The State of Tech — The European Edition

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 11 July 2026 Bank of England sounds the alarm on AI risks in finance White House pledges over two billion dollars for quantum computing Chinese robotics maker AI² raises 735 million for wheeled humanoids ASUS and Dell push fresh wave of AI PCs and workstations KeePassXC: the free open-source password manager that keeps your vault off the cloud No...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 10 July 2026 China accuses Anthropic of hiding a backdoor in Claude Code Micron commits three billion dollars to the American chip supply chain US lawmakers introduce the People-First Chatbot Act Google claims a quantum error correction breakthrough Session: the anonymous messenger that needs no phone number or email Homarr: the free self-hosted da...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 9 July 2026 OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 series Sol, Terra and Luna as xAI releases Grok 4.5 on the same day US chip industry faces shortfall of 157,000 skilled workers by 2030 Keeper Security crosses $225 million in recurring revenue as AI agents multiply non-human identities Google launches Gemini for Science to accelerate research in biology, medic...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 8 July 2026 Global banking regulators warn frontier AI can launch autonomous multi-stage cyberattacks on financial systems Samsung's record $58B profit spooks chip stocks as AI capex doubts grow Taiwan turns to Indonesia for green power to fuel its AI and chip boom US launches Project Triad to fuse quantum sensing, networking, and computing into...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 7 July 2026 Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs to fund a record 190 billion dollar AI and data centre push SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100 as the first company under new fast-track IPO rules UN Secretary-General demands global AI controls, environmental transparency, and action on autonomous weapons AI writing tools inject political bias and can reverse user m...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 6 July 2026 United Nations opens first global AI governance dialogue in Geneva as scientists warn capabilities are outrunning oversight Samsung set to overtake Nvidia as world's most profitable tech company on AI memory demand Micron breaks ground on 9.3 billion dollar memory factory in Hiroshima with heavy Japanese state support Tesla caps employe...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 5 July 2026 OpenAI proposes handing the US government a five percent equity stake worth over forty billion dollars Qualcomm challenges Nvidia with new AI inference chips that skip high bandwidth memory Anthropic launches Claude Science and starts its own preclinical drug discovery programme Nvidia introduces AI Factories, a revenue-sharing model to...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 4 July 2026 India opens its first major chip packaging plant in Gujarat Palantir pushes AI deeper into US national security and military targeting European Commission proposes Cloud and AI Development Act South Korea's FASSTO Robotics raises pre-IPO funding for warehouse automation Krita: the free, open-source digital painting app from a Dutch no...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 3 July 2026 AI data centres gobble up 70% of global memory chips, pushing consumer device prices higher Meta considers selling surplus AI computing power, sparking overinvestment fears Local resistance to data centres emerges as a real brake on US AI ambitions Infineon opens €5 billion Smart Power Fab in Dresden, three months ahead of schedule Tuta...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 2 July 2026 Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 back online worldwide after nineteen-day US export control blackout UN panel warns AI is outrunning governments and widening the gap between rich and poor countries Power semiconductor prices surge as AI, electric vehicles, and energy storage strain global supply AI hunts zero-day flaws faster than defenders...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 1 July 2026 Google rebuilds search around AI-generated summaries powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash AWS commits four billion dollars to bring AI into the US public sector OpenAI unveils its first custom AI chip, called Jalapeño, alongside GPT-5 details Taiwanese executives arrested in twenty-two million dollar Nvidia chip smuggling case NASA launches r...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 30 June 2026 South Korea commits 1.2 trillion dollars to chips, AI and robotics OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 family with agentic capabilities and safety controls Nvidia's China AI chip share drops to 8% as Huawei hits 50% Humanoid robot parts maker Laifual Drive lists in Hong Kong Manuskript: free open-source writing app for long projects Mullvad Brows...