Siri AI Shipped as an App, Intel Jumped 11 Percent, and Check Point Landed on KEV

Tuesday’s Daily Update — twenty-four stories on Monday’s WWDC, a chip-led cash bounce, and a Check Point VPN hole due June 11.

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Apple shipped Siri AI as a dedicated iOS 27 app, Google’s reported 2028 TPU order lifted Intel 11 percent, and CISA put Check Point’s IKEv1 VPN hole on KEV with a Thursday due date.

Siri AI is a dedicated app in the iOS 27 developer betas, with iCloud chat history. It is not on EU iPhone or iPad at the start, and it is not in China. Apple extended Private Cloud Compute onto Google Cloud GPUs.
S&P closed 7,405.73 (+0.3%) and Nasdaq 25,929.66 (+0.9%); the Dow slipped to 50,786.01 (−0.2%). Intel jumped 11.2% on a reported Google order of more than three million TPUs for 2028.
Brent settled $94.25 and WTI $91.30 after paring Sunday night’s ~$97/$94 spike. Flex’s 5% Chase Travel still does not pay an MSG walk-up.
CISA added Check Point CVE-2026-50751 (IKEv1 auth bypass, due June 11) and BerriAI LiteLLM CVE-2026-42271. Qilin was already on the deprecated path.
Spurs 115–111 at MSG, Wembanyama 32, Brunson 32; series Knicks 2–1. Trump called for restraint after Sunday’s missiles; the paper is still not a calendar.
WWDC was a Siri show with no new iPhone. Parental controls are a settings pane, not a clinic. iCloud will sync the Siri chat a household has to police.

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