The State of Tech — The European Edition

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 22 May 2026 IBM lands one billion dollars to build America's first quantum chip factory in New York Global AI investment projected to hit one trillion dollars in 2026, lifting world growth Israeli military launches Alumot, a new AI and cyber division built for the battlefield China's AI boom rewrites the graduate job market and raises the bar on wo...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 21 May 2026 Meta cuts eight thousand jobs to fund AI push Alibaba launches full AI stack with homegrown chips and new model New scaling law method could save millions on frontier AI training Samsung averts massive seventy-thousand-worker chip strike at the last minute HSBC and Standard Chartered tell staff to embrace AI as banking jobs reshape Sp...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 20 May 2026 Google unveils autonomous AI agents and new Gemini model at I/O 2026 Trump administration weighs executive order to vet powerful AI models before release KPMG taps Anthropic to rebuild global tax advisory platforms with Claude Court closes Musk versus OpenAI lawsuit after years of legal battle Malta becomes first country to offer Cha...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 19 May 2026 Dell and NVIDIA launch desk-side agentic AI for local, cloud-free autonomous workflows Google unveils Gemini 4.0 at I/O 2026 with cross-app autonomous task handling for Android Anthropic briefs G20 financial regulators on cybersecurity risks from Claude Mythos South Korean court orders Samsung union to keep chip lines running during pl...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 18 May 2026 Australia's CSIRO launches Vetra, a new edge AI system that lets robots learn in real time without the cloud UN digital envoy warns AI power is concentrated in a handful of zip codes and threatens climate goals The United States earmarks $54 billion for military AI and autonomous weapons The Vatican sets up a new AI commission under Pop...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 17 May 2026 Brussels delays AI Act enforcement, pushing high-risk rules to December 2027 Stanford study finds AI chatbots deepen confirmation bias across all user types Seven in ten Americans oppose AI data centres in their local communities Li Auto launches the L9, claiming embodied AI first for a consumer car A free prompt template that turns any...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 16 May 2026 US and China open formal AI safety talks after Trump-Xi summit in Beijing OpenAI hires law firm to explore legal action against Apple as ChatGPT-Siri deal unravels UK regulators warn AI-powered cyberattacks already outpace human experts in finance Samsung strike fears rattle Apple and HP as chip supply hangs in the balance Vivaldi bro...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 15 May 2026 Nvidia's Jensen Huang lands in Beijing as H200 chip deliveries to China stall OpenAI staff set for 6.6 billion dollar secondary share sale China's Jiuzhang 4.0 claims quantum speed-up of 10 to the power 54 UK AI Safety Institute warns autonomous AI hacking is improving faster than expected Google rebuilds Gboard's microphone with Gemini...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 14 May 2026 Frontier AI models smash cyber attack benchmarks, regulators warn of new threat to critical infrastructure Recursive Superintelligence launches with 650 million dollars to build AI that improves itself OpenAI launches Daybreak to put AI on the defensive side of cybersecurity Rivian CEO's new startup Mind Robotics raises 400 million to...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 13 May 2026 South Korean startup RLWRLD builds universal AI robot brains by recording master craftsmen's skills Korean official proposes taxing AI excess profits as a national dividend for society Europe's JUPITER supercomputer breaks world record simulating a 50-qubit quantum machine Appian integrates spec-driven AI development and agentic auto...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 12 May 2026 US and China reopen emergency AI hotline over fears of a frontier model breakthrough Microsoft launches three in-house AI models to challenge OpenAI and Google Kuaishou explores $20 billion spin-off and IPO for its Kling AI video unit SMIC wins approval for $5.9 billion deal, China's largest ever chip foundry merger European startup el...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 11 May 2026 Alphabet poised to overtake Nvidia as the world's most valuable company on AI dominance Big Tech to spend $755 billion on AI in 2026, cutting buybacks by two-thirds Apple agrees to $250 million settlement over undelivered Siri AI features Japan opens unmanned lab where ten robots run medical experiments around the clock Egrobots launche...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 10 May 2026 China unveils Hanyuan-2: world's first dual-core quantum computer with 200 qubits Apple to allow ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude as third-party AI alternatives Large language models cut preoperative anxiety in cancer patients, study shows Taiwan enters global top 20 for AI adoption, overtaking the US and Germany Philippines courts UAE invest...