The State of Tech — The European Edition

Accenture Buys Dragos: OT Security Reshaped

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Today at 12:41 AM

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 warns organisations about shadow AI in the workplace Bitwarden: the free, open-source password manager that works on every device you own

Fable 5 Export Ban: Cybersecurity Leaders Push Back

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Yesterday at 12:38 AM

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 the free, private notes app that builds your own personal knowledge base Flighty turns your phone into a travel command centre that knows about delays before the airline tells you

G7 AI Access Framework: What It Means for Europe

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Last Wednesday at 12:40 AM

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-powered focus app that makes distraction deliberately annoying Darktable's major update brings AI masking to free, open-source photo editing

China Silicon-28 mass production: quantum chips shift

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Last Tuesday at 2:10 AM

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 Apono to eliminate dormant access rights across your organisation Snap unveils sixth-generation Specs AR glasses with built-in AI and privacy focus

Novo Nordisk + OpenAI: EU pharma's AI sovereignty bet

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Last Monday at 2:11 AM

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 writing app that keeps your work on your own machine Wanderlog: the free travel planner that puts flights, hotels, and maps in one place

Anthropic Export Ban: Europe's AI Access at Risk

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Last Sunday at 2:10 AM

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 Savannah plant Longevity scientist David Sinclair plans to test whole-body rejuvenation drugs in the XPRIZE Healthspan competition A KPMG report full of AI hallucinations shows why tools like Originality dot AI matter for everyday users

Sovereign Cloud Expands in EU: OpenText €105M Ireland

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Last Saturday at 2:09 AM

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 infrastructure Meta donates Ray-Ban smart glasses to blind US veterans, showcasing AI as a daily accessibility tool Google's AI Essentials course offers a free, beginner-friendly way to get to grips with generative AI

Helix AI Infrastructure: KKR & Selipsky's $10B Bet

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06/12/2026

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, LG, Naver, and Doosan Obsidian: a free, private note-taking app that links your notes into a personal knowledge web South Korea deploys Hyundai AI firefighting robots; Skydio drones enter European emergency services

NEURA Robotics $1.4B Round: Europe's Physical AI Bet

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06/11/2026

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 rise in US corporate lawsuits Coremail's AI-native email system turns the inbox into a connected workspace for businesses BostonGene presents an AI tool that helps match cancer patients to the right immunotherapy

Claude Fable 5 Cuts AI Costs: Europe's Infrastructure Gap

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06/10/2026

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 infrastructure deals grow Claude Code turns your laptop into a pair-programming partner that builds whole features autonomously PhotoPrism organises decades of photos on your own server, no cloud subscription needed

Apple Delays AI Siri in EU: DMA Blocks iOS 27 Feature

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06/09/2026

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 uBlock Origin: the free browser extension that blocks ads and scam pages

Nvidia Korea AI Deals: SK Hynix, NAVER & Doosan

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06/08/2026

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, no coding required Bolt lets you build and launch a real web app this afternoon, just by describing it NVIDIA Isaac Lab lets anyone train a virtual robot on a normal computer, for free

AI agent finds 21 FFmpeg zero-days: Europe's open-source risk

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06/07/2026

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 trials Try today: Ginkgo Bioworks' autonomous lab platform and Apple Wallet's scan-to-add feature

Gemma 4 12B: Free Local AI Model for Your Laptop

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06/06/2026

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 yourself: Gemma 4 12B runs free and offline on your laptop via Ollama Amazon's Proteus robot takes plain-English instructions, coming to European warehouses in 2027

AI Catastrophe Risk: Experts Put Odds at 10% by 2031

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06/05/2026

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 computing company Quantinuum prices upsized IPO, starts trading on Nasdaq under QNT SpaceX flags water scarcity as critical risk for AI data centre expansion

Anthropic IPO Filing: First Frontier AI Lab Goes Public

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06/04/2026

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 humanoid robot development and considers selling them through its car dealer network Samsung Health's Daily Cardio Load brings premium training guidance to existing Galaxy Watch users for free LUYTEN's Ascend converts standard tower cranes...

Frontier AI Executive Order: Europe's Parallel Review Risk

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06/03/2026

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 Gartner's TRiSM framework offers a free checklist for spotting AI security gaps Intel's rackscale AI infrastructure lets companies run AI agents in their own data centre

Nvidia China Export Controls: EU Impact Explained

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06/02/2026

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 open-source TurboQuant SDK to run large AI models on your own device VinDynamics debuts Dyno humanoid robot at ICRA in Vienna and Computex Taipei

GCHQ AI Cyber Warning: Europe's Critical Infrastructure at Risk

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06/01/2026

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 shield Dell posts record AI server revenue of $16.1 billion, up 757% year on year, helping push the Nasdaq 100 above 30,000 Meta officially rolls out paid ad-free subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, with AI features for subscribers Spotify...

