The State of Tech — The European Edition

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 16 June 2026 Anthropic retires Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, pushes users to new 4.8 generation Morgan Stanley opens trillion-dollar wealth platform to external AI agents China cracks mass production of world's purest silicon for quantum computers Germany launches driverless army convoys with Quantum Systems and Daimler Truck 1Password acquires Apon...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 15 June 2026 Meta cuts eight thousand jobs in AI-driven overhaul Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI across entire pharma operation ShinyHunters exploit critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, hitting over one hundred organisations Tsang Yow opens Malaysian plant as semiconductor supply chains tilt toward Southeast Asia Zettlr: the free, open-source wri...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 14 June 2026 Washington pulls the plug on Anthropic's most powerful AI models over national security concerns OpenAI's GPT-5.5 takes the top spot on the ALE benchmark, edging past Anthropic SpaceX soars on its Nasdaq debut, reaching a two point one trillion dollar valuation Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot starts learning real factory work at Hyundai's...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 13 June 2026 OpenText invests €105 million in Ireland for agentic AI and sovereign cloud DXC Technology partners with Anthropic to bring Claude to banks, airlines and governments US Congress moves to put strict guardrails on AI used for military targeting and planning London Tech Week draws billions in pledges to build out the UK's AI infrastruct...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 12 June 2026 KKR and former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky launch Helix at a ten billion dollar valuation SpaceX prices its Nasdaq IPO under SPCX, raising about seventy-five billion dollars, with trading opening later today EU tech chief warns against US reliance and signs digital partnership with Brazil Nvidia builds AI factory hub in South Korea with SK,...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 11 June 2026 NEURA Robotics raises $1.4 billion to scale cognitive humanoid robots worldwide Xpeng CEO takes personal command of humanoid robot push, targeting mass production by year-end NTT, SK Group and partners launch a $500 million AI fund to back startups across three continents Survey finds AI and cybersecurity threats are driving a sharp...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 10 June 2026 Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, claiming state-of-the-art performance at half the price Broadcom, Apollo and Blackstone launch $35 billion platform for 20 gigawatts of AI compute Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as world's most valuable AI lab at $965 billion Europe's data centre boom collides with the grid as AI infrastru...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 9 June 2026 Apple delays AI Siri in the EU, blaming the Digital Markets Act OpenAI prepares biggest ChatGPT overhaul since 2022 launch Canada launches national AI strategy under Prime Minister Carney TSMC market value more than doubles to 1.4 trillion dollars on AI demand Obsidian: the free note-taking app that keeps your data on your own device u...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 8 June 2026 Nvidia signs sweeping AI deals with SK Hynix, NAVER and Doosan across South Korea ShinyHunters dumps stolen data of 2.6 million people from US dental benefits firm DentaQuest Nvidia partners with China's Unitree to put humanoid robots into research labs worldwide AI app builders let people ship working software from a single sentence, n...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 7 June 2026 AI agent uncovers 21 zero-day flaws in FFmpeg, the library inside almost every video app Apple set to unveil major AI-powered Siri overhaul at WWDC ChatGPT crosses one billion monthly active users Chinese firms tighten grip on optical modules and chips powering global AI World's first AI-designed cancer vaccine enters human clinical tri...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 6 June 2026 Meta pushes facial recognition to smart glasses, raising GDPR alarms across Europe Alphabet raises eighty billion dollars to fund AI infrastructure build-out Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model for laptops IBM commits ten billion dollars to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029 Try it you...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 5 June 2026 Faraday Future humanoid robot starts work at dental clinic reception in Los Angeles AI experts put ten percent chance on catastrophic outcomes within five years China formally accuses the US of breaking the global semiconductor supply chain Global semiconductor equipment billings hit record 36.5 billion dollars in Q1 2026 Quantum comput...