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 9 May 2026 Samsung and Meta race to commercialise AI-powered humanoid robots Abu Dhabi startup TACTICA AI launches agentic platform for mission-critical decisions Oracle Cloud adds xAI Grok 4.3 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni to enterprise AI platform Global cyberattack knocks Canvas offline, disrupting nearly nine thousand schools and universiti...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 8 May 2026 Microsoft report: Global AI adoption gap widens, UAE leads at 70.1%, Global South lags at 15.4% Chip manufacturing race becomes geopolitical: US, Asia, Europe pour billions into fabs & data centres IMF flags AI-powered cyberattacks as inevitable threat to global financial stability NVIDIA & IREN partner on five-gigawatt AI infrastructure...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 7 May 2026 Microsoft weighs walking back its 2030 renewable energy pledge as AI data centres outpace green supply Wall Street semiconductor rally sends AMD up 19% as AI spending drives valuations to historic highs UK-led OpenBind initiative releases open AI model and dataset to accelerate global drug discovery XBOW raises $35 million to fight AI-...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 6 May 2026 Google, Microsoft and xAI give US government pre-deployment access to frontier AI models European MEPs demand urgent cybersecurity action after Mythos hacking revelations Vanguard repurposes Singapore fab to produce AI interposers using TSMC technology Google engineer wins four US patents for AI data centre power resilience NAND flash...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 5 May 2026 Trump White House weighs formal pre-release review for frontier AI models Brussels in urgent talks with Anthropic to secure European access to Mythos Harvard study in Science finds OpenAI's o1-preview beats ER doctors on diagnostic accuracy Virginia Tech researchers warn no image online is safe from generative AI manipulation Lattice Se...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 4 May 2026 Global AI spending hits two and a half trillion dollars in 2026, eclipsing the entire previous decade EU AI Act enforcement begins August 2026 with red-team testing, risk classification and major fines Apple drops net cash neutral policy after fifteen years, freeing balance sheet for AI push under Ternus Applied Materials acquires NEXX t...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 3 May 2026 Google closes in on Nvidia as AI value shifts from chips to platforms China exports its AI governance playbook to Southeast Asia Armenia launches a four billion dollar AI mega-hub with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs TSMC delays High-NA EUV adoption until 2029 while expanding Arizona packaging Energy and utility firms cash in as AI's power demand...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 2 May 2026 Pentagon signs classified AI deals with seven tech giants, freezes Anthropic out over weapons dispute EU AI Omnibus enters trilogue as Brussels reshapes its digital rulebook China bets its industrial future on embodied AI and humanoid robots US considers cutting patch deadlines from two weeks to three days as AI hackers accelerate Sout...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 1 May 2026 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub launches $500M Virtual Biology Initiative to simulate life with AI Mayo Clinic AI detects pancreatic cancer up to three years before diagnosis Nvidia targets full enterprise AI stack with Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Samsung chip division posts 48-fold profit surge, warns of memory crunch into 2027 US FCC unanimously votes...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 30 April 2026 Meta lifts 2026 capex to $145 billion, shares plunge as investors question AI returns SoftBank plans $100 billion US listing for new AI and robotics venture called Roze EU AI Act enforcement begins August 2026 as US states roll out their own AI laws OpenAI reportedly building an AI agent smartphone for 2028 with MediaTek and Qualcom...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 29 April 2026 OpenAI misses revenue targets, expands AWS partnership as AI stocks slide Meta commits $115-135 billion to AI infrastructure in 2026, locks in nuclear power Google rethinks Gemini, removing voice features for proactive AI experience Japan Airlines deploys humanoid robots at Haneda Airport for cargo handling DeepSeek launches V4 Fla...

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 28 April 2026 China blocks Meta's Manus acquisition, restricts co-founders from leaving Taiwan court sentences engineer to 10 years for TSMC trade secret theft OpenAI and Microsoft end exclusivity deal, models freed to other clouds Anthropic finds weaker AI agents quietly lose negotiations unnoticed KPMG: governments plan AI scale but trapped in p...