by Natural Capital with Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV and others participating. World models are the next big thing in AI beyond text- and chat-based large language models. They gather data from the physical world and simulate it with accurate physics. In Odyssey’s case, it has mimicked how Google Earth gathered data; the startup sent people out with cameras strapped to their backs. (Google drives camera-equipped cars around.) That approach makes sense given the backgrounds…

 What is the Paddy Power Sign Up offer?  Paddy Power’s welcome offer gives new users the chance to get £50 in free Bet Builders from a £10 stake.   Paddy Power 1 (Image: Better Collective) Step-by-Step: How to Claim Your Free Bets  Click through to the official Paddy Power sign-up page.  Fill out your details (name, date of birth, and home address).  Deposit at least £10 using a UK debit card or Apple Pay (avoid e-wallets like PayPal for your first deposit).  Place a £10 cash bet on any World Cup market at odds of 1/2 (1.50) or greater.  Once your…

After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. The new Google Home device is the first standalone smart speaker from the tech giant since the Nest Audio in September 2020. That older device arrived at a time when smart speakers were thought of largely as handy controllers for your smart home and music-playing systems. They lacked the smarts of today’s AI chatbots, as commands often had to be phrased correctly to get…