EU Tech Sovereignty Package: Cloud, Chips & AI Rules

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05/31/2026

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 Aspire AI laptops at Computex with on-device Intel AI chips Specialised AI beats giant models for niche work, and you can apply that idea today

Starlette BadHost Flaw Exposes Millions of AI Agents

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05/30/2026

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 allegedly copying and serving paywalled articles verbatim Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during ground test at Cape Canaveral

Samsung HBM4E Samples: AI Memory Race Shifts in 2026

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05/29/2026

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 part of working with AI Proton Docs brings end-to-end encrypted collaboration to browsers and mobile

KPMG Claude Rollout: OpenAI Enters Consulting

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05/28/2026

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 One lists on Nasdaq with nanomagnetic AI chips built for satellites and space Laser powers moving warehouse robot for twenty-four hours straight, no battery swap needed

Huawei Tau Scaling Law: China's Answer to ASML Sanctions

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05/27/2026

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 platform and opens it to global developers Ransomware attacks on connected cars more than double, with AI accelerating the threat

Huawei LogicFolding: 1.4nm chips without ASML by 2031

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05/26/2026

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 semiconductor materials, slashing R&D time dramatically New software platform helps companies turn idle AI computers into paying cloud services A tiny new edge AI computer brings smart vision and object recognition to everyday devices

WiFi Identifies People Through Walls: EU Privacy Alert

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05/25/2026

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 identify people through walls Telegram trick turns AI bots into a personal news filter in ten minutes

Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 Critical Software Bugs

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05/24/2026

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 LG's Cloid home robot prepares breakfast, signals where consumer robotics is heading UAE's mainframe-to-AI overhaul offers a free blueprint for European public sector teams

AMD $10B Taiwan Packaging Bet: AI Chip Supply Shifts

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05/23/2026

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 moon's first permanent structures with robots South Korea's HL Mando targets Tesla Optimus actuator supply chain

IBM Quantum Chip Factory: $1B CHIPS Act Deal Explained

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05/22/2026

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 workforce skills SpaceX retries inaugural Starship V3 launch after last-second scrub Run a private AI assistant on your own laptop this weekend with LM Studio

Alibaba AI Stack: New Model, Chips & Servers Explained

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05/21/2026

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 Spotify verifies podcasts and Western Digital ships quantum-proof hard drives

AI Model Vetting: US Moves Toward Mandatory Checks

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05/20/2026

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 ChatGPT Plus to all its citizens Google and Harvard release open AI tool that writes and optimises scientific code

Dell NVIDIA agentic AI on-premises: EU data sovereignty win

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05/19/2026

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 planned strike Korean startup RLWRLD films master craftsmen to teach robots human-level dexterity WIZ.AI launches Wizlynn, a voice AI for customer service that handles real conversations

Edge AI for Factories: Australia's Vetra Explained

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05/18/2026

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 Pope Leo XIV Nvidia releases free open-source AI tools called Ising to help quantum computers actually work Humanoid robot PEMBA is being prepared to climb Mount Everest, prompting Nepal to draft...

AI Act Delay 2027: What It Means for European Tech

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05/17/2026

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 chatbot into a devil's advocate Organic Maps update brings proper offline hiking routes across Europe

US-China AI Safety Talks: What Europe Loses

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05/16/2026

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 browser ships free built-in focus mode, no extension needed The critique-and-revise prompt trick that sharpens ChatGPT and Claude answers

UK AI Cyberattack Benchmarks: Autonomous Hacking Accelerates

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05/15/2026

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 for smarter dictation WhatsApp launches Incognito Chat with Meta AI, promising no history or training data

AI cyber attack benchmarks broken: Europe's NIS2 challenge

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05/14/2026

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 put AI robots on factory floors Kyoto researchers crack a quantum puzzle, with implications for future quantum networks OpenAI floats a global AI governance body, with both the US and China at the table

RLWRLD Robot AI: Korea Captures Craftsmen Skills

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05/13/2026

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 automation into enterprise platform UN urges cities to embrace AI-enabled citiverse for smarter, more resilient urban living Unitree unveils GD01, a production-ready manned mecha priced at $650,000

US-China AI Hotline: Europe Watches from the Sidelines

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05/12/2026

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 eleQtron opens cloud access to quantum computers after €57M raise Japan's diamond chip startups move from prototype to factory, targeting European industry

Big Tech $755B AI Spend Cuts Shareholder Returns

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05/11/2026

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 launches the Arab world's first fully autonomous agricultural harvesting robot Faraday Future pivots to physical AI with humanoid robots and a 2026 shipping target