The top things worth knowing about in AI today.
At its developer conference on 8 June, Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri that can draw on your own messages, emails and photos to answer questions and act across apps, running on-device and through Private Cloud Compute. A new standalone Siri app keeps conversation history in sync across iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro. After two years of delays, it is Apple's clearest attempt yet to make the assistant useful for daily work rather than timers and weather.
Read moreNHS England will roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff after a trial across 90 organisations and more than 30,000 workers found it saved an average of 43 minutes per person each day. Full deployment is expected by October, with the agency estimating up to 400,000 staff hours saved per month. It is one of the largest AI deployments in healthcare so far, and a useful benchmark for any large organisation weighing the same move.
Read moreOpenAI says Oracle Cloud customers will soon be able to put their existing Oracle Universal Credits toward OpenAI models and the Codex coding agent, accessed through Oracle's own infrastructure. The arrangement removes a common procurement hurdle by letting companies buy AI under contracts they already hold. For large buyers already committed to Oracle, it is one less vendor relationship to set up.
Read moreMeta has cut the Chinese-founded agentic AI startup Manus off from its internal systems and stopped sharing data, beginning to unwind a $2 billion acquisition that Chinese regulators ordered reversed in April. Staff have been told to move off the Manus platform, which is being shut down, while Manus's founders look to raise about $1 billion to buy the company back. It is a reminder of how cross-border AI deals can stall between US and Chinese regulators, a risk worth noting for any firm operating in both markets.
Read moreChatGPT held about 54.7% of global AI chatbot web visits in April, down from roughly 76.5% in early 2025, according to Similarweb. Google's Gemini has climbed to 27.4% and Anthropic's Claude to 8.2%, with Claude up around 306% in a single quarter. The market for assistants is no longer a one-horse race, which makes committing to a single provider a less obvious call than it was a year ago.
Read moreThe first new mandatory requirement under Australia's updated Policy for the Responsible Use of AI in Government takes effect on 15 June, part of a version 2.0 policy that began rolling out in December. Agencies must work toward formal AI impact assessments for in-scope use cases, with full compliance due by December. There are no criminal penalties for non-compliance, but it can mean disciplinary action or procurement ineligibility, so departments and their suppliers will want their governance in order.
Read moreSupabase, which provides an open-source backend platform widely used by developers and AI app builders, has raised $500 million in a round led by GIC that values it at $10.5 billion. The six-year-old company has ridden the surge in people building applications on top of AI models. It is a sign of where investor money is going: not only the model labs, but the tools built around them.
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