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 29 June 2026 European Parliament rewrites the AI Act: high-risk deadlines extended, deepfake abuse tools banned outright China retakes the supercomputing crown with a fully homegrown machine, ending nearly a decade of US dominance Bank for International Settlements warns the AI investment boom could end in a global economic bust WIRobotics opens it...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 28 June 2026 US government partially unlocks Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 for select cybersecurity firms ON Semiconductor acquires Synaptics in major edge-computing chip deal European Commission opens consultation on AI Act transparency rules ahead of August deadline AI companies spending three dollars for every dollar earned, raising profitability...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 27 June 2026 US government restricts access to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in first-ever pre-launch frontier model review Anthropic accuses Alibaba-linked operators of largest AI distillation attack in history: 28.8 million exchanges Google loses Nobel laureate John Jumper and three senior AI researchers to Anthropic in one week, Alphabet drops $270 bil...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 26 June 2026 Chinese startup Z.AI breaks into global AI top three with open-source model eight times cheaper than Anthropic IBM unveils world's first sub-one-nanometer chip, says Moore's Law has another decade ahead Qualcomm doubles down on AI data centres, signs Microsoft and Meta, acquires software startup Modular Wikipedia permanently bans co-fo...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 25 June 2026 Netherlands joins US Pax Silica chip alliance but fights MATCH Act over ASML's China business Oracle blames AI for 21,000 job cuts, warns more could follow SK Hynix files $29 billion New York listing to ride AI memory boom World Economic Forum: AI is moving off the screen and into power grids, factories, and farms GIMP: the free, ope...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 24 June 2026 Global tech and AI stocks tumble as investors question returns on massive AI spending OpenAI and Anthropic take first steps toward public stock market listings Samsung unveils world's fastest mobile storage chip to power on-device AI SpaceX shares drop 16% after reports of large bond sale to fund AI ambitions Standard Notes: end-to-...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 23 June 2026 White House sets voluntary pre-release review for frontier AI models US executive order backs quantum computing with five-year sensor deadline China commits $295 billion to domestic AI infrastructure built on Huawei chips ASML, TSMC and imec demonstrate two-dimensional transistors on production wafers DeArrow replaces YouTube clickbai...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 22 June 2026 Nobel Prize winner John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic Santander rolls out AI to all 185,000 employees, targets €1B+ in value AI bosses get head-of-state treatment at the G7 summit in France Marvell stock jumps 7% on reports Amazon may sell Trainium chips externally Flow: browser-based 3D creation tool from German startup,...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 21 June 2026 VivaTech 2026 closes with 200,000 visitors as Paris stakes its claim in the global AI race Taiwan's memory chip designers brace for a 245% revenue jump as AI data centres devour supply The Philippines fast-tracks incentives to lure semiconductor and AI investment California admits to running six high-risk AI systems on its own resident...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 20 June 2026 Hyundai buys out SoftBank to take full ownership of Boston Dynamics for 325 million dollars Meta signs deals with Crusoe for 1.6 gigawatts of AI computing capacity in Texas and Missouri Critical Splunk Enterprise flaw actively exploited, CISA orders emergency patching UK opens AI sandbox to test artificial intelligence tools for drug...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 19 June 2026 Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 after six-day US government shutdown Accenture acquires Dragos, runZero, and NetRise in major critical infrastructure security push OpenAI claims breakthrough in AI-powered drug discovery QuantumScape and Honda sign multi-year solid-state battery research agreement European Data Protection Supervisor w...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 18 June 2026 AI bots now generate more web traffic than humans, Cloudflare data shows Top cybersecurity leaders urge Washington to reverse the Anthropic Fable 5 export ban China invites the world to Shanghai for a high-level AI governance meeting Nokia expands US chip packaging to wire up the AI boom, adding 250 jobs in Pennsylvania AnyType is th...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 17 June 2026 G7 weighs giving trusted partner countries access to America's most advanced AI models Major European cloud outage exposes concentration risk across borders ESA and EU pour six billion euros into independent European launch capacity Deepfake voice fraud hits European bank customers, regulators push for faster response Opal: the AI-p...