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 4 June 2026 Samsung turns the Galaxy Watch into an AI health coach with Vitals, Heart Health Score, and Daily Cardio Load Anthropic confidentially files for a US IPO, the first frontier AI lab to head toward public markets Broadcom posts 10.8 billion dollars in AI chip revenue, up 143 percent, and guides to 16 billion next quarter BYD confirms hu...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 3 June 2026 Trump signs executive order asking AI labs to hand over frontier models before public launch EngineAI opens Shenzhen factory producing a humanoid robot every fifteen minutes Microsoft's AI-designed Majorana 2 quantum chip targets commercial use by 2029 SK Hynix to double memory chip capacity by 2030 as AI supply crunch deepens Gartne...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 2 June 2026 Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark superchip at Computex 2026 US tightens export controls to block Nvidia AI chips reaching China via Malaysia NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, an open foundation model for physical AI and robotics Microsoft Build 2026 puts AI agents and local Windows AI centre stage Tether AI releases...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 1 June 2026 Computex 2026 opens in Taipei with AI Together as the theme, putting Nvidia's Rubin platform and AI agents centre stage STMicroelectronics launches gallium nitride power chips aimed at cutting energy use in AI servers and robots GCHQ director warns AI is being weaponised against critical infrastructure and announces work on an AI cyber...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 31 May 2026 Cyient acquires AI-native engineering firm TAO Digital to strengthen AI and data capabilities SoftBank pledges up to €75 billion for five gigawatts of AI data centres in France EU prepares tech sovereignty package on chips, cloud and AI Companies hit the brakes on AI spending as agent-based billing sends costs soaring Acer launches Aspi...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 30 May 2026 Anthropic closes $65B round, hits $965B valuation and overtakes OpenAI Apple rebuilds Siri on Google Gemini, launching as standalone app in iOS 27 Illinois passes landmark AI safety law requiring audits of frontier AI models Critical BadHost flaw in Starlette framework leaves millions of AI agents exposed CNN sues Perplexity for alleg...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 29 May 2026 Samsung ships world's first HBM4E samples, targeting AMD, Nvidia and Google Japan's megabanks deploy OpenAI and Anthropic models for cyber defence Wiwynn warns AI hardware bottlenecks stretch far beyond memory Data centre component prices hit records as hyperscalers crowd out smaller buyers Claude's project memory cuts the most tedious...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 28 May 2026 KPMG deploys Claude to 276,000 staff as OpenAI launches four-billion-dollar consulting arm Nvidia pledges up to 150 billion dollars a year in Taiwan, calling it the epicentre of AI Amazon greenlights first three children's shows made entirely with generative AI Robotic hand at USC teaches itself a melody by ear in two minutes Rocket O...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 27 May 2026 Big Tech on track to spend nearly $700 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 Huawei introduces Tau Scaling Law as alternative to Moore's Law China expands travel restrictions to top AI researchers at Alibaba and DeepSeek US federal agencies accelerate AI adoption in healthcare and clinical trials Alibaba launches Qwen agentic AI platf...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 26 May 2026 Huawei claims chip breakthrough that could deliver 1.4-nanometer processors without Western lithography by 2031 Google flips the switch and makes its entire search engine run on Gemini AI by default Nvidia's Jensen Huang says China remains essential to a 200-billion-dollar AI chip market AI helps scientists invent entirely new semicond...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 25 May 2026 Telegram launches AI bots that read, filter and reply to your messages Pope Leo XIV publishes first encyclical dedicated to artificial intelligence Anthropic closes $30 billion round at a valuation above $900 billion UK and Australia sign AI security pact to share frontier model research German researchers show ordinary WiFi can identif...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 24 May 2026 Anthropic's Claude Mythos finds 10,000+ critical software bugs, builds working wolfSSL exploit Google AI Studio lets anyone build Android apps without writing code Iranian hackers use fake job offers and infected video apps to spy on aviation and energy firms Trump targets 40-50% of global chip manufacturing on US soil by January 2029 L...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 23 May 2026 AMD invests $10 billion in Taiwan to expand advanced AI chip packaging capacity China assigns ID cards and lifecycle tracking to every humanoid robot OpenAI reasoning model disproves long-standing Erdős mathematical conjecture US and Sweden sign Tech Prosperity Pact covering AI, 5G and 6G Lunar Outpost raises $30 million